The Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History awards fellowships that support advanced research in women’s history, broadly defined.

• Dissertation research fellowships support a semester of on-site research for graduate students working on a doctoral dissertation.
• Short-term research fellowships support four weeks of collections research. Applicants may be graduate students, PhD holders, or independent researchers.

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Fellows of the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History

2026–2027 Dissertation Fellow

Chloe Kauffman, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland 
“If women are curious, women like also to speak”: Unmarried Women, Sexual Knowledge, and Female Mentorship in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic 

2026–2027 Short-Term Fellows

Avonlea Bowthorpe, PhD Candidate, William & Mary 
Confidence and Coercion: Gender and Economic Agency in the British Atlantic, 1713-1800 

2025–2026 Dissertation Fellow

Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

2025–2026 Short-Term Fellows

Chika Jenkins, PhD Candidate, Bard Graduate Center
Leaving a Mark: Confluence of Rhythms in the Pennsylvania Dutch Butter Print & Mold

Corey Loftus, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Gravid Imaginaire: Picturing Pregnancy Before the Ultrasound

2024–2025 Dissertation Fellow

Emma Chapman, PhD student, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Disappearing Connections: Absence, Kin, and Economy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century New France and New England

2024–2025 Short-Term Fellow

Mariah Kupfner, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Public Heritage, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg
Disappearing Connections: Absence, Kin, and Economy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century New France and New England

2023–2024 Short-Term Fellow

Shana Klein, Associate Professor, School of Art, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in Victorian American Art

2022–2023 Short-Term Fellow

Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

2021–2022 Short-Term Fellow

Short-Term awards paused for 2021–2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020–2021 Short-Term Fellow

Kim Nielsen, Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo
Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity

2019–2020 Short-Term Fellow

Madelaine Schurch, PhD Candidate in English, University of York
Anne Hampton Brewster: Emigration, Belonging, and Geographical Imagination, 1850–1875 (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2018–2019 Short-Term Fellow

Chiara Cillerai, Institute for Writing Studies, St. John’s University, New York, and Lisa Logan, Department of English, University of Central Florida
The Works of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson and the Elizabeth Fergusson Digital Archive

2017–2018 Short-Term Fellow

Charlene Boyer Lewis, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America

2016–2017 Short-Term Fellow

Magdalena Zapędowska, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lydia Sigourney, Maria Gowen Brooks, and the Materiality of Antebellum Poetry

2015–2016 Short-Term Fellow

Jacqueline Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
In Dependence: Women’s Protection and Subordination as Power in Early America, 1750–1820

2014–2015 Short-Term Fellow

Julia Delacroix, Debby Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University
The Storm That Shakes the World: Women’s Elegies in Revolutionary America