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Current Fellows and Their Projects

Mellon Distinguished Scholar

Ezra Greenspan, Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University, "William Wells Brown: An African-American Life in Letters"

Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship

April Haynes, Ph.D. in history (2009) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, "Riotous Flesh: Confronting Gender and Sexuality through Grahamite Health Reform, 1830-1860"

AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Emily Pawley, Ph.D. in the History of Science (2009), University of Pennsylvania, "'The Balance Sheet of Nature:' Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860"
Lloyd Pratt, Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University, "The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African-American Literature, 1830-1860"
Tanya Sheehan, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers University, "Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor"
Mary Beth Sievens, Associate Professor of History, SUNY-Fredonia, "The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865"
Michael Winship, Iris Howard Regents Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin, "Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950"

American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, "Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867"

AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship

Albrecht Koschnik, Independent Scholar, "American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850"

Stephen Botein Fellowships

Lynn Casmier-Paz, Associate Professor of English, University of Central Florida, "Slave Literacy, Children's Textbooks, and Antebellum Education"
Mark Alan Mattes, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa, "Letter Interception and Publication During the Era of Good Feelings"

Drawn to Art Fellowship

Gian Domenico Iachini, Lecturer in History, University of Milan, "'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution"

Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship
(jointly sponsored by AAS and the German Association for American Studies)

Alexandra Ganser, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, "(Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900"

Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships

Radiclani Clytus, Assistant Professor of English, Tufts University, "Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual"
Amy Hughes, Assistant Professor of Theater, Brooklyn College, "'Thoughts Bodied Upon the Stage': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867"
Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware, "The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination"
Whitney Martinko, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Virginia, "Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860"
Lyra Monteiro, Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, "Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860"
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, "The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries"
Kelly Ross, Ph.D. Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story"
Jonathan Senchyne, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Cornell University, "'Bottles of Ink, and Reams of Paper': Racial Mixture and Legibility in Antebellum Illustration"
Allison Stagg, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University College, University of London, "American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825"
Arden Stern, Ph.D. Candidate in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, "Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface"

Legacy Fellowship

Spencer Keralis, Ph.D. Candidate in English, New York University, "Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America"

Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship

Carrie Tirado Bramen, Associate Professor of English, SUNY-Buffalo, "American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture"

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships

Joseph Bonica, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University, "Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic"
Jennifer Egloff, Ph.D. Candidate in History, New York University, "Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America"
John Huffman, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University, "Documents of Identity in the Early Republic"
Carrie Hyde, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Rutgers University, "Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868"
Jeffrey Malanson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Boston College, "Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852"
Gustavo Paz, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires, "News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825)"
Yvette Piggush, Assistant Professor of English, Florida International University, "We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840"
Hélène Quanquin, associate professor of English, Universite Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, "'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890"
Wendy Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Northwestern University, "Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America"
James Snead, Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, "The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America"
Jennifer Wilson, Ph.D. Candidate in Music, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein"

Reese Fellowship

Ursula Crosslin, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology, Ohio State University, "The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860"
Seth Perry, Ph.D. Candidate in the Divinity School, University of Chicago, "The Bible and Religious Authority in Early National America, 1770-1850"

Joyce A. Tracy Fellowship

Steven Deyle, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston, "Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan"

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellowships

Ann Lovett, photographer, New Paltz, NY, research for an artists' book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Massachusetts mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
Robert Strong, poet, Canton, NY, research for a book-length work of poetry titled Bright Advent set in the years leading up to King Philip's War

Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowships

Honorée Jeffers, poet, Norman, OK, research for a book of poems titled The Art of Mastering, whose centerpiece is a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley, imagining her interior life
Lauren Yee, playwright, San Francisco, CA, research for a play exploring the concept of performing racial identity in America, particularly with respect to minstrelsy