2026-2027 Award Recipients

Fellowships

Emily Deal, University of East Anglia, Exploring the shared network between Mary, Lady Hervey, (1699-1769) and Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in the collections of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut

Meghan Kobza, Newcastle University, Georgian Bath: A Circus of Characters, Roger W. Eddy Fellowship

Jia Liu, University of Exeter, Transnational Visual Politics: Satirical Imagery and Print Culture between Britain and Late Qing China, George B. Cooper Fellowship

Mark Tschaepe, Prairie View A&M University, Noisy Bodies against Normative Pressures: The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine (1770-1774) as Technology of Self, Charles J. Cole Fellowship

Charlotte Vallis, University of York, Mothers of the Fatherland: gender, identity and power in the reigns of Elizaveta Petrovna, 1741-1761, and Catherine II, 1762-1796

Pierre Von-Ow, University of St. Andrews, ‘Other Imaginations’: Nicholas Saunderson’s Lectures on Optics and the Rainbow, ASECS-LWL Fellowship

Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia, Walpole-A Life in Ten Letters

James Wood, University of East Anglia, Horace Walpole and the Fragility of Paper

Deepali Yadav, Banaras Hindu University, Expanding the colonial archive: Illustrating the homes of English officers in India

Travel Grants

Liza Blake, University of Toronto, Margaret Cavendish’s Books: Feminist Bibliography and Critical Editing

Benjamin Casey, Maynooth University, Picturing the Irish professions, 1760—1830

Kyung Seo Chung, Tufts University, Animating London: It-Narratives, Nonhuman Voices, and Urban Agency in the Eighteenth Century

Cameron Kline, Syracuse University, Improvisation and Empire: Indigenous Diplomacy, Colonial Governance, and the Albany Conferences, 1745–1754

Alexandra Langer, John Hopkins University, ‘Devils clear the Way’: An Expansive History of the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765

William Levine, Middle Tennessee State University, Patronage, Whig Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Panegyrics during George Townshend’s Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland

Chloe Northrop, Tarrant County College, Sea-Daddy: Shifting Tides of Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century British Naval Figures

Claire Ó Nualláin, Courtauld Institute of Art, Antiquarianism, the Fine Arts and Protestant Identity in Eighteenth Century Ireland

John Plunkett, University Exeter, Peeping, Pictures and Printsellers: The Evolution of the Show-Box

Michelle Reynolds, Independent Scholar, Women Illustrators in the Lewis Walpole Library