New College has a one-month annual exchange research Fellowship with 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.
The College's intranet contains details on the .
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'