The 2026 Fellowship Award Winners

The BSA is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2026 Fellowships. This year’s cohort of outstanding bibliographers is engaged in research that promises to enhance the current landscape of textual studies and inform future methodologies and understandings.

The 2026 Fellows’ projects represent innovative approaches to bibliography across a variety of topics, cultures, and historical periods. These range from practices of reading Archimedes’ mathematics, to Indigenous influences on colonial book publishing, to Black women’s literary archiving and recovery work in the twentieth century. Motifs emerging from this year’s awards include the creation and conservation of intricate book bindings; the intersections of text and textile; Early Modern approaches to textual forms of learning; legal and printing practices with influence across national boundaries; publishing and reading trends in the colonial Americas; self-publishing and DIY archiving among politically and racially marginalized groups; and the work of women in the transmission of cultural knowledge. This year’s fellows will venture to research libraries and archival collections across the continental U.S. as well as Western Europe, England, and Ireland.

The BSA is proud to support these fascinating projects through the Fellowships Program, and we eagerly anticipate the contributions these scholars will make to the field of bibliography.

Warmest congratulations to all the 2026 Fellows!

The 2026 Fellowship Award Winners

• Nicole Alvarado, UCLA Library: “Understanding and Conserving Islamicate Collections at Research and Collecting Institutions” (The BSA Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)

• Mark Bland, Independent Scholar: “The World of Simon Waterson , Stationer” (The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography)

• Sydnee Brown, University of Iowa: “Crafting Mothers, Making Babies: (Im)Material Generation in Womenʼs Reproductive Writing, 1550-1750” (The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography)

• Clare Byers, John Carter Brown Library of the Early Americas, Brown University: “Forgotten Journeys: The French Bestsellers That Shaped American Exploration” (The Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers)

• Jiayi Chen, Washington University in St. Louis: “Weaving ‘Brocades’: Reading Games in Early Modern China” (The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century)

• Angelina Coronado, Columbia University: “The Bibliographic Legacy of the Ordenanzas de los Negros” (The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography)

• Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts: “Rhetorics of the Early Modern Map” (The Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography)

• Christy Gordon Baty and Erin Moody, Relics In Situ: “English Embroidered Book Bindings of the 16th and 17th Centuries” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)

• E.A. Hunter, University of Chicago: “‘Reading Archimedes in Early Modern Europe: Difficulty, Interpretation, and the Making of Scientific Authority” (The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography)

• Jair Jáuregui Torres, University of California Berkeley: “Reprinting the Worldʼs Fair: Universal Expositions as Seen by the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Press” (The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Ephemera)

• Dana Katz, Uppsala University, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study: “Rome Beyond Rome: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Muslim and Christian Late Medieval Mediterranean” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)

• Monet Lewis-Timmons, University of Memphis: “Scholar of the Archive: Akasha Hullʼs Recovery of Alice Dunbar-Nelson” (The Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship)

• David Medina, Florida Atlantic University: “Before the Book: Indigenous Mediascapes and the Invention of Colonial Print Culture (1519-1670)” (The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas)

• Kevin O’Sullivan, Texas A&M University: “Isaac Abendana’s Oxford Almanacs, 1692-99: A Description And Preliminary Census” (The Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades)

• Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Lehman College CUNY: “Radical Annotations: Black Womenʼs Home Libraries as Intellectual Archives” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)

• Michaela Telfer, University of Connecticut-Stamford: “Collecting Contingency: Soviet Samizdat and Printing by Other Means” (The BSA Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)

• Christina Vortia, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University: “This is Mine: Provenance, Black Bibliophiles, Bookplate Art and the Radical Claim of Cultural Ownership” (The BSA-St. Louis Mercantile Library Fellowship)

For a list of previous BSA Research Fellows and their research topics, explore our extensive list of Award Winners. Filter by award type, year, or program to find the projects and award recipients that interest you.