New College has a one-month annual exchange research Fellowship with The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, two blocks from Caltech in Pasadena. The month must be taken between 1 July and 30 June in any year.
The Fellowship applications are judged with a leaning towards the use of the Library's holdings. The collection's strengths are in English history, American history, English literature, Drama, and History of Art. It also has a separate Librarian in the History of Science and has the Dibner Science Library recently transferred from MIT. The Library also has a secondary collection, which has strengths in areas that support the main holdings, and which tend to reflect the interests of the regular scholars.
Details of the terms and application procedure can be found on the College's intranet.
Any questions should be addressed to Michael Burden.
Current and Past Holders
2024-25
New College
Alexander Laar
'Chancery, the Nobility and the Reformed Tradition in Early Seventeenth-Century England'
The Huntington
Taylor Prescott (University of Pennsylvania)
'Cooperation, Contestation and Identity Formation: A History of Interethnic Exchange in Sierra Leone (1775-1850)'
2023-24
New College
Daniel Joseph Fried
'John Milton (1608-74) and the Uses of Ancient Learning'
The Huntington
Emily Schollenberger (Temple University)
'Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscape'
2022-23
New College
Bradley Hoover
'Mystical Movements: Delsarte, Ruth St. Denis, and the Divinization of American Modern Dance, 1900-1930'
The Huntington
Madison Forbes (Fordham University)
'The Rhetorical Hermeneutics of Early-Modern Interpretive Communities'
2021-22
Suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020-21
New College
Ben Gilding
'Charles Jenkinson and the Eighteenth-Century Crises of Empire'
The Huntington
Charlotte Rossler (Stony Brook University)
'Race Science on Tour: Instructing Publics in Provincial Britain, 1830-1870'
2019-20
New College
Katie McKeogh
'Gentleman Scholars: Catholicism and Antiquarianism, 1560-1660'
The Huntington
Tita Chico (University of Maryland, College Park)
'Technologies of Wonder in an Age of Enlightenment'
2018-19
New College
Michael Burden
'Gazing at the Dancer: Dance, Image and Caricature and the London Opera House 1780-1830'
The Huntington
Adrian Finucane (Florida Atlantic University)
'Founding Georgia: Labor, Migration, and Utopianism in an American Borderland'
2017-18
New College
Laura Marcus
'Rhythmic Subjects: The Measures of the Modern'
The Huntington
Sarah Leonard (University of Delaware)
'William Morris and the River Thames'
2016-17
New College
Christy Edwall
'The Poetic Uses of Botanic Taxonomy from Erasmus Darwin to John Ruskin'
The Huntington
Anne Heminger (University of Michigan)
'Confession Carried Aloft: Music, Sound, and Religious Identity in London, 1540-1560'
2015-16
New College
Ryan Hanley
'British Abolitionism and the War of 1812'
The Huntington
Neil Weijer (Johns Hopkins University)
'How England was Called Albion: The Legendary History of Britain in Script and Print c.1400-1575'