Previous Woest Fellowship Recipients
In 2005, The Historic New Orleans Collection initiated an annual fellowship to support scholarly research and promote the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South. Following are the previous fellowship recipients:
2006
Jessica Lepler
Doctoral Candidate, Brandeis University
“1837: Anatomy of a Panic”
Greg O’Brien
Associate Professor of History,
University of Southern Mississippi
“The Man Who Saved New Orleans: George Towers Dunbar and
the New Orleans Flood of 1849”
2007
Nathalie Dessens
University of Toulouse – Le Mirail
“Jean Boze, Chronicler of New Orleans”
Vanessa Mongey
University of Pennsylvania
“Cosmopolitan Republics: The Gulf South between 1783 and 1836”
Gautham Rao
University of Chicago
“Visible Hands: Customhouses, the National Market, and Federal Power in Antebellum America”
2008
Marise Bachand, Doctoral Candidate, History
University of Western Ontario
“Plantation Women and the Urban South, 1790–1860”
Patricia Behre, Associate Professor of History
Fairfield University
“Citizens of the World: Sephardic Jews in Early Louisiana”
Shelene Roumillat, Doctoral Candidate, History
Tulane University
“The Battle of New Orleans: New Perspectives on an Epic Confrontation”
The Historic New Orleans Collection gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Dianne Audrey Woest (1935-2003). Through a planned giving arrangement, Woest designated The Collection as a beneficiary of her estate.
