Past Grant Winners

2026 (Jan-May)

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Hannah Blanning, “Conduits and Interpreters of Idealist Spinozian Ethics: Henry Crabb Robinson and Germaine de Staël in Germany.â€�
Conference Travel Grants
  • Taylor Moss, “Colonial Currents and Fragile Ecosystems: Dhara Rivera’s Río y Respiro,â€� Annual Conference of Association for Art History, University of Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.Ìı
  • Stone Neilon, "Marital Transitions and Political Behavior," Political Networks Conference, Manchester, UK, 4–7 August 2026.
  • Anshul Roy, “Critical Fabulation, Digital Archives and Infrastructure Infiltration,â€� 2026 New Media Caucus Symposium, Arizona State University, 5–9 March 2026.Ìı
  • Jessica Tebo, "Propulsion, Property, and Personhood: Cycling Wives in the Fin de Siècle,â€� North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, 11–15 November 2026.Ìı

2025

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • BK Clapham, “Undetectable: Queer of Color Cultural Production in the Longue Durée of AIDS.â€�
  • Salwa Kazi, “Colonial Archives of Slavery and Fugitivity."
  • Laura Klein, “The Jane Austen Playlist: Musical Sources and Historically Informed Performance Research.â€�Ìı
Conference Travel Grants
  • Jessico Tebo, “‘The Prettiest Weapons in the World’: Women’s Archery, Domesticity, and Empire in Daniel Deronda (1876)," Sport Literature Association Conference, Mercy University, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 18–21 June 2025

2024

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Hannah Blanning,Ìı"Facing “Necessityâ€�: From Atomistic to Interconnected Autonomy in Frankenstein, Valperga, and TheÌıLast Man."
  • Benjamin Clingman, “Dreams of an Indigenous West: Empire and Nationhood in the North American Midcontinent, c.1770–³¦.1830.â€�
  • David Edem Dotse, "Spirit in the Grid."
  • James Willets,Ìı“Christian Censorship and Cold War Comic Books: International Responses to 1950s Crime and HorrorÌıComics.â€�
Conference Travel Grants
  • Sarah Brown, "Spatial Destruction as Feminist Politics," Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, 27–30 March 2024.
  • Wesley Leffingwell,Ìı"Pelham Was Here: Playing and Singing from the 1744 Pelham Copybook," Historical Keyboard Society of North America in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, 26–29 June 2024.Ìı

2023

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Laura Klein, “The Jane Austen Playlist.â€�
  • Idowu Odeyemi, “The Ineffectiveness of Reparation.â€�
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,â€� 2023 meeting of the International Medieval Congress at the University 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"Ìıand "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British WomenÌıComposers 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 inÌıNorthanger Abbey,â€�ÌıMeeting 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: WritingÌıDon Juanfor an Age of 'Uncertain Paper',"Ìı 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"Ìıand "The Chamber Wind Ensemble Music of British WomenÌıComposers 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 ofÌıCoriolanus,"Ìı2018 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Los Angeles, CA, 28–31 March 2018.
  • Toma Serban Peiu, "Failure and Redemption in the Public Eye: A Critical Look at the Language of Undesired Televisual Political Performance,"ÌıBiennial Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Museum, London, UK, 1–5 June 2018.
  • Natalie Pope, "Letter Writing as Sexual Performance inÌıVillette,"Ìı2018 meeting of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 13–16 September, 2018.
  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron’s Artificial Memory: WhatÌıDon JuanÌıcan Teach us about Romantic Print Culture and Memorial Anxiety,"ÌıNorth American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, 22–25 June 2018.
  • Rebecca Schneider, "Black Literacy in Exile from Jamaica to Nova Scotia,"ÌıNorth American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, 22–25 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. 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, 9–15 June 2017.
  • Sarah Luginbill, "Distinctions of Identity within the English Crusader Army, 1189–1191," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 3–6 July 2017.
  • Deven Parker, "A Tale of Two Theatres: Coleridge'sÌıRemorseÌı(1813) in the Romantic Media Ecology," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, Canada, 10–13 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, Ìı"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, 2–5 November, 2016.
  • Grace Rexroth, North American Society for the Study of Romaticism Conference, 11–14 August, 2016.Ìı

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, 25–28 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, 13–16 August 2015.
  • Deven Parker, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Winnipeg, 13–16 August 2015.Ìı

2014

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Nikolas Georgacarakos, "Urban Evangelical Indentities in Tudor London, 1530–1580."
  • Tyler Huismann, "Unearthing Richard Kilvington's Commentary onÌıDe generatione et corruptione."
  • Theodore Rogers, Ìı"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, 28 July–1 August 2014.
  • Deven Parker, Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington, England on 28 July–1 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 Noé Faignient.
Conference Travel Grants
  • Alaina Bupp, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI on 8–12 May 2013.
  • Brandon Truett, 23rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 5–9 June 2013.
  • Elizabeth Libero, Oceans: Concepts and Cultures conference, London, UK 25–26 January 2013.
  • Charles Harding, At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945 conference, Chicago, 20–23 June 2013.
  • Daniella Vinitski, ATHE National Theatre Conference, Orlando, 1–3 August 2013.