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, PhD 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, and curator and founder of the non-profit publisher Archphoto
“Living the Frontier: the Construction of Vision” - Melissa Poll, PhD Candidate, Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Beyond Beads and Buckskin: Indigeneity and Globalization on the Contemporary Stage”
Autry Summer Fellow
- Kristina Borrman, PhD student, Art History, UCLA
“Utopia at Topolobampo: Communitarian Ideals Situated at the Nexus of International Trade”
Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow
- Dr. 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
- Dr. 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, PhD candidate, Screen Cultures, 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, MA Student, 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, American Studies, Amherst College
“Natives in Transit: Indian Entertainment, Urban Life, and Activism”
VIVA Foundation Fellow
- Elizabeth Oliphant, PhD Candidate, English Department, 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 in American Studies, Harvard University.
“Riding Bareback: Gender, Sexuality, and the Performance of Danger in American Rodeo”
- Dr. Natale Zappia, Assist. Professor of History, Whittier College.
“Food Frontiers: How Native Consumers and Pathways Forged the Early American West”
Funds provided by the Viva Foundation
Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow
- Dr. Gabriel Gutierrez, Director for the Study of Peoples of the Americas and Professor, Chicano/a Studies, Cal State University Northridge.
“California Indians on Rancho Azusa: Labor, Consumption, and Historical Agency”
2012
Visiting Scholar Fellows
- Daniel Polk, PhD candidate, Princeton University, Department of Anthropology
“Conquering Nature: Irrigation Development in the Borderlands, 1892-1910”
- Sonya Abrego, PhD. Candidate, The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History
"Westernwear and the Postwar American Lifestyle 1945 -1975"
- Amy Tofte, playwright,
"WhiteDevil-LovingMother" (full length play)
Autry Summer Fellow
- Lawrence W. Mojado II, Masters student, UCLA, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
"Cupeno Historical Memory: Self, Place, and Story"
Los Angeles Westerners Fellow
- Dr. 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, PhD Candidate, UC Riverside
"Blind Date–The creation of an Arabian Fantasy in the Deserts of Southern California"
2011
Visiting Scholar Fellowships
- Brett Myhren, PhD Candidate, 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 and Vallejo Family Member
“Francisca Vallejo-McGettigan and the Suysun Tribe”
- David Walker, PhD Candidate, Department of Religious, Yale University
“Contested Geographies: Religion and Land in the American West, 1863–1905”
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Doctoral Candidate, American History, UCLA
“‘Makin’ New Friends Where the West Begins’: Constructing Histories and Images of the San Fernando Valley”
Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship
- Emily McEwen, PhD Candidate, Public History, 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, PhD student, Art History, Rutgers
“Primitive Camera: Adam Clark Vroman and the American Southwest, 1895–1904”
- Adam Arenson, Assistant Professor, 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, PhD, Assistant Professor of History Department, Florida State University
“The Photo-Play Made Mexican”
- Jason Ruiz, PhD, 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, PhD candidate, Loyola University, Chicago
“Developing the West: Country Music and Western Film in the San Fernando Valley”
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Matthew Luckett, PhD candidate, History Department, UCLA
“Trails of Violence, Memories of Yesterday: John Bratt, Vigilantism and the Imagining of the Wild West”
- Michael Richardson, PhD candidate, History Department, UCLA
“Bound in Battle: Richard, Pratt, American Indians, and the US Army on the Southern Plains, 1867-1875”
- Nicole Goude, PhD candidate, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
“Native American Photography: Personal Memories, Public Records”
Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship
- Sarah Keyes, PhD candidate, University of Southern California
“Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of American, 1820-1900”
Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellowship
- Jennifer Vanore, PhD 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”
- Sir Christopher Frayling, Cultural historian, author and independent scholar
“Entering our House Justified – the American Western Film Since John Ford”
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Laura Redford, PhD candidate, American History, UCLA
“Separate Spaces: Residential Segregation in Los Angeles 1890s-1920”
Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship
- Dr. John Koegel, Associate Professor of Music, CSU Fullerton
“Mexican-American Music in the Lummis Cylinder Collection”
Jonathan Heritage Foundation Fellowship
- John Macias, PhD candidate in 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, Los Angeles
“Religious practices of sponsorship for Catholic sacraments in early California”
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Vera Parham, Assistant Professor, History, University of Hawaii, Hilo
“Fishing in the West: Taming an Economy”
- Catherine Cocks, PhD, Independent Scholar
“Tropical Whiteness: Tourism, Culture, and the Modern Self, 1880-1940”
“The Pleasures of Degeneration: Climate, Race, and the Origins of the Global Tourist South in the Americas,” Discourse (June 2009): 215-235.
- Mary Zundo, PhD candidate, 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, PhD candidate, History Department, UCLA
Representations of race and gender in the popular culture of the U.S. West.
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Anna Bánhegyi, PhD candidate, History, Southern Methodist University
“Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western”
- James Kessenides, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida
“Natural Possessions: Landscape Visions of Los Angeles, 1876-1911”
- Dr. Martin Padget, PhD, Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
“Travel Writing and the American Southwest, 1540 – present day”
- Michelle Kleehammer, doctoral 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, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Kalamazoo College
“Rural Urbanism: Land Use Visions and Policies in Suburban Los Angeles.”
2006
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Joshua Paddison, PhD, ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellow,Indiana University
"American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California"
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Jason Pierce, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas
"Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Promotion, Development, and Settlement of the American West" - Stacy Camp, PhD, 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, PhD, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Ludlow: The Nature of Industrial Struggle in the Colorado Coalfields"
2005
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Karen Wilson, PhD, Occidental College-Autry Fellow and Autry Guest Curator
"Mrs. H. Newmark's European Travel Diaries"
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, PhD, 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, PhD candidate, UCLA
"Empire, Local Engagement, and Gender"
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Adrianne Santina, PhD, University of North Texas, Art History
"Visible Icons, Invisible People: Tipis in American Popular and Visual Culture," - Ruth Ellen Gruber
"Sauerkraut Cowboys"
2003
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Marne Campbell, PhD, Lecturer, African American Studies, UCLA
"Race and Revival: A Social History of African American Migration and the Construction of Race in Los Angeles from 1870 through 1920" - Geneva Gano, PhD, 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, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota
"Gender and Generation on the Pacific Slope Frontier, 1845-1900"
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- Susan Sessions Rugh, PhD, Professor of History at Brigham Young University
Children's Television Westerns and the Family Vacation
2002
Autry Summer Fellowship
- Nicolas G. Rosenthal, PhD, Assistant Professor 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, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History, Utah State University
"Exploring the Frontiers of Leisure: Tourism in the American West"