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
Justin	Clark	2012-13	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870
Jessie	Morgan-Owens	2012-13	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
Birte	Christ	2012-13	Justus-Liebig-University Giessen	assistant professor	Ebeling	A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Matthew	Sivils	2012-13	Iowa State University	assistant professor	Schiller	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Brian	Valencia	2012-13	Yale University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Andrea	Zittlau	2012-13	University of Rostock	research assistant	Ebeling	Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Christopher	Apap	2012-13	Oakland University	special lecturer	Peterson	The Genius of the Place
Jonathan	Den Hartog	2012-13	Northwestern College	associate professor	AHPCS	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Brian	Luskey	2012-13	West Virginia University	assistant professor	Tracy	Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
Melanie	Hernandez	2012-13	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Michael	D'Alessandro	2012-13	Boston University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
Christopher	Castiglia	2012-13	Pennsylvania State University	Liberal Arts Research Professor of English	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Molly	Farrell	2012-13	Ohio State University	assistant professor	ASECS	Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
David	Anthony	2012-13	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	AAS-NEH	The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
Christopher	Phillips	2012-13	Lafayette College	assistant professor	Lapides	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Christine	Croxall	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city
Neil	Kamil	2012-13	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Jessica	Linker	2012-13	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Last	'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Scott	McLaren	2012-13	York University	associate professor	Botein	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Daniel	Mandell	2012-13	Truman State University	professor	AAS-NEH	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Alpen	Razi	2012-13	University of Toronto	PhD candidate	Legacy	Colored Citizens of the World
Christopher	Hunter	2012-13	California Institute of Technology	assistant professor	Reese	A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
Mairin	Odle	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
Randi	Lewis	2012-13	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
Dawn	Peterson	2012-13	New York University	Ph.D. in American Studies	Hench	Unusual Sympathies: Settler Imperialism, Slavery, and the Politics of Adoption in the Early U.S. Republic
Sarah	Beetham	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
Jennifer	Manion	2012-13	Connecticut College	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Molly	Hardy	2012-13	Southwestern University	post-doc fellow	NEMLA	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Claire	Parfait	2012-13	Universite de Paris 13	professor	Reese	African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Nancy	Bowen	2012	Brooklyn, NY	artist, mixed media	Jay and Deborah Last	research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs"
Catherine	Reid	2012	Asheville, NC	writer, essayist	Baron	research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Anne	Harley	2012	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	Hearst	research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record
Deborah	Brevoort	2012	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Baron	research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia

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