Kanner Fellows in British Studies

2022–23
Unita Ahdifard, UC Santa Barbara
“’The Wings of Inclination’: The Anglo-Persianate Realm in Women’s Travel Narratives and the Travelling Imaginary, 1750-1850″

Anhiti Patnaik, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
“Trials of Wilde and Manto: Witnessing Crime, Empire, and Censorship”

2020–21
Morton Wan, Cornell University
Music and Money: Handel and the Networked Economies of Musical Life in the Eighteenth Century

2019–20
Mackenzie B. Gregg, University of California, Riverside
“Plagues that Fascinate:” Leprosy, Sexuality, and Victorian Decadence”

2018–19
Hannah Jeans, University of York
“Women, Letters and News Cultures in Seventeenth-Century England”

2017–18
Elisabeth B. Gernerd, University of Edinburgh
“Tetes to Tails: Eighteenth-Century Underwear and Accessories”

2016–17
Samuel C. Fullerton, University of California, Riverside
“’That Diabolical Contagion:’ The Pamphlet Wars and the British Revolution, 1647–1653″

Sean Thomas O’Neil, Columbia University
“Technicians of the Sign: The Practice of Semiotics in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1750”

2014–15
Julia K. Callander, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Plagiarist, the Sodomite, and the Cannibal: Authorship and the History of Sexuality, 1740–1820”

Heather Marcovitch, Red Deer College
“Harland, D’Arcy, Beardsley: Authorship and Editorship at The Yellow Book”

2013–14
Bethany Cencer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
“Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Partsong Societies”

Diana Solomon, Simon Fraser University
“The Repetition of Comedy in Long-Eighteenth-Century British Theater”

2012–13
Toni Bowers, University of Pennsylvania
“The Seduction of Scotland: Sexual Metaphors and the Union Debate, 1705–1707”

Brendan Gillis, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Conduits of Justice: Law, Local Government, and the State in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

2011–12
John Collins, University of Virginia
“So That His Word Is a Law: Martial Law in English Dominions, 1550–1700”

Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex
“Priest of Nature: The Political Theology of Isaac Newton”

2010–11
Sören Hammerschmidt, University of Edinburgh
“Augustan Heads and August Characters”

2009–10
Renee Fox, Princeton University
“Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation, History, and Political Aesthetics”

2008–09
Nedda Mehdizadeh, George Washington University
“East of Eden: Early Modern Fantasies of Persia”

2007–08
Derya Gurses Tarbuck
“Nine Muses of Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century: New Approaches to Enlightenment Sociabilities”

Amit Yahav-Brown, University of Haifa
“Moments; or Time and the Novel”