2012-2013 EMSI Fellowship Awards

It is with great enthusiasm that the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute announces the recipients of our 2012-2013 Fellowship Awards.

EMSI Faculty Fellowships

Daniela Bleichmar, Associate Professor of Art History and HistoryProject title: Collecting the World: Latin American Nature and Art in Global Circulation, 1492–1820

Karen Halttunen, Professor of History
Project title: New England Groundwork: Nature, History, and Local Place, 1790-1860

Rebecca Lemon, Associate Professor of English
Project Title: Addiction in Early Modern England


EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships

Justin Clark, Department of History
Project title: “Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870”

Penelope Geng, Department of English
Project title: “Popular Jurisprudence in Early Modern Literature”

EMSI Summer Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships

Meghan Davis Mercer, Department of English
Project title: “Slow Reading in Elizabethan England: Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare”

Matthew Smith, Department of English
Project title: “Grounds of Belief: The Appearance of Religion in Renaissance Performance”


EMSI Summer Teaching Fellowships

Ellen Dooley, Department of Art History
Tutorial title: “How to Die in Early Modern Europe”

Nicholas Gliserman, Department of History
Tutorial title:  "Violence in Colonial North America"