2025

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Amanda Johnson, Assistant Professor in English and World Literature, Pitzer College
  “James Freeman Clark's Anti-Abolitionism and The Western Messenger”
• Michelle Vasquez-Ruiz, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
  “Highways of Inequality” in “Crossborder Legacies: US-Mexico Pan American Mobilities and the Technologies of Anti-Indigeneity”
• Michael Buse, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
  “California Publics: The Native Sons of the Golden West and the Making of California, 1875-1950”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Skylar Masuda, Independent Researcher, US Fulbright Student Research Fellow
  “Object and Authenticity: Investigating Conceptions of Calico at Knott's Berry Farm”

2024

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Robyn Fishman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public History, University of California, Santa Barbara; Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, Glendale Community College
  “Molding Modern Citizens: Women Museum Workers’ Role in Shaping Public Perception of Native Americans at the Southwest Museum, 1920-1950"
• Margaret Spaulding, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
  "The Land of Sunshine and Shadows: Eugenics in California’s Construction and Imagination"

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Scott Hendry, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  "A place for Legends: Outlaws, Cowboys and Icons of the American West”

2023

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Abigal Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
  “Fearful Land: Managing Terror in the American West, 1820-1920”
• Mary Ludwig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  “Incarcerated Nations: Removal and Confinement on Indigenous Lands”
• Brianna Riviere, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis
  “Reel Red Power: Indigenous Activism, Visual Sovereignty, and the Film Industry from 1960-1975

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Justin Estreicher, Ph.D. Candidate, Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History, College of William and Mary
  "Indians Can Never Be Ancient: Nostalgia, Native Americans, and the Temporalities of Race”

2022

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Jillian M. Moore, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Duquesne University
  “Re-Making the Image of the American West: Archiving Pioneer Women and Their Things”

2020/2021

Visiting Scholar Fellow  

• Maura Lucking, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture & Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
  "American Artisan: Design and Race-Making in Industrial Education, 1866-1924,"

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
  “Fiesta Immemorial: Settler and Native Political Economies in Southern California”

2019

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Malcolm Elbright, Independent Researcher
“Pablo Abeita, Isleta Advocate: Biography on Pablo Abeita”
• Theresa Kaminski, Professor Emerita, Department of History and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point  “Queen of the West: Dale Evans, Music, Movies, Television and the Creation of Modern Celebrity”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Alyssa Kreikemeier, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Boston University
“Western Eyes, Western Skies: A Cultural and Environmental History of Air in the Modern American West”

2018

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Michel Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin      “Contesting the Sabbath: A History of Weekly Sacred Times in America, 1848-1920”
• James Snead, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge
“Unknown Women of the Arroyo Seco: Gender, Art, and Anthropology at El Alisal, 1890-1920”

Autry Summer Fellow

• Christopher T. Aplin, Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
“That’s the Only Time It Was Good: Apache Prisoner of War Music and Liberation on the Roads to Fort Sill”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Patrick Burtt, Master’s Student, Washoe Tribe of Nevada, UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program (AIS IDP)
“The Waší∙šiw World Under Fire: State Sanctioned Genocide & the Washoe Tribe of NV & CA in the California Gold Rush- Nevada Silver Rush, 1848-1868”

VIVA Foundation Fellow

• Andrew Fisher, Margaret Hamilton Associate Professor of History, Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program, College of William & Mary
“Strongheart: The Absolutely (Almost) True Story of an Indian Showman”

2017

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Robyn Fishman, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, Glendale Community College
“Go West Young Lady, and Grow Up With the Country: Women, the West, and Professional Opportunity”
• Dr. Kristine K. Ronan, Independent Scholar
“Indian Pop: A Primer”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Hadley Jensen, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center
“Shaped by the Camera: Navajo Weavers and the Photography of Making in the American Southwest, 1880–1945”

2015

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Emanuele Piccardo, Architect, Photographer, Filmmaker, Curator and Founder of the non-profit Archphoto
“Living the Frontier: The Construction of Vision”
• Melissa Poll, Ph.D. Candidate, Drama & Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Beyond Beads and Buckskin: Indigeneity and Globalization on the Contemporary Stage”

Autry Summer Fellow

• Kristina Borrman, Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Utopia at Topolobampo: Communitarian Ideals Situated at the Nexus of International Trade”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Michael Brescia, Associate Director, Head of Public Programs, and Associate Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
“Water Rights and Ranching in Hispanic California and Arizona”

VIVA Foundation Fellow

• Alison Goodrum, Research Professor, Department of Apparel, Manchester Metropolitan University
“Buckskin and Ballgowns: Dressing for the Dude Ranch in Interwar America”

2014

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Mabel Rosenheck, Ph.D. Candidate, Screen Cultures Program, Northwestern University
“Where the Reel West Meets the Real West: Popular Media and the Historiography of the West at the Autry National Center”
• Catherine Newell, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and English Composition, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami Coral Gables, Florida
“The Significance of the Frontier in American Space History: Manifest Destiny, the American West, and the Final Frontier”

Archaeological Collections Research Fellow

• Monica Corpuz, Master's Student, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge
“Unearthing the Mysteries of the Frank Palmer Archaeology Collection”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Kiara Maria Vigil, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Amherst College
“Natives in Transit: Indian Entertainment, Urban Life, and Activism”

VIVA Foundation Fellow

• Elizabeth Oliphant, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
“Charles Lummis, Seeing America First”

2013

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Klint Ericson, Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Sumptuous and Beautiful, As They Were: Architectural Mission, Form, Everyday Life, and Cultural Encounter in a Seventeenth-Century New Mexico”
• Rebecca Scofield, Ph.D. Candidate., Department of American Studies, Harvard University
“Riding Bareback: Gender, Sexuality, and the Performance of Danger in American Rodeo”

VIVA Foundation Fellow

• Natale Zappia, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Whittier College
“Food Frontiers: How Native Consumers and Pathways Forged the Early American West”

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow

• Gabriel Gutierrez, Director for the Study of Peoples of the Americas and Professor, Department of Chicano/a Studies, California State University, Northridge
“California Indians on Rancho Azusa: Labor, Consumption, and Historical Agency”

2012

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Daniel Polk, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University “Conquering Nature: Irrigation Development in the Borderlands, 1892-1910”
• Sonya Abrego, Ph.D. Candidate, Decorative Arts, Design History, Bard Graduate Center
"Westernwear and the Postwar American Lifestyle 1945 -1975"
• Amy Tofte, Playwright
"WhiteDevil-LovingMother" (full length play)

Autry Summer Fellow

• Lawrence W. Mojado II, Master’s Student, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles
"Cupeno Historical Memory: Self, Place, and Story"

Los Angeles Westerners Fellow

• Karen Jones, Senior Lecturer in US and Environmental History, University of Kent, Canterbury
“Horsepower and Heroism on the Equine Frontier: Warhorse and the Winning of the West, 1860-1890”

Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellow

• Sarah McCormick Seekatz, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Riverside
"Blind Date–The creation of an Arabian Fantasy in the Deserts of Southern California"

2011

Visiting Scholar Fellowships

• Brett Myhren, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Southern California
“The Place Without a Past: Literature, History, and Culture in California, 1510–1846”
• Martha Ann Francisca Vallejo-McGettigan, Independent Scholar, Vallejo Family Member
“Francisca Vallejo-McGettigan and the Suysun Tribe”
• David Walker, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
“Contested Geographies: Religion and Land in the American West, 1863–1905”

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Ph.D. Candidate, American History Program, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘Makin’ New Friends Where the West Begins’: Constructing Histories and Images of the San Fernando Valley”

Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship

• Emily McEwen, Ph.D. Candidate, Public History Program, University of California, Riverside
“Dramatize What You Do: Historical Pageantry, Transnational Trade, and the Mission Inn’s Role in Reimagining a Region’s Identity”

Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellowships

• Heather Shannon, Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
“Primitive Camera: Adam Clark Vroman and the American Southwest, 1895–1904”
• Adam Arenson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
“Privately Sponsored Public History: Howard Ahmanson, the Millard Sheets Studio, and the Art and Architecture of the Home Savings Banks”

2010

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Laura Isabel Serna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor History Department, Florida State University
“The Photo-Play Made Mexican”
• Jason Ruiz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
“Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Mexico in the American Imagination, 1876-1920”
• Kirby Pringle, Ph.D. Candidate, Loyola University, Chicago
“Developing the West: Country Music and Western Film in the San Fernando Valley”

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Matthew Luckett, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Trails of Violence, Memories of Yesterday: John Bratt, Vigilantism and the Imagining of the Wild West”
• Michael Richardson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Bound in Battle: Richard, Pratt, American Indians, and the US Army on the Southern Plains, 1867-1875”
• Nicole Goude, Ph.D. Candidate, World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
“Native American Photography: Personal Memories, Public Records”

Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship

• Sarah Keyes, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California
“Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of American, 1820-1900”

Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellowship

• Jennifer Vanore, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
“The Call to Care: Religion and the Making of the Modern Healthcare Industry, 1930-1980”

2009

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Lawrence Culver, Associate Professor, Department of History,
Utah State University
“Manifest Disaster: Climate, Catastrophe and the Making of America”
• Robert Oppenheim, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
“Stewart Culin, Frank H. Cushing, and the Asian Frontier of Early American Anthropology”
• Christopher Frayling, Cultural Historian, Author and Independent Scholar
“Entering our House Justified – the American Western Film Since John Ford”

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Laura Redford, Ph.D. Candidate, American History Program, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles 
  “Separate Spaces: Residential Segregation in Los Angeles 1890s-1920”

Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship

• John Koegel, Associate Professor of Music, California State University, Fullerton
“Mexican-American Music in the Lummis Cylinder Collection”

Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellowship

• John Macias, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Claremont Graduate University
“Mission Memories: Romance and Historical Interpretation in San Gabriel, 1900-1930”

2008

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Erika Perez, Fellow, American Cultures, Loyola Marymount University
“Religious practices of sponsorship for Catholic sacraments in early California”

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Vera Parham, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii, Hilo
“Fishing in the West: Taming an Economy”
• Catherine Cocks, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
“Tropical Whiteness: Tourism, Culture, and the Modern Self, 1880-1940”

  Mary Zundo, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
“Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th Century American Art of the Frontier”

Westerners Fellowship

• Albert Fu, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
“Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival: Popular Culture and Urban Development in Southern California”

2007

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Paul Schwinn, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Representations of race and gender in the popular culture of the U.S. West”

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Anna Bánhegyi, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Southern Methodist University
“Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western”
• James Kessenides, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida
“Natural Possessions: Landscape Visions of Los Angeles, 1876-1911”
• Martin Padget, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
“Travel Writing and the American Southwest, 1540 – present day”
• Michelle Kleehammer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Chasing the Climate Cure in the American West: Geographies of Health and Nation in Late Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century American Culture”

Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship

• Laura Barraclough, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Kalamazoo College
“Rural Urbanism: Land Use Visions and Policies in Suburban Los Angeles.”

2006

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Joshua Paddison, Ph.D., ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indiana University
"American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California"

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Jason Pierce, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Angelo State University, Texas
"Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Promotion, Development, and Settlement of the American West"
• Stacy Camp, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Justice Studies, University of Idaho
"Consuming Citizenship: Early 20th Century Anglo American Consumer Reform Movements in Mexican American Los Angeles,"

Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship

• Thomas G. Andrews, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Ludlow: The Nature of Industrial Struggle in the Colorado Coalfields"

2005

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Karen Wilson, Ph.D., Occidental College-Autry Fellow and Autry Guest Curator
"Mrs. H. Newmark's European Travel Diaries"

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Ph.D., Art History, Concordia University, Montreal
"Gladys Knight Harris: Home Economics, Ethnography and the Politics of Sentiment in Women's Friendship"
• Elizabeth Lykken, School of Design and Fashion, Stephens College
"Western Fringe in Context: Parsing Out the Dimensions of an American Icon"

2004

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Citlali Sosa-Riddel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
"Empire, Local Engagement, and Gender"

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Adrianne Santina, Ph.D., Department of Art History, University of North Texas
"Visible Icons, Invisible People: Tipis in American Popular and Visual Culture,"
• Ruth Ellen Gruber, Independent Researcher
"Sauerkraut Cowboys"

2003

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Marne Campbell, Ph.D., Lecturer, African American Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles
"Race and Revival: A Social History of African American Migration and the Construction of Race in Los Angeles from 1870 through 1920"
• Geneva Gano, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies Programs, Indiana University
"At the Frontier of Precision and Persuasion: John C. Frémont's 1842, 1843-44 Report and Map"
• Cynthia Culver Prescott, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota
"Gender and Generation on the Pacific Slope Frontier, 1845-1900"

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Susan Sessions Rugh, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University
“Children's Television Westerns and the Family Vacation”

2002

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola Marymount University
"Exploring the Hollywood Frontier: American Indian Actors in Early Motion Pictures"

Visiting Scholar Fellowship

• Debra Buchholtz, Ph.D.
"Re-presenting Custer: Cultural Politics on the Little Bighorn"

2001

Autry Summer Fellowship

• Lawrence Culver, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, Utah State University  "Exploring the Frontiers of Leisure: Tourism in the American West"