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
JoAnne	Thomas	2000-1	Western Michigan University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War
Louise	Stevenson	2000-1	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
David	Anthony	2000-1	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale	assistant professor	NEMLA	White-Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America
William	van Arragon	2000-1	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
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
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
Cynthia	Van Zandt	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Botein	Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early 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
Michael	Hoeflich	2001-2	University of Kansas School of Law	professor	Reese	The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century
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
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
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Karsten	Kummer	2002-3	University of Bremen	lecturer	Ebeling	Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations
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'
Michael	Jarvis	2003-4	University of Rochester	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815
Ellen	Gilbert	2003-4	Rutgers University	independent scholar	Peterson	St. Wulstan Society Papers
Martha	Rojas	2003-4	Stanford University	PhD candidate	NEMLA	Diplomatic Letters
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr

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