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.”
Conference Travel Grants
  • Taylor Moss, “Colonial Currents and Fragile Ecosystems: Dhara Rivera’s Río y Respiro,” Annual Conference of Association for Art History, University of Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.
  • Stone Neilon, "Marital Transitions and Political Behavior," Political Networks Conference, Manchester, UK, 47 August 2026.
  • Anshul Roy, “Critical Fabulation, Digital Archives and Infrastructure Infiltration,” 2026 New Media Caucus Symposium, Arizona State University, 5–9 March 2026.
  • Jessica Tebo, "Propulsion, Property, and Personhood: Cycling Wives in the Fin de Siècle,” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, 11–15 November 2026.

2025

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • BK Clapham, “Undetectable: Queer of Color Cultural Production in the Longue Durée of AIDS.”
  • Salwa Kazi, “Colonial Archives of Slavery and Fugitivity."
  • Laura Klein, “The Jane Austen Playlist: Musical Sources and Historically Informed Performance Research.”
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,"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.1770.1830.”
  • 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," Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, 27–30 March 2024.
  • Wesley Leffingwell,"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.

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 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"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 July2 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, 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: WritingDon Juanfor an Age of 'Uncertain Paper'," British Association for the Study of Romanticism conference, Nottingham, UK, 2529 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, 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,"Biennial 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 inVillette,"2018 meeting of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 13–16 September, 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 Romanticism conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, 22–25 June 2018.
  • Rebecca Schneider, "Black Literacy in Exile from Jamaica to Nova Scotia,"North 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. 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'sRemorse(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, "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.

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.

2014

Ogilvy Travel Fellowships
  • Nikolas Georgacarakos, "Urban Evangelical Indentities in Tudor London, 15301580."
  • 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, 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–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 Noé 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.