Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1999-Present
The American Antiquarian Society has been awarding visiting research fellowships since 1972-73. These stipend-bearing awards have enabled a diverse group of researchers to spend anywhere from one month to a full year in residence at the Society.
| First Name | Last Name |
Cycle |
Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vincent | DiGirolamo | 2000-1 | Colgate University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crying the News: Child Street Trading in America, 1830s-1890s |
| Gretchen | Adams | 2000-1 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Specter of Salem in American Culture |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| Matthew | Hale | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Karen | Weierman | 2000-1 | Worcester State College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870 |
| Howard | Chudacoff | 2000-1 | Brown University | professor | Peterson | Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880 |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2001-2 | University of Puget Sound | assistant professor | NEMLA | At the Bar of Public Opinion: Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism |
| Sally | Promey | 2001-2 | University of Maryland | professor | AHPCS | Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief |
| Barbara | Hochman | 2001-2 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | senior lecturer | NEMLA | Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution |
| David | Narrett | 2001-2 | University of Texas at Arlington | associate professor | ASECS | Borderland Republics: Vermont, West Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union, 1760-1846 |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| David | Silverman | 2001-2 | Princeton University | Ph.D. | Hench | Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 |
| Cynthia | Van Zandt | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | Botein | Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America |
| Michael | Hoeflich | 2001-2 | University of Kansas School of Law | professor | Reese | The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century |
| April | Masten | 2001-2 | visiting assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | The Work of Art | |
| Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
| Lisa | Norwood | 2001-2 | Stanford University | graduate student | Morgan | Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860 |
| Steven | Harthorn | 2002-3 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD candidate | Botein | James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851 |
| Ethan | Robey | 2002-3 | State University of New York at Binghamton | independent scholar | AHPCS | The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
| Robert | Gross | 2002-3 | College of William and Mary | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Transcendentalist and Their World |
| Karsten | Kummer | 2002-3 | University of Bremen | lecturer | Ebeling | Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations |
| Rachel | Lin | 2002-3 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807 |
| Ann | Johnson | 2002-3 | Fordham University | assistant professor | Botein | Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field |
| Janet | Headley | 2002-3 | Loyola College | associate professor | Drawn to Art | Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897 |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870 |
| Joycelyn | Moody | 2002-3 | Hamilton College | Chair, Women's Studies | Peterson | Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | Ph.D. | Hench | Crossing Over: Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America |
| Daniel | Mandell | 2002-3 | Truman State University | assistant professor | Tracy | Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880 |
| James | Sidbury | 2002-3 | University of Texas at Austin | associate professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Conceptions of Africa in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830 |
| Honor | Sachs | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry |
| Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
| Glenn | Hendler | 2002-3 | University of Notre Dame | associate professor | NEMLA | Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Reiner | Smolinski | 2002-3 | Georgia State University | associate professor | Peterson | Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana' |
| Thomas | Coens | 2002-3 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829 |
| Elizabeth | Hawley | 2002-3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD candidate | Reese | American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890 |
| Eliza | Richards | 2002-3 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Michael | Vorenberg | 2002-3 | Brown University | assistant professor | Peterson | Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War |
| Philip | Gura | 2002-3 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | professor | Peterson | Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade |
| Elisa | Tamarkin | 2002-3 | University of California, Santa Barbara | assistant professor | Sigety Family | American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 |
| John | Howe | 2002-3 | University of Minnesota | professor emeritus | ASECS | The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston |
| Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Michael | Everton | 2003-4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Reese | Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture |
| Richard | Bell | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830 |
| Rebecca | McNulty | 2003-4 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Peterson | Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2003-4 | Brandeis | Ph.D. | Hench | A Page, A Day: A History of the Diary in America |
| Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
