Anthony E. “Tony” Kaye was an expert in African-American and Civil War history at Pennsylvania State University, and served as associate editor of the Journal of the Civil War era. His 2007 book, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, was celebrated as a pioneering and influential study of the social geography of slavery that challenged conventional ideas about community and social relationships among enslaved people.
At the Center, he held the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship in 2015–2016, working on his project Taking Canaan: Rethinking the Nat Turner Revolt. He then served as Vice President of Scholarly Programs for the Center from 2016 to 2017, before his untimely passing in May 2017.
The Anthony E. Kaye Fellowship was established with the support of the Center’s Board of Trustees and a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to honor Tony’s legacy of scholarly excellence.
| 2017–2018 | Shahla Talebi | Arizona State University | The Living Monuments of Mourning: Contested Martyrdoms in Post-revolutionary Iran |
| 2018–2019 | Honor Sachs | University of Colorado Boulder | Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family |
| 2019–2020 | Daniel Livesay | Claremont McKenna College | Endless Bondage: Old Age in New World Slavery |
| 2020–2021 | Crystal R. Sanders | Pennsylvania State University | America’s Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners’ Quest for Graduate Education in the Age of Jim Crow |
| 2021–2022 | Oscar de la Torre | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Enyoró: A Collective Biography of Black Matanzas (Cuba) from Slavery to Nation-Making‚ 1835–1898 |
| 2022–2023 | Patricia A. Matthew | Montclair State University | Gender, Sugar, and the Afterlives of Abolition |
| 2023–2024 | Lisa A. Lindsay | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | “Unity”: African Women and Resistance in the Atlantic Slave Trade |
| 2024–2025 | Susanna Lee | North Carolina State University | Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US-Dakota War |