SCHOLARSHIP Since 2007, the NSLM has hosted over 60 research Fellows honoring the legacy of sportsman and book collector John H. Daniels (19212006). Past Fellowship recipients include post-graduate students, authors, curators, professors, and scholars researching a variety of subjects related to field sports. The diversity of Fellows’ projects re�lects the wide variety of material within the F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room and the NSLM collections. Topics included history, art, literature, anthropology, and sport, with research projects ranging from the architecture of horse stables, history of horsemanship, equestrian fashion, and poetry, to falconry, veterinary science, environmental conservation, and �ly fishing. Front cover of Sidesaddle, 1690 – 1935 exhibition catalog authored by 2016 John H. Daniels Fellow, Dr. Ulrike Elisabeth Weiss and George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator Claudia Pfeiffer
2018 Fellows Matthew “Duke” Biscotti, Geneva, OH
“American and British Sporting Periodicals”
Dr. Charles Caramello, Bethesda, MD
“Equitation Between the Two World Wars”
Dr. Charles Caramello is a Professor of English, and the Senior Advisor for Graduate Education at The University of Maryland. He was first accepted as a John H. Daniels Fellow for 2017 and conducted his research using several editions of Pembroke’s and Tyndale’s works in the NSLM’s collections. The book resulting from that research, Eighteenth Century Equitation: “Military Equitation; A Method of Breaking Horses and Teaching Soldiers to Ride” by The Earl of Pembroke & “A Treatise on Military Equitation” by William Tyndale with notes and commentary by Charles Caramello, was published in 2018. Dr. Caramello returned as a John H. Daniels Fellow for 2018 and is currently completing a book-in-progress, Horsemen, Horse Soldiers, and Grand Illusions, and is conducting research in the NSLM archives for a projected book on equitation between the two World Wars.
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Michael Cronin, Boston College, Dublin Ireland
“James Brendan Connolly - The First Olympian” Matthew Lockhart, Charleston, SC
“The Ecology of Early American Duck-Shooting Preserves” Eliza McGraw, Washington D.C.
“American Horsewoman”
Kathryn Waldo, Middleburg, VA
“Origins of Classical Horsemanship”
