2020/2021

Visiting Scholar Fellow  

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

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Fellow  

• Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Fiesta Immemorial: Settler and Native Political Economies in Southern California PhD Candidate in History at Columbia University

2019

Visiting Scholar Fellows

• Malcolm Elbright, Visiting Scholar Fellow, Pablo Abeita, Isleta Advocate
  Biography on Pablo Abeita
• Theresa Kaminski; Department of History and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Visiting Scholar Fellow
  “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 in American Studies, Boston University, Los Angeles
  “Corral of Westerners Fellow, “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 in 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 Cal 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, Masters 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, 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"