Past Grant Winners

2026 (Jan-May)

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Hannah Blanning, 鈥淐onduits and Interpreters of Idealist Spinozian Ethics: Henry Crabb Robinson and Germaine de Sta毛l in Germany.鈥
Conference Travel Grants
  • Taylor Moss, 鈥淐olonial Currents and Fragile Ecosystems: Dhara Rivera鈥檚 R铆o y Respiro,鈥 Annual Conference of Association for Art History, University of Cambridge, 8鈥10 April 2026.听
  • Stone Neilon, "Marital Transitions and Political Behavior," Political Networks Conference, Manchester, UK, 47 August 2026.
  • Anshul Roy, 鈥淐ritical Fabulation, Digital Archives and Infrastructure Infiltration,鈥 2026 New Media Caucus Symposium, Arizona State University, 5鈥9 March 2026.听
  • Jessica Tebo, "Propulsion, Property, and Personhood: Cycling Wives in the Fin de Si猫cle,鈥 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, 11鈥15 November 2026.听

2025

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • BK Clapham, 鈥淯ndetectable: Queer of Color Cultural Production in the Longue Dur茅e of AIDS.鈥
  • Salwa Kazi, 鈥淐olonial Archives of Slavery and Fugitivity."
  • Laura Klein, 鈥淭he Jane Austen Playlist: Musical Sources and Historically Informed Performance Research.鈥澨
Conference Travel Grants
  • Jessico Tebo, 鈥溾楾he Prettiest Weapons in the World鈥: Women鈥檚 Archery, Domesticity, and Empire in Daniel Deronda (1876)," Sport Literature Association Conference, Mercy University, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 18鈥21 June 2025

2024

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Hannah Blanning,听"Facing 鈥淣ecessity鈥: From Atomistic to Interconnected Autonomy in Frankenstein, Valperga, and The听Last Man."
  • Benjamin Clingman, 鈥淒reams of an Indigenous West: Empire and Nationhood in the North American Midcontinent, c.1770肠.1830.鈥
  • David Edem Dotse, "Spirit in the Grid."
  • James Willets,听Christian Censorship and Cold War Comic Books: International Responses to 1950s Crime and Horror听Comics.鈥
Conference Travel Grants
  • Sarah Brown, "Spatial Destruction as Feminist Politics," Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, 27鈥30 March 2024.
  • Wesley Leffingwell,听"Pelham Was Here: Playing and Singing from the 1744 Pelham Copybook," Historical Keyboard Society of North America in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, 26鈥29 June 2024.听

2023

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Laura Klein, 鈥淭he Jane Austen Playlist.鈥
  • Idowu Odeyemi, 鈥淭he Ineffectiveness of Reparation.鈥
Conference Travel Grants
  • Florent Rh茅tor茅, 鈥淒aring to Look at the Other through History: The Impact of Dwarves鈥 Depiction in Medieval French Manuscripts on our Society,鈥 2023 meeting of the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, UK, 3鈥6 July 2023.

2019

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Tiffany Beebe, "Rebuilding Communities: Jewish Refugees in Rural Great Britain during the Great Depression."
  • Brittan Braddock, "Ruth Gipps and the Portia Wind Ensemble: Women Composers, Conductors, and Performers in Twentieth-Century England"听and "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British Women听Composers in the Twentieth Century."
  • Cayla Eagon, "Choosing Death: Victorian Suicide in Literature and Culture."
  • Grace Rexroth, "Imprinted Memories: How Artificial Memory Practices Reimagined Mind, Memory and the Printed Pages of British Romanticism."
  • Alexandra Siso, "The Politics of Music: The Chapel Royal and Elizabeth I's Early Reign."
Conference Travel Grants
  • Tarren Andrews, "Comparative Colonialism: A Parallel Consideration of the Domesday Book and the Dawes Act of 1887," Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Albuquerque, NM, 29 July2 August 2019.
  • Cassity Conny, 鈥淎usten鈥檚 Elements of Citation in听Northanger Abbey,鈥澨齅eeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Chicago, IL, 811 August 2019.
  • Sarah Luginbill, "Western Relics on Eastern Campaigns," Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, United Kingdom, 14 July 2019.
  • Toma Peiu, "Walls, deserts and parkways: for blissful displacements," Royal Anthropological Institute's Film Festival conference, The Watershed, Bristol, 2730 March 2019.
  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron and the Problem with Memory Arts: Writing听Don Juanfor an Age of 'Uncertain Paper',"听 British Association for the Study of Romanticism conference, Nottingham, UK, 2529 July 2019.

2018

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Mark Boespflug, "John Locke鈥檚 Ethics of Belief Reconsidered."
  • Brittan Braddock, "Ruth Gipps and the Portia Wind Ensemble: Women Composers, Conductors, and Performers in Twentieth-Century England"听and "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British Women听Composers in the Twentieth Century."
  • Travis R. May, "Truth in Propaganda: The British and German Empires and the Dissemination of Evidence of Colonial Atrocities During the First World War."
  • Amanda Rose Hartley Villareal, "Performance As Research: Devising and Inclusive Audiences."
Conference Travel Grants
  • Nodin de Saillan, "Rats, Wolves, and Cormorants: Reading the Verminous Elements of听Coriolanus,"听2018 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Los Angeles, CA, 28鈥31 March 2018.
  • Toma Serban Peiu, "Failure and Redemption in the Public Eye: A Critical Look at the Language of Undesired Televisual Political Performance,"听Biennial Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Museum, London, UK, 1鈥5 June 2018.
  • Natalie Pope, "Letter Writing as Sexual Performance in听Villette,"听2018 meeting of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 13鈥16 September, 2018.
  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron鈥檚 Artificial Memory: What听Don Juan听can Teach us about Romantic Print Culture and Memorial Anxiety,"听North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, 22鈥25 June 2018.
  • Rebecca Schneider, "Black Literacy in Exile from Jamaica to Nova Scotia,"听North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, 22鈥25 June 2018.

2017

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Sheena Barnes, "Intelligence and the Politics of Information in Elizabethan England: The Case of Thomas Phelippes."
  • Abby Lagemann, "Homecoming: The Demobilization and Reintegration of English Soldiers, c. 15801630."
  • Claire McCahan, "Gaelic Traditional Song in Contemporary Scotland: An Ethnographic and Pedagogical Study."
Conference Travel Grants
  • William Lewis, "Performity 3.0: The Politics of Post-digital Identity," International Federation for Theatre Research in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 915 June 2017.
  • Sarah Luginbill, "Distinctions of Identity within the English Crusader Army, 11891191," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 36 July 2017.
  • Deven Parker, "A Tale of Two Theatres: Coleridge's听Remorse听(1813) in the Romantic Media Ecology," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, Canada, 1013 August 2017.

2016

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Darin Graber, "Flow Dynamics in Victorian Literature and Culture."
  • Ekaterina Kotcherguina, "Vocal Compositions of G. F. Handel."
  • William Lewis, "Intermedial Participation and Locative Narratives."
  • Amanda Nerbovig, "Departing Donations: A Comparative Study of English and French Noble Crusader Families, 1096-1250."
  • Norin de Saillan, 听"Worms, Rats, and Ravens: Charting the Cultural Construction of Vermin from Edward II to James I."
  • Emma Vawter, "Art Song of Ireland."
Conference Travel Grants
  • Michael Ortiz, Southern Conference on British Studies, 25 November, 2016.
  • Grace Rexroth, North American Society for the Study of Romaticism Conference, 1114 August, 2016.听

2015

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Abby Lagemann, "Homecoming: The Demobilization and Reintegration of English Soldiers, c. 15801630."
  • Eric Stewart, "Harbour: The Terrarium and Post-Colonial Landscape."
Conference Travel Grants
  • Patricia Bredar, British Women Writers Conference, New York City, 2528 June 2015.
  • Cayla Eagon, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, 8-12 July 2015.
  • Kurtis Hessel, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Winnipeg, 1316 August 2015.
  • Deven Parker, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Winnipeg, 1316 August 2015.听

2014

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Nikolas Georgacarakos, "Urban Evangelical Indentities in Tudor London, 15301580."
  • Tyler Huismann, "Unearthing Richard Kilvington's Commentary on听De generatione et corruptione."
  • Theodore Rogers, 听"The Interactions Between and Influences of British Feminist Groups and Indian Feminist Nationalists, 19291938."
  • Jason Shafer, "Instrumental Transmission: Smallpox Inoculation and Vaccination 17501832."
  • Elizabeth Whalley, "Feminisms, Patriarchies, and Post Colonial Nationalism: A Transnational Analysis of Rape Crisis Centers."
Conference Travel Grants
  • Kurtis Hessel, Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, England, 28 July鈥1 August 2014.
  • Deven Parker, Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, England on 28 July1 August 2014.

2013

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Nathan Hall, "Sound Sculpture in Contemporary Ireland."
  • Joseph Stenberg, "Happiness among the Late Medievals."
  • Randall Harmon, dissertation Reasearch with Grid Iron Theater.
  • Sienna Wood, research on the music of Franco-Flemish composer No茅 Faignient.
Conference Travel Grants
  • Alaina Bupp, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI on 812 May 2013.
  • Brandon Truett, 23rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 59 June 2013.
  • Elizabeth Libero, Oceans: Concepts and Cultures conference, London, UK 2526 January 2013.
  • Charles Harding, At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 19141945 conference, Chicago, 2023 June 2013.
  • Daniella Vinitski, ATHE National Theatre Conference, Orlando, 13 August 2013.