Scholars in Residence

Christopher Allison, Digital Spaces Chicago
Sacred Spaces: Naturalism in American Architecture

Roseline Armange, University of Antilles
Clandestine Trade: Unsilencing the Black Atlantic Archivals

Lydia Barnett, Northwestern University
Earth Work: Environmental Expertise in Early Modern Italy

Karen-edis Barzman, Binghamton University, DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago
The Origins of Geographic Information Systems: Government Mapping in Early Modern Venice

Jamie Bolker, Independent Scholar
Before GPS: Getting Lost and Found in Early America

Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago
Amy Lowell Letters Project

William Brooks, University of Illinois
Sheet music of WWI; Gussie L. Davis

Salvatore Calomino, University of Wisconsin Madison
Annotated translation with commentary of the memoirs (Erinnerungen) of Anna Bahr-Mildenburg

Federica Caneparo, University of Chicago
Painting Ovid in Italian: Anguillara’s Translation of the Metamorphoses and its Impact on the Visual Arts

Raymond Clemens, Independent Scholar
Books and Bindings: A Material and Cultural History of Unusual Medieval and Renaissance Bindings

Ronald Corthell, Purdue Northwest
The Poet and the Polemicist

Delia Cosentino, DePaul University
Tlahuicole Rising: Native Gladiators, Antiquarian Fantasies, and 19th century Mexican Patriotism

Diane Dillon, Independent Scholar
The Visual Culture of the World's Columbian Exposition

Kristin Enright, University of Colorado Boulder
A Pacific Intercolonial History of Puebla Loza

Roger Ferlo, Independent Scholar
Telling It Slant: A Sermon Memoir

Stephen Foster, Northern Illinois University
Religion and Society in New England, 1690 to ca. 1750

Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago
Adaptation on the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Play

april l. graham-jackson, University of Chicago
Help Me Get The Keys To The Kingdom: (re)Mapping Black Suburban Life Through Chicago Southland

Timothy Gilfoyle, Loyola University Chicago
Singer’s Invention, Inventing Singer: Isaac Merritt Singer, Edward Clark, and the Creation of the Sewing Machine and the Corporation That Made Them.

Theresa Gross-Diaz, Loyola University Chicago
Holy Wells in Medieval Christianity: Rebranding local deities

Leslie Harris, Northwestern University
Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History

Megan Heffernan, DePaul University
Resilient Books: Library Science in an Age of Precarity

K.J. Hickerson, University of Chicago
Mortal Struggles

Frederick Hoxie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A History of Oahu College in Hawaii

Robert Ketterer, University of Iowa
Classical literature in texts of Baroque Music and Drama

Nicholas Kryczka, National Louis University
Schooling Renewal: Choice and Community in Post-Civil Rights Chicago

Ann Kuzdale, DePaul University
Opera Omnia and Patristic Authority: a case study of Gregory the Great

Katarzyna Lecky, Loyola University Chicago
England's Weedy Renaissance

Ruth Lopez, Independent Scholar
Miss Jennie Curtis & Her Sisters

Debra N. Mancoff, Independent Scholar
Memento Mori: Art, Death, Remembrance

Francesco Marullo, University of Illinois Chicago
All Magnificent and Wild - The Architecture of Residential Hotels

Laura Matthew, Marquette University
Walking Backwards: Commerce, Migration, and Memory in Pacific Central America, 1570-1630

Andrew Mattison, University of Toledo
Milton and Ancient Greek Religion

Rowena McClinton, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Economic and Social Analysis of Sharecropping System on the William Alexander Percy Trail Lake Plantation, Leland, Mississippi (1936-37)

Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan
Ovidian Ecologies: The Metamorphoses in Medieval France

James McMenamin, The Chicago Literary Club
“Women and The Chicago Literary Club”; Digitization of The Chicago Literary Club’s handwritten Minutes (1874-1948)

Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Black Public Religion and Social Welfare Policy

Walter Melion, Emory University
“Reading as One: Printed Emblemata into Alba amicorum as an Expression of Love”

Eva Mendieta, Indiana University Northwest
Voices from the Streets: Manuscript Accounts of Conflict and Community in Early Modern Spain

Amy Mooney, Columbia College Chicago
Say It with Pictures: Chicago's Black Photographers and the Great Migration

Merritt Morgan, Chicago Public Schools
Print Culture in New York: The Essence of the Benevolent Empire from 1816 to 1837

RoseAnna Mueller, Columbia College Chicago
Towards a Visualization of Thomas Gage's English American

Peter Nekola, The MacLean Library
From "Scrub Cedar" to "Native Invasive": Languages of Juniper Removal in North America Across Two Centuries

Kirk Nickel, Art Institute of Chicago
The Enigmatic Image in Renaissance Brescia

Brian O'Camb, Indiana University Northwest
John Heywood’s Tudor Adaptation of an Old English Pig Proverb and its Carved Analogs

Emmanuel Ortega, University of Illinois Chicago
Shifting Influence: Alexander von Humboldt and Latin America

Louis Pitschmann, Independent Scholar
Þýzkalands Saga: An Example of 17th-Century Icelandic Humanistic Historiography

Teresa Prados-Torreira, Columbia College Chicago
Art Young's Life and Work

Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas, Northwestern University
Between Cosmopolitanism and Folklore: Reading the Visual Rhetoric of Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

Michal Raz-Russo, The Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Parks, Chicago, and the Black Arts Movement

Sheryl Reiss, University of Chicago
A Portrait of a Medici Maecenas: Giulio de’ Medici (Pope Clement VII) and the Visual Arts.

Jeffrey Rosen, Independent Scholar
Julia Margaret Cameron's Imperial Shakespeare Gallery

Eleanor Schneider, Independent Scholar
Reforming Boys: The English Reformation and the Conversion of Humanism

Samantha Smith, Michigan State University
Nightlivelihoods: Five Stories of Artistic Labor, Gender, and Las Vegas, 1930-1980

Timothy Soriano, University of Illinois Chicago and Saint Xavier University
PhD Dissertation The Royal Navy, Legal Pluralism, and Authority in Early Sierra Leone

Tanya Stabler, Loyola University Chicago
Men, Women, and Religious Networks in Medieval France

Joe Stadolnik, University of Chicago
Subtle Matter: The Alchemical Mode in Medieval England

Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times
What is Judaism Good For? The Benefits of a Besieged Religion

Margaret Storey, DePaul University
Conceived in Liberty

Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hands Off: A History of Fighting Back Against Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace

Denise A. Walen, Vassar College
The Stage History of 3.7 and 4.6 King Lear

Benjamin Weil, The Medieval Academy of America / Northwestern University
Representing the City in 14th-Century Italy: Art, Politics, and Civic Identities

Agata Zborowska, University of Chicago
Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago

James Zychowicz, A-R Editions
Reassessing Mahler Scholarship: The Two Decades

Paul F. Gehl, The Newberry Library
Early Printing; Book Trade History

James Akerman, Newberry Library
History of American Travel and Transportation Mapping

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