Christy Gordon Baty

Awards and Grants

Award and Grants

• Outstanding Thesis Award, University of Nebraska at Kearney Graduate Council, 2023-2024 Academic Year

• Embroiderers' Guild of America Research Fellowship Grant, 2024

• Esther Inglis Public Humanities Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2024

• Visiting Fellow, Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, 2023-2024

• UNK Research Services Council grant awarded May, 2022 to conduct research on embroidered book bindings which adorned religious and devotional books at the Huntington Library in California, USA

• Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, grant awarded July, 2022 for research at the British Library on the topic of early modern religious texts, Protestant women’s education, and embroidered book bindings

• Agnes Strickland Prize for best talk delivered by a junior scholar for “Elizabethan Embroidery: Gloriana’s Gifts and the Power of the Needle.”  Presented at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, March 2021.