Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship

Named in honor of American banker and curbstone broker, Carl Pforzheimer, and his wife Lily, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation fellowship has been awarded annually since 2001. Born in New York City, Carl H. Pforzheimer was a founder of the American Stock Exchange and later established his own firm, Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co., which focused on the oil and gas industry. An avid collector of rare books, Pforzheimer acquired thousands of manuscripts and books during his lifetime, including a Gutenberg Bible and writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In 1986, his son and grandson donated the “Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle” to the New York Public Library.

The fellowship was endowed by the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., which gives nationally to libraries and organizations focused on the arts and performing arts, higher education, and public administration.

2001–2002	John Plotz	Johns Hopkins University	Portable Properties: The Circulation of Objects in Nineteenth-Century Britain
2002–2003	David Lewis Porter	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	China and the Invention of British Aesthetic Culture
2003–2004	John S. Carson	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Mental Ability and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century England and America
2004–2005	Maura Nolan	University of Notre Dame	English Fortune: The Early History of a Literary Idea
2005–2006	Stuart Semmel	University of Delaware	“An Anthropology of Ourselves”: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Mass Observation
2006–2007	Sean Keilen	University of Pennsylvania	The Influence of Friends: Authority and Tradition in Renaissance Poetry
2007–2008	John L. Wilkinson	University of Notre Dame	Rickett’s Blue
2008–2009	Douglas Olson	University of Minnesota	A New Loeb Edition of Athenaeus’ “Learned Banqueters”
2009–2010	Patricia Curd	Purdue University	Divinity, Intelligibility, and Human Understanding in Presocratic Thought
2010–2011	Eliza Richards	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Correspondent Lines: Poetry and Journalism in the U.S. Civil War
2011–2012	Kellie Robertson	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Love and Physics: Chaucer and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
2012–2013	Ruth Morse	Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne	Imagined Histories: Fictions of the Past from Bede to Shakespeare
2013–2014	Holly Smith	Rutgers University	Making Morality Work
2014–2015	Colin D.H. Jones	Queen Mary University of London	Thermidor: Twenty-Four Hours of Parisian Revolution, 27 July 1794
2015–2016	Béatrice Longuenesse	New York University	Self-Consciousness and the First Person
2016–2017	Shellen Wu	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Global Frontiers and the Geopolitical Making of Modern China
2017–2018	Valia Allori	Northern Illinois University	Quantum Mechanics and its Metaphysics: Primitive Ontology, Metaphysical Neutrality, and the Role of the Wave Function in Quantum Theories
2018–2019	Richard K. Wolf	Harvard University	The Nightingale’s Despair: Music and Moral Being in Greater Central Asia
2019–2020	Sonja Drimmer	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Art and Political Visuality in Late Medieval England
2020–2021	Joan Neuberger	University of Texas at Austin	Global Eisenstein: Immersion in Nature, Art, and the World
2021–2022	Jacob M. Baum	Texas Tech University	The Deaf Shoemaker: Ability, Disability, and Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century
2022–2023	Andrew McClellan	Tufts University	Rivals on the Fenway: Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Destiny of the American Art Museum
2023–2024	Yohei Igarashi	University of Connecticut	Word Count: Literary Study and Data Analysis, 1875–1965
2024–2025	Isabel C. Gómez	University of Massachusetts Boston	Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair