The Academy of American Franciscan History is dedicated to the continuing research and development of the Franciscan tradition within the Americas. 
         To further this academic and historical pursuit the academy offers Dissertation Fellowships to promote new ideas based on sound and sometimes hard ideas and thoughts.
         The following is a list of current and past winners of the fellowships.  We congratulate them all for their oustanding contribution to the development to American Franciscan History.
Current Winners:

2010
Cameron Jones
Ohio State University
"The Missionaries of Santa Rosa de Ocopa on the Frontiers of Bourbon Peru, 1700 - 1824"





Past Winners:

2009
Mark Christensen
Penn State University
"Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan."

Dorothee Kaupp
Universite Laval
"Space and Missionary Identity: the Franciscan Recollects in New-France during the 17th to 18th Centuries."

2008
Jay T. Harrison
Catholic University of America
"The Formation and Pastoral Thought of Franciscan Missionaries to Texas from the Propaganda Fide Colleges of New Spain, 1690-1821."

Erika R. Hosselkus
Tulane University
"Faith and Final Acts: Franciscans, Nahuas, and Death in Colonial Puebla and Tlaxcala."

2007
David Rex Galindo
Southern Methodist University
"Educating the Mind, Saving the Soul: Franciscans and their Missionary Training in the Colleges for the Propagation of the Faith of New Spain, 1683-1830s."

Veronica Gutierrez
University of California, Los Angeles
"From Mesoamerican Holy Site to Franciscan EvangelizationCenter: Nahuas, Friars, and the Negotiation of Christianity in 16th Century San Pedro Cholula."

Jonathan Truitt
Tulane University
"Constructing Colonial Society: Franciscans and Nahuas at Mexico City's Friaty of San Francisco, 1524-1700."
Completed 2009

2005
Nuno Senos
New York University
“Franciscan Patronage in Northeastern Brazil (1650-1800).”
Completed

2004
Andrea Lepage
Brown University
“The Arts of the Franciscan Colegio de San Andres in Quito: A Process of Cultural (Re)formation.”  
Completed

2003
Jose Refugio de la Torre Curiel
University of California, Berkeley
"Conquering the Frontier: Contests for Religion, Survival and Profits in Sonora, 1768-1835"
Completed

Guillermo Antonio Najera Najera
El Colegio de Mexico
"Los franciscanos de las Provincias de Mexico y Michoacan durante la epoca tridentina, 1572-1749"


2001
Paul-Andre Dubois
Universite Laval, Quebec City
"Sung Liturgy in Vernacular Languages in Indian Missions of New France During the 17th and 18th Centuries"
Completed

2000
Maria M. Marsilli Cardoza
Emory University
"God and Evil in the Gardens of the Andean South: Mid-Colonial Rural Religion in the Diocese of Arequipa"
Completed 2003

Kristin Dutcher Mann
Northern Arizona University
"The Power of Song: Music in the Missions of Northern New Spain"
Completed 2003