David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture
David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture supports scholars and doctoral researchers studying images and artifacts to explore American history before 1900 through the AAS library.
Funder: American Antiquarian Society
Due Dates: January 15, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $2,400 per month for one to two months
Summary: Supports research on American history before 1900 through the study and use of visual and material culture.
Key Information: Fellows must undertake a period of residence using the AAS library in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Description
The David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture is administered by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) as part of its one to two month residential academic research fellowship program. It supports postdoctoral scholars and graduate students working on doctoral dissertations who study visual and material culture to explore any aspect of American history before 1900. The fellowship encourages engagement with images, artifacts, books, and photographs as sources for historical inquiry.
The award honors David Philip Jaffee (1954–2017), a scholar, teacher, and mentor who helped develop AAS’s Center for Historic American Visual Culture. Supported projects have examined nineteenth-century goods and ideas, hairdressing, clothing and fashion, pharmaceutical imagery, Protestant relics, Native women’s organizing, and histories of slavery and abolition.
