The 2025 Fellowship Award Winners
Reward of merit (ca. 1850). Library Company of Philadelphia.
The BSA is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Fellowship awards. This year’s fellows represent a diverse and exceptional cohort of bibliographers whose research promises to illuminate critical aspects of textual studies.
The 2025 Fellows’ projects span a remarkable range of topics, from the intricacies of early modern bookshops to the impact of federal funding on postwar American literature. We are particularly excited to support research that explores the evolution of print culture across continents and centuries. Themes emerging from this year’s awards include the vital roles of research and private collections, the complex dynamics of textual transmission and reuse, and the intersection of material texts with social and political power. Projects such as Johannes A. P. Makar’s work on the Coptic publishing industry, Jamie Danis’s study of Cy Twombly’s personal library, and Anna Kroon’s use of material artifacts in a study of copyright history demonstrate the breadth highlight the breadth and depth of bibliographical inquiry at the cutting edge of the field.
The BSA is proud to recognize these groundbreaking projects through our Fellowship Program, and we eagerly anticipate the contributions these scholars will make to our understanding of the bibliography.
We extend our warmest congratulations to all the 2025 Fellows!
The 2025 Fellowship Award Winners
Andreas Bassett, University of Washington: “From Bookshop to Auction Block: The Sign of Ben Jonson’s Head in Late Seventeenth Century London” (BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography)
Rachel Beaver, Yale University: “Writing at the Edge of Empire: The Styli of Oxyrhynchus and Dura Europos” (BSA–Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)
Jamie Danis, University of Cambridge: “Ex Libris Twombly” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)
Mitchell Edwards, Rutgers University at New Brunswick: “Movement Literatures in the Postwar U.S. Literary Field” (Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas)
Timothy Gress, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Private Books and Public Knowledge: The Commercialization and Institutionalization of Literature in the Early-Twentieth Century” (BSA–Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)
Anna Kroon, Texas Tech University: “Text Reuse Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Chapbooks for Understanding Copyright” (Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades)
Johannes A. P. Makar, Harvard University: “The Coptic Publishing Industry and Arabic Intellectual Revival in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt (1860-1920)” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)
Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia: “‘Diligent Search’ into the Folger’s Copy 6 of John Gerard’s Herball (1597)” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)
Su-Yeon Seo, Cornell University: “Pleasure of Information: Literary Writing and Epistemic Landscape of Qing China” (BSA–ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century)
Nailya Shamgunova, University of East Anglia: “Libraries are not for promiscuous crowds: English and Scottish travellers’ engagement with French libraries in the 17th century” (BSA–Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography)
Arielle Steimer-Barragán, University of California at Irvine: “Binding Text and Power: Women Printers and the Pursuit of Empire, 1550-1698” (BSA–Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography)
Nick Sturm, Georgia State University: “The NEA and Small Press Publishing: How Federal Funding Shaped Literary Production and Distribution” (BSA–St. Louis Mercantile Library Fellowship)
Christopher Walsh, Rutgers University: “Collecting Fight Books & Building Martial Arts: Library Collections, Knowledge Dissemination, and Book Culture in Historical European Martial Arts” (Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers)
Carlisle Yingst, Linda Hall Library, University of Missouri at Kansas City: “Transitions by the Book: Print and the (Re)making of Gender in Long-18th-century Britain” (Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades)
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.