NavigationDirectory 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 |
Date |
Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara | Smith | 2015 | Greenfield, MA | choreographer | Baron | research for a movement-theatre piece about the life and work of a fictional 19th century geologist and prophet |
| Jeanne | Schinto | 2015 | Andover, MA | non-fiction writer and journalist | Baron | research for 3-part series about the Walpole Society |
| Adam | Jortner | 2014-15 | Auburn University | Assistant Professor of History | ASECS | Witchcraft and the Rise of American Religious Freedom, 1626-1789 |
| Katherine | Smoak | 2014-15 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Last | Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and Its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic |
| James | Dun | 2014-15 | Princeton University | Assistant Professor of History | Tracy | Dangerous Neighbors |
| Melanie | Kiechle | 2014-15 | Virginia Tech University | Assistant Professor of History | AAS-NEH | Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century America |
| Katherine | Miller | 2014-15 | University of Virginia | Ph.D. Candidate in Art and Architectural History | Drawn to Art | The Office of the Supervising Architect's Experiments with Architectural Representation: Prints & Photographs |
| Lauren | Barbeau | 2014-15 | Washington University in St Louis | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | 'Worth of a Happier Domestic Fate': Domesticity as the Property of White Women |
| Jonathan | Yeager | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Assistant Professor of History | Reese | Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture |
| Heather | Kopelson | 2014-15 | University of Alabama | Assistant Professor of History | Last | Idolatrous Processions: The Production of Peoples and Places in the Atlantic World |
| Amy | Torbert | 2014-15 | University of Delaware | Ph.D. in Art History | AHPCS | Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840 |
| Carol | Faulkner | 2014-15 | Syracuse University | Associate Professor of History | Peterson | The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Sean | Moore | 2014-15 | University of New Hampshire | Associate Professor of History | AAS-NEH | Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade |
| Max | Mishler | 2014-15 | New York University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Boundaries of Freedom: Abolition, Punishment, and the Atlantic Origins of Mass Incarceration |
| Benjamind | Bascom | 2014-15 | University of IL, Urbana-Champaign | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early United States |
| Richard | Bushman | 2014-15 | Columbia University | Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Farmers in the Production of the Nation |
| Ben | Lafferty | 2014-15 | Queen Mary, University of London | Ph.D. in History | Fulbright | A Marketplace of Ideas: Printed Culture and Communications in Federalist Era New England |
| Colleen | Tripp | 2014-15 | Brown University | Ph.D. Candidate in Afro-American Studies | Last | Pacific Sensations: The Beginnings of American Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Culture |
| Christopher | Florio | 2014-15 | Princeton University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1877 |
| Will | Slauter | 2014-15 | University of Paris 8 (Saint Denis) | Lecturer in English and American Studies | AAS-NEH | Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective |
| Justine | Murison | 2014-15 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Associate Professor of English | NEMLA | American Infidelity: Secularity, Slavery, and the Making of U.S. Fiction |
| Julia | Bernier | 2014-15 | University of MA, Amherst | Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies | Legacy | A Papered Freedom |
| Claudia | Bushman | 2014-15 | Columbia University | Professor of American Studies emerita | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Boston in 1870 |
| Drew | Lopenzina | 2014-15 | Old Dominion University | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Cultural Biography of William Apess |
| Kathleen | Walkup | 2014-15 | Mills College | Professor of Book Arts | Botein | Printing at the Margins |
| Mary | Fuhrer | 2014-15 | independent scholar | Last | Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England, 1820-1840 | |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2014-15 | Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 | Associate Professor | Jenny d'Hericourt | From The Liberator to The Nation: The Periodical Legacies of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips |
| Daniel | Radus | 2014-15 | Cornell University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | The Eulogy on Tour: Kinship and the Transnational History of Native New England |
| RJ | Boutelle | 2014-15 | Vanderbil University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism |
| Trenton | Jones | 2014-15 | The Johns Hopkins University | PhD in History | Hench | Deprived of their Liberty': Enemy Prisoners and the Culture of War in Revolutionary America |
| Maura | Lyons | 2014-15 | Drake University | Associate Professor of Art History | Last | Popular Depictions of the 'Natural' Body of the Union Soldier |
| Joanne | Wegner | 2014-15 | University of Minnesota | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Captive Economies: Commodified Bodies in Colonial New England, 1630-1763 |
| J. | Garrison | 2014-15 | University of Delaware | Professor in the Winterthur Program in american Material Culture | Last | Freight and the Commercial Landscapes of the Atlantic World, 1650-1860 |
| Heike | Steinhoff | 2014-15 | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | Assistant Professor of American Studies | Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship | Sex in the City: Urban Sexuality in American Literature and Culture |
| Lindsay | Regele | 2014-15 | Brown University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy, and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840 |
| Urvashi | Chakravarty | 2014-15 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Assistant Professor of English | Lapides | Serving Like a Free Man: Labor, Liberty, and Consent in Early Modern England |
| Betsy | Erkkila | 2014-15 | Northwestern University | Professor of English | AAS-NEH | Imagining the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Insurrectionary America |
| Leila | Mansouri | 2014-15 | University of CA, Berkeley | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | Constituent Characters |
| Anne | Anderson | 2014-15 | Exeter University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | The Morse Collection at the American Antiquarian Society |
| Peter | Wirzbicki | 2014-15 | University of Chicago | Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper/Schmidt Society of Fellows | Packer | Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists |
| Douglas | Guerra | 2014-15 | SUNY, Oswego | Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing | Last | On the Move: Gaming Models for Literary Theory |
| Brian | Rouleau | 2014-15 | Texas A&M University | Assistant Professor of History | Schiller | Empire's Children: Youth Culture and the Expansionist Impulse |
| Katy | Chiles | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee | Assistant Professor of English | Botein | Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature |
| Linford | Fisher | 2014-15 | Brown University | Assistant Professor of History | AAS-NEH | The Land of the Unfree: Africans, Indians, and the Varieties of Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England and the Atlantic World |
| Hilary | Miller | 2014-15 | Penn State University, Harrisburg | Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies | Last | The National Road and the Expansion of American Culture, 1811-1850 |
| Elizabeth | Athens | 2014-15 | Yale University | Ph.D. Candidate in Art History | Last | Figuring a World: William Bartram's Natural History |
| Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
| Sarah | Stern | 2014 | Red Hook, NY | playwright | Hearst | research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s |
| Meganne | Fabrega | 2014 | Portsmouth, NH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for book title "Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls." Book will blend woman's history, art history, LGTB history, biography, and memoir |
| Holly | Wendt | 2014 | Casper, WY | novelist | Baron | research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716 |
