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Anthony E. Kaye Fellowship

Anthony E. “Tony” Kaye was an expert in African-American and Civil War history at Pennsylvania State University, and served as associate editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era. His 2007 book, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, was celebrated as a pioneering and influential study of the social geography of slavery that challenged conventional ideas about community and social relationships among enslaved people.

At the Center, he held the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship in 2015–2016, working on his project Taking Canaan: Rethinking the Nat Turner Revolt. He then served as Vice President for Scholarly Programs for the Center from 2016 to 2017, before his untimely passing in May 2017.

The Anthony E. Kaye Fellowship was established with the support of the Center’s Board of Trustees and a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to honor Tony’s legacy of scholarly excellence.

2017–2018	Shahla Talebi	Arizona State University	The Living Monuments of Mourning: Contested Martyrdoms in Post-revolutionary Iran
2018–2019	Honor Sachs	University of Colorado Boulder	Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family
2019–2020	Daniel Livesay	Claremont McKenna College	Endless Bondage: Old Age in New World Slavery
2020–2021	Crystal R. Sanders	Pennsylvania State University	America’s Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners’ Quest for Graduate Education in the Age of Jim Crow
2021–2022	Oscar de la Torre	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Enyoró: A Collective Biography of Black Matanzas (Cuba) from Slavery to Nation-Making‚ 1835–1898
2022–2023	Patricia A. Matthew	Montclair State University	Gender, Sugar, and the Afterlives of Abolition
2023–2024	Lisa A. Lindsay	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Unity”: African Women and Resistance in the Atlantic Slave Trade
2024–2025	Susanna Lee	North Carolina State University	Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US-Dakota War