Recent Winners of AHA Fellowships
NASA Fellowship
Jenifer Van Vleck is the recipient of the 2007-08 NASA Fellowship. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. She studies the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on the cultural history of U.S. foreign relations. This year, she will be completing her dissertation, "No Distant Places: Commercial Aviation and American Globalism, 1915-1968." Van Vleck argues that aviation inspired a globalist imagination—a way of visualizing the world and the United States' place within it—that proved critical to the ascendance of the United States as a world power. Based on research in ten archives, her project engages with scholarship on empire, nationalism, consumer culture, and globalization. Contributing to the "transnational turn" in historiography, Van Vleck's dissertation uses the history of aviation to examine how the very categories of the national and the global have acquired meaning.
J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History
Lisa Tetrault received the 2006–07 Jameson Fellowship in American History for "The Memory of a Movement: Woman Suffrage and Reconstruction America, 1865–1890."