wendorf has held research fellowships from the john simon guggenheim memorial foundation, the national endowment for the humanities (at the newberry library), the american council of learned societies (senior and junior fellowships), the folger shakespeare library, the yale center for british art, the huntington library, the british academy, and the american philosophical society. he served for several years as a phi beta kappa lecturer and has twice returned to teach at williams college as a visiting associate professor of english and as the robert sterling clark visiting professor of art history.