The Thoreau Society is pleased to support scholarly and creative work on Henry David Thoreau, including his writings, life and legacy, through two annual fellowships. In the past, the Thoreau Society Fellowships Committee has given preference to projects that make use of materials at the Walden Woods Project Library in Lincoln, Massachusetts, including The Thoreau Society collections, the Walter Harding Collection, and the Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Archives, as well as materials held in Concord- and Boston-area archives that are not otherwise accessible. The Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family, honors the life and legacy of Marjorie Brook Harding, who worked diligently to bring together the Thoreau Society, the Walden Woods Project, and SUNY Geneseo to advance Thoreau studies and conservation of Thoreau Country and to keep alive the legacy of Walter Harding, Marjorie’s husband, an early leader in Thoreau studies. The fruits of this labor can be seen in the Digital Thoreau Project and in the annual Walter Harding Lecture Series at SUNY Geneseo. 2025 Randall Fuller The Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) fellowship is named in honor of the TCCA, which was formed in the 1980s with leadership from Thoreau Society members and which advocated for the protection of Walden Woods from development. The TCCA fellowship is endowed by two gifts, one in memory of J. Walter Brain, a founding member of TCCA, and a second one in memory of Annette Paradise, who had an abiding love of Walden Pond. The establishment of the fellowship coincided with the acquisition of the J. Walter Brain papers, which detail Mr. Brain’s many decades of advocacy for Walden Woods and his intimate explorations of Walden Woods’ natural and social history. 2025 Marlas Yvonne Whitley The 2025 Call for Applications will be available in January.Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship Awardees
2024 Christine O’Connor
2023 Jessica Conrad
2021 April McGinnis
2020 Christopher Tong
2019 David Leff
2018 David Faflik
2017 Henrik Otterberg
2016 Joseph M. Johnson
2015 Jillmarie Murphy
2014 Janet Beck
2013 Adam Rosenthal
2012 James FinleyThoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) Fellowship Awardees
2024 Andrew Wildermuth
2023 William Slater
2022 Rachael Dewitt
2021 Jenna Gersie
2020 Lucas Nossaman
2019 Jake McGinnis
