Kanner Fellows in British Studies

2024–25
Toby Yuen-Gen Liang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
“Where was northwest Africa/Africans in the Age of Exploration: British perspectives from the Clark Library collection”

Elisabeth Claire Rivard, University of Virginia
“‘Let him learn the Art of Design’: The Promise of Professional Drawing in mid-Eighteenth-century Britain”

2023–24
Nathaniel Philip Likert, Grinnell College
“Botany of the Mind: Character and Experience in Early Modern England”

Lisa Ann Robertson, University of South Dakota
“Religious Dissent and the Proliferation of British Romantic Science”

2022–23
Unita Ahdifard, University of California, Santa Barbara
“’The Wings of Inclination’: The Anglo-Persianate Realm in Women’s Travel Narratives and the Travelling Imaginary, 1750-1850″

Anhiti Patnaik, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
“Trials of Wilde and Manto: Witnessing Crime, Empire, and Censorship”

2020–21
Morton Wan, Cornell University
Music and Money: Handel and the Networked Economies of Musical Life in the Eighteenth Century

2019–20
Mackenzie B. Gregg, University of California, Riverside
“Plagues that Fascinate:” Leprosy, Sexuality, and Victorian Decadence”

2018–19
Hannah Jeans, University of York
“Women, Letters and News Cultures in Seventeenth-Century England”

2017–18
Elisabeth B. Gernerd, University of Edinburgh
“Tetes to Tails: Eighteenth-Century Underwear and Accessories”

2016–17
Samuel C. Fullerton, University of California, Riverside
“’That Diabolical Contagion:’ The Pamphlet Wars and the British Revolution, 1647–1653″

Sean Thomas O’Neil, Columbia University
“Technicians of the Sign: The Practice of Semiotics in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1750”

2014–15
Julia K. Callander, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Plagiarist, the Sodomite, and the Cannibal: Authorship and the History of Sexuality, 1740–1820”

Heather Marcovitch, Red Deer College
“Harland, D’Arcy, Beardsley: Authorship and Editorship at The Yellow Book”

2013–14
Bethany Cencer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
“Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Partsong Societies”

Diana Solomon, Simon Fraser University
“The Repetition of Comedy in Long-Eighteenth-Century British Theater”

2012–13
Toni Bowers, University of Pennsylvania
“The Seduction of Scotland: Sexual Metaphors and the Union Debate, 1705–1707”

Brendan Gillis, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Conduits of Justice: Law, Local Government, and the State in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

2011–12
John Collins, University of Virginia
“So That His Word Is a Law: Martial Law in English Dominions, 1550–1700”

Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex
“Priest of Nature: The Political Theology of Isaac Newton”

2010–11
Sören Hammerschmidt, University of Edinburgh
“Augustan Heads and August Characters”

2009–10
Renee Fox, Princeton University
“Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation, History, and Political Aesthetics”

2008–09
Nedda Mehdizadeh, George Washington University
“East of Eden: Early Modern Fantasies of Persia”

2007–08
Derya Gurses Tarbuck
“Nine Muses of Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century: New Approaches to Enlightenment Sociabilities”

Amit Yahav-Brown, University of Haifa
“Moments; or Time and the Novel”