Past and Current Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship Recipients

These scholars received support through the Loring fellowship program, a collaboration of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Boston Athenaeum.

2024-2025
Sarah Gardner
Mercer University
Shakespeare Fights the American Civil War

2023-2024
Ian Delahanty
Springfield College
In Whitney's Wake: New England's Cotton Gin Manufacturers and the Sectional Conflict

2022-2023
Paul Polgar
University of Mississippi
An Abolition Peace: Black Rights, the Union Cause, and the Rise of Radical Reconstruction

2021-2022
Anne Cross
University of Delaware
‘Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen’: The Media of Atrocity in Harper's Weekly, 1862-1866

2020-2021
Andrew Donnelly
Harvard University
Reconstructing Sexuality: The Politics of Sex and Manhood in the Civil War Era

2019-2020
Kevin Hooper
University of Oklahoma
Seizing Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Pursuit of Citizenship in the Antebellum United States

2018-2019
Jean Franzino
Beloit College
Dis-Union: Disability Cultures and the American Civil War

2017-2018
Kathleen Hilliard
Iowa State University
Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860-1867

2016-2017
Kent McConnell
Phillips Exeter Academy
A Time-Stained God: Spiritual Lives, Civil War Deaths and the Violent Remaking of Religion in America

2015-2016
Robert Mann
Independent Scholar
The Contact of Human Souls

2015-2016
Kevin Waite
University of Pennsylvania
The Slave South in the Far West: California, the Pacific, and Proslavery Visions of Empire

2014-2015
Sarah Beetham
University of Delaware
"Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917"

2013-2014
Dylan Yeats
New York University
"Americanizing America: How the Federal Government Shaped the Nation, 1818-1924"

2012-2013
Ann K. Holder
Pratt Institute
"'Making the Body Politic': Sexual Histories, Racial Uncertainties and Vernacular Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation U.S."

2011-2012
Jordan Watkins
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"The Place of the Past in the American Civil War"

2010-2011
Peter Wirzbicki
New York University
"Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists: Creating the Radical Intellectual Tradition in Antebellum Boston"

2009-2010
Kathryn Shively Meier
University of Virginia
"Under the Surge of the Blue": Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862"

2008-2009
Megan Kate Nelson
California State University at Fullerton
"Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War"