2023

Ogilvy Winners

  • Laura Klein, “The Jane Austen Playlist”
  • Idowu Odeyemi, “The Ineffectiveness of Reparation”

Conference Travel Winners

  • Florent Rhétoré, “Daring to Look at the Other through History: The Impact of Dwarves’ Depiction in Medieval French Manuscripts on our Society,” at the 2023 meeting of the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, UK (3–6 July 2023).

2019

Ogilvy Winners

  • 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 Women Composers 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 Grant Winners

  • Tarren Andrews, "Comparative Colonialism: A Parallel Consideration of the Domesday Book and the Dawes Act of 1887", at the conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Albuquerque, NM, 29 July-2 August 2019. 

  • Cassity Conny, “Austen’s Elements of Citation in Northanger Abbey”, at the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Chicago, IL, 8-11 August 2019.

  • Sarah Luginbill, "Western Relics on Eastern Campaigns", at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, United Kingdom, 1-4 July 2019.

  • Toma Peiu, "Walls, deserts and parkways: for blissful displacements", at the Royal Anthropological Institute's Film Festival conference, The Watershed, Bristol, 27-30 March 2019.

  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron and the Problem with Memory Arts: Writing Don Juanfor an Age of 'Uncertain Paper'", at British Association for the Study of Romanticism conference, Nottingham, UK, 25-29 July 2019.

2018

Ogilvy Winners

  • 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 Women Composers 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 Grant Winners

  • Nodin de Saillan, "Rats, Wolves, and Cormorants: Reading the Verminous Elements of Coriolanus," 2018 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Los Angeles, CA, March 28 – 31, 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, June 1 – 5, 2018.

  • Natalie Pope, "Letter Writing as Sexual Performance in Villette," at the 2018 meeting of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia University, New York, NY, September 13 – 16, 2018.

  • Grace Rexroth, "Byron’s Artificial Memory: What Don Juan can Teach us about Romantic Print Culture and Memorial Anxiety," North American Society for the Study of Romanticismconference, Brown University in Providence, RI, June 22 – 25, 2018. 

  • Rebecca Schneider, "Black Literacy in Exile from Jamaica to Nova Scotia," North American Society for the Study of Romanticismconference, Brown University, Providence, RI, June 22 – 25, 2018.

2017

Ogilvy Winners

  • 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. 1580-1630"
  • Claire McCahan: "Gaelic Traditional Song in Contemporary Scotland: An Ethnographic and Pedagogical Study"

Conference Travel Grant Winners

  • William Lewis: "Performity 3.0: The Politics of Post-digital Identity," to deliver at the conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 9-15, 2017.
  • Sarah Luginbill: "Distinctions of Identity within the English Crusader Army, 1189-1191," to deliver at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK, July 3-6, 2017.
  • Deven Parker: "A Tale of Two Theatres: Coleridge's Remorse (1813) in the Romantic Media Ecology," to present at the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Ottawa, Canada, August 10-13, 2017.

2016

Ogilvy Winners

  • 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 Grant Winners

  • Michael Ortiz to present a paper at the Southern Conference on British Studies on November 2-5, 2016. 
  • Grace Rexroth to present a paper at the North American Society for the Study of Romaticism Conference on August 11-14, 2016. 

2015

Ogilvy Winners

  • Abby Lagemann: "Homecoming: The Demobilization and Reintegration of English Soldiers, c. 1580-1630"
  • Eric Stewart: "Harbour: The Terrarium and Post-Colonial Landscape"

Conference Travel Grant Winners

  • Patricia Bredar to present a paper at teh British Women Writers Conference in New York City on June 25-28, 2015.
  • Cayla Eagon to present a paper at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference in Honolulu on July 8-12, 2015.
  • Kurtis Hessel to present a paper at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference in Winnipeg on August 13-16, 2015.
  • Deven Parker to present a paper at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference in Winnipeg on August 13-16, 2015. 

2014

Ogilvy Winners

  • Nikolas Georgacarakos: "Urban Evangelical Indentities in Tudor London, 1530-1580"
  • Tyler Huismann: "Unearthing Richard Kilvington's Commentary on De generatione et corruptione"
  • Theodore Rogers: "The Interactions Between and Influences of British Feminist Groups and Indian Feminist Nationalists, 1929-1938"
  • Jason Shafer: "Instrumental Transmission: Smallpox Inoculation and Vaccination 1750-1832"
  • Elizabeth Whalley: "Feminisms, Patriarchies, and Post Colonial Nationalism: A Transnational Analysis of Rape Crisis Centers"

Conference Travel Grant Winners

  • Kurtis Hessel to present a paper at the Coleridge Summer Conference in Cannington, England on July 28-August 1, 2014.
  • Deven Parker to present a paper at the Coleridge Summer Conference in Cannington, England on July 28-August 1, 2014.

2013

Ogilvy Winners

  • Nathan Hall: "Sound Sculpture in Contemporary Ireland"
  • Joseph Stenberg: "Happiness among the Late Medievals"
  • Randall Harmon: Dissertation Reasearch with Grid Iron Theater
  • Sienna Wood: Reasearch on the music of Franco-Flemis composer Noé Faignient 

Conference Travel Grant Winners

  • Alaina Bupp to present a paper and lead a panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI on May 8-12, 2013.
  • Brandon Truett to present a paper at the 23rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf on June 5-9, 2013.
  • Elizabeth Libero to present a paper at the Oceans: Concepts and Cultures conference in London on January 25-26, 2013.
  • Charles Harding to present a paper at the At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 conference in Chicago on June 20-23, 2013. 
  • Daniella Vinitski to present a series of papers at the ATHE National Theatre Conference in Orlando on August 1-3, 2013.