In 2005, The Historic New Orleans Collection initiated an annual fellowship to support scholarly research and promote the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South. Following are the previous fellowship recipients:
2006
Jessica Lepler
Doctoral Candidate, Brandeis University
“1837: Anatomy of a Panic”
Greg O’Brien
Associate Professor of History,
University of Southern Mississippi
“The Man Who Saved New Orleans: George Towers Dunbar and
the New Orleans Flood of 1849”
2007
Nathalie Dessens
University of Toulouse – Le Mirail
“Jean Boze, Chronicler of New Orleans”
Vanessa Mongey
University of Pennsylvania
“Cosmopolitan Republics: The Gulf South between 1783 and 1836”
Gautham Rao
University of Chicago
“Visible Hands: Customhouses, the National Market, and Federal Power in Antebellum America”
2008
Marise Bachand, Doctoral Candidate, History
University of Western Ontario
“Plantation Women and the Urban South, 1790–1860”
Patricia Behre, Associate Professor of History
Fairfield University
“Citizens of the World: Sephardic Jews in Early Louisiana”
Shelene Roumillat, Doctoral Candidate, History
Tulane University
“The Battle of New Orleans: New Perspectives on an Epic Confrontation”
2009
Dr. Victor George Hobson, University of East Anglia
“The Frederic Ramsey Jr. Papers”
Dr. Alecia Long, Louisiana State University
“’There is an Abiding Air of Fantasy Here’: New Orleans Culture in the 1960s”
Ms. Courtney Rivard, Doctoral Candidate, University of California at Santa Cruz
“Contested Memories and New Terrains: a Comparative Study of the Production of Cultural Memories Surrounding September 11 and Hurricane Katrina”
Dr. Gillian Rodger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The Stage and the City: Exploring New Orleans through its Theatrical World, 1840–1860”
2010
Emily Clark
Associate Professor, History, Tulane
University
"The Strange History of the American Quadroon"
John M. Huffman
PhD candidate, History, Harvard
University
"Americans on Paper: Documents and Identity in the Early United
States"
Suzanne Rivecca
Fiction writer, San Francisco
"The
Habitants: A Novel of Walt Whitman in New Orleans"
2011
Andrew F. Lang
Rice University
PhD candidate,
History
“Monotony, Misery, and Mutiny: The Culture of Garrison Service during
the Civil War”
James Schissel
University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
PhD candidate, Landscape Architecture
“Home Grown: Thomas
Affleck’s Advocacy for Regional Identity in the American South, 1848-1868”
The Historic New Orleans Collection gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Dianne Audrey Woest (1935-2003). Through a planned giving arrangement, Woest designated The Collection as a beneficiary of her estate.
