2009-2010 (read more)

Charles Calhoun, Independent Scholar ( Maine Humanities Council), “Going British: The Anglicizing of American Hunting with Hounds, 1865-1930.”

Pia Cuneo, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Arizona, “Early Modern Horsemanship Manuals: A Comparative Study.”

 Elisabetta Deriu, Ph.D., Doctoral Graduate in History (University of Paris), “The International Fortune of an Early 17th c. Handwritten Horsemanship Treatise: Valerio Piccardini's Scritti di Cavaleria.”

Horace Laffaye, M.D., Independent Writer, “The Evolution of Polo in the United States.”

Glenye Cain Oakford, Journalist/Writer (Daily Racing Form), “The Golden Thread.”

Dorothy Ours, Journalist/Writer, “The American Pony: Battleship and the Grand National Quest.”

Samuel Snyder, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in Religion, Kalamazoo College, “Motivating the Flows of Angling Environmentalisms: from Utilitarian Conservation to Ecological Restoration.”

2008

Perky Beisel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, “Stable Design in the United States and Europe from 1865-1929.”

Amy Freund, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Art History, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas, “French Hunting Portraiture and British Sporting Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century.”

Mike Huggins, Ph.D., Reader in Cultural History, University of Cumbria, England, “Interaction of America and Britain in Horse Racing and Breeding, 1830-1900.”

Susan McHugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, “Velvet Revolutions: Girls, Horses, and Stories of Professional Sports.”

Noel Mullins, Journalist, Malheney, Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland, “The Literary and Artistic Partnership of Somerville and Ross, Foxhunting and Travels Abroad.”

Elizabeth Redkey, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, “For the Improvement of the Breed of Horse: Thoroughbred Racing and National Security in the Age of Horsepower.”

Martin Wallen, Ph.D., Professor of English, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, “‘Whose Dog Are You?’: The Eighteenth Century Foxhound and the Rise of Canine Breeds.”

2007

Elizabeth M. Tobey, Ph.D., Fellowship Coordinator, National Sporting Library, "Federico Grisone's Gli Ordini di Cavalcare [The Rules of Riding]."

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