Past Grant Winners

2024

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships

  • Hannah Blanning,"Facing “Necessity”: From Atomistic to Interconnected Autonomy in Frankenstein, Valperga, and TheLast Man."
  • Benjamin Clingman, “Dreams of an Indigenous West: Empire and Nationhood in the North American Midcontinent, c.1770-c.1830.”
  • David Edem Dotse, "Spirit in the Grid."
  • James Willets,Christian Censorship and Cold War Comic Books: International Responses to 1950s Crime and HorrorComics.”

Conference Travel Grants

  • Sarah Brown, "Spatial Destruction as Feminist Politics."
  • Wesley Leffingwell,"Pelham Was Here: Playing and Singing from the 1744 Pelham Copybook."

2023

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships

  • Laura Klein, “The Jane Austen Playlist.”
  • Idowu Odeyemi, “The Ineffectiveness of Reparation.”

Conference Travel Grants

  • Florent Rhétoré, “Daring to Look at the Other through History: The Impact of Dwarves’ Depiction in Medieval French Manuscripts on our Society,” 2023 meeting of the International Medieval Congress at the Թ of Leeds, UK (3–6 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"and "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British WomenComposers 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 July-2 August 2019.
  • Cassity Conny, “Austen’s Elements of Citation inNorthanger Abbey,”Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Chicago, IL, 8-11 August 2019.
  • Sarah Luginbill, "Western Relics on Eastern Campaigns," Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, United Kingdom, 1-4 July 2019.
  • Toma Peiu, "Walls, deserts and parkways: for blissful displacements," Royal Anthropological Institute's Film Festival conference, The Watershed, Bristol, 27-30 March 2019.
  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron and the Problem with Memory Arts: WritingDon Juanfor an Age of 'Uncertain Paper'," British Association for the Study of Romanticism conference, Nottingham, UK, 25-29 July 2019.

2018

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships

  • Mark Boespflug, "John Locke’s Ethics of Belief Reconsidered."
  • Brittan Braddock, "Ruth Gipps and the Portia Wind Ensemble: Women Composers, Conductors, and Performers in Twentieth-Century England"and "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British WomenComposers 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 ofCoriolanus,"2018 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Los Angeles, CA, March 28 – 31, 2018.
  • Toma Serban Peiu, "Failure and Redemption in the Public Eye: A Critical Look at the Language of Undesired Televisual Political Performance,"Biennial Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Museum, London, UK, June 1 – 5, 2018.
  • Natalie Pope, "Letter Writing as Sexual Performance inVillette,"2018 meeting of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia Թ, New York, NY, September 13 – 16, 2018.
  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron’s Artificial Memory: WhatDon Juancan Teach us about Romantic Print Culture and Memorial Anxiety,"North American Society for the Study of Romanticismconference, Brown Թ, Providence, RI, June 22 – 25, 2018.
  • Rebecca Schneider, "Black Literacy in Exile from Jamaica to Nova Scotia,"North American Society for the Study of Romanticismconference, Brown Թ, Providence, RI, June 22 – 25, 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. 1580-1630."
  • 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, July 9-15, 2017.
  • Sarah Luginbill, "Distinctions of Identity within the English Crusader Army, 1189-1191," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 3-6, 2017.
  • Deven Parker, "A Tale of Two Theatres: Coleridge'sRemorse(1813) in the Romantic Media Ecology," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, Canada, August 10-13, 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, "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, November 2-5, 2016.
  • Grace Rexroth, North American Society for the Study of Romaticism Conference, August 11-14, 2016.

2015

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships

  • Abby Lagemann, "Homecoming: The Demobilization and Reintegration of English Soldiers, c. 1580-1630."
  • Eric Stewart, "Harbour: The Terrarium and Post-Colonial Landscape."

Conference Travel Grants

  • Patricia Bredar, British Women Writers Conference, New York City, June 25-28, 2015.
  • Cayla Eagon, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, July 8-12, 2015.
  • Kurtis Hessel, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Winnipeg, August 13-16, 2015.
  • Deven Parker, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Winnipeg, August 13-16, 2015.

2014

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships

  • Nikolas Georgacarakos, "Urban Evangelical Indentities in Tudor London, 1530-1580."
  • Tyler Huismann, "Unearthing Richard Kilvington's Commentary onDe generatione et corruptione."
  • Theodore Rogers, "The Interactions Between and Influences of British Feminist Groups and Indian Feminist Nationalists, 1929-1938."
  • Jason Shafer, "Instrumental Transmission: Smallpox Inoculation and Vaccination 1750-1832."
  • 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, July 28-August 1, 2014.
  • Deven Parker, Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, England on July 28-August 1, 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 Noé Faignient.

Conference Travel Grants

  • Alaina Bupp, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI on May 8-12, 2013.
  • Brandon Truett, 23rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 5-9, 2013.
  • Elizabeth Libero, Oceans: Concepts and Cultures conference, London on January 25-26, 2013.
  • Charles Harding, At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 conference, Chicago on June 20-23, 2013.
  • Daniella Vinitski, ATHE National Theatre Conference, Orlando, August 1-3, 2013.