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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telesia | Lett | 2016-17 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | Making Money: Alfred Jones and the Business of Engraving |
| Kimberly | Armstrong | 2016-17 | Metropolitan Community College, Omaha | instructor | Reese | ’The Plague is Just as Great Today’: Selling the Subscription Book in Postbellum America |
| Gregory | Nobles | 2016-17 | Georgia Institute of Technology | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Betsey Stockton’s Mission: From Slavery to Freedom, From Princeton to the Pacific |
| Paul | Fess | 2016-17 | City University of New York Graduate Center | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Resonant Texts: The Politics and Practices of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture |
| Mark | Boonshoft | 2016-17 | New York Public Library | Post-doctoral Research Fellow | Alstott-Morgan | Monarchical Education and the Making of the American Republic, 1730-1812 |
| Jessica | Farrell | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | (Re)Capturing Empire: A Reconsideration of Liberia’s Precarious Sovereignty and American Empire as Exception in the Nineteenth Century |
| Johanna | Siebert | 2016-17 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Networks of Taste: The Early African Caribbean Press in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World |
| Juliet | Sperling | 2016-17 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Animating Flatness: Seeing Moving Images in American Painting and Mass Visual Culture, 1800-1895 |
| Kate | Mulry | 2016-17 | California State University, Bakersfield | assistant professor of history | ASECS | Unwholesome Tinctures: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic |
| Jordan | Howell | 2016-17 | University of Delaware | Ph.D. candidate | Reese | The Robinson Crusoe Online Bibliography |
| Brendan | Gillis | 2016-17 | Miami University of Ohio | visiting assistant professor | Hench | Conduits of Justice: Magistrates and the British Imperial State, 1732-1834 |
| Jean | Franzino | 2016-17 | Macalester College | visiting assistant professor of English | Last | Freak Show Aesthetics |
| Susanna | Blumenthal | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | professor of law and associate professor of history | AAS-NEH | Humbug: A Legal History |
| Kirsten | Fischer | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | associate professor of history | Peterson | Vitalism in America: Elihu Palmer’s Radical Religion in the Early Republic |
| Rachel | Knecht | 2016-17 | Brown University | Ph.D. candidate | Lapides | Inventing the Mathematical Economy in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Reed | Gochberg | 2016-17 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Packer | Novel Objects: Museums and Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| D. Berton | Emerson | 2016-17 | Pomona College | visiting assistant professor of English | Botein | Local Rules: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies in Antebellum Print Culture |
| Amanda | Stuckey | 2016-17 | College of William and Mary | Ph.D. candidate | Schiller | Reading Bodies: Disability and the Book in Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Shawna | McDermott | 2016-17 | University of Pittsburgh | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Reading Race: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Periodicals |
| Tara | Bynum | 2016-17 | Rutgers University | Postdoctoral fellow in English | AAS-NEH | Reading Pleasures |
| James | Dupey | 2016-17 | Arizona State University | Ph.D. candidate | Arizona State University | Editor as Clergy: The Power of Print in the Stone-Campbell Movement |
| Justin | Pope | 2016-17 | Beloit College | visiting assistant professor of history | Legacy | Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: How Slave Rebellion Transformed the Atlantic World |
| Jonathon | Booth | 2016-17 | Harvard University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | Criminal Law and Post-Emancipation Society in the Atlantic World |
| Justine | Oliva | 2016-17 | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Botein | Anne C. L. Botta and the Business of Friendship |
| Christopher N. | Phillips | 2016-17 | Lafayette College | associate professor of English | Burkhardt | The Hymnal Before the Notes: A History of Reading and Practice |
| Christina | Michelon | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home |
| Abigail | Cooper | 2016-17 | Brandeis University | assistant professor of history | AAS-NEH | ‘Lord, Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War |
| Angela Pulley | Hudson | 2016-17 | Texas A&M University | associate professor of history | Peterson | Indian Doctresses in the Nineteenth-Century United States |
| AJ | Blandford | 2016-17 | Rutgers University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys |
| Sonia | Di Loreto | 2016-17 | University of Torino | associate professor | Peterson | Margaret Fuller’s Transnational Archive |
| Jennifer | Chuong | 2016-17 | Harvard University | Ph.D. candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Marbling and Projection in Early American Bindings |
| Christy | Pottroff | 2016-17 | Fordham University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | The Mail Gaze: Early American Literature, Letters, and the Post Office |
| Ezra | Greenspan | 2016-17 | Southern Methodist University | Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English | AAS-NEH | The Lives and Times of Frederick Douglass and His Family: A Composite Biography |
| Sophie Heather | Jones | 2016-17 | University of Liverpool | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | From Anglicization to Loyalism: New York, 1691-1783 |
| Gina | Caison | 2016-17 | Georgia State University | associate professor of English | Last | Feather |
| Auréliane | Narvaez | 2016-17 | University of Paris IV-Sorbonne | Ph.D. candidate | d’Héricourt | Mobility of Faith in Early America: Religious Wanderings and Spiritual Journeys |
| Sarah | Schuetze | 2016-17 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | assistant professor of English | Last | Calamity Howl |
| Esther | Jones | 2016-17 | Clark University | associate professor of English | AAS-NEH | Antebellum Black Speculation |
| Natalie | Joy | 2016-17 | Northern Illinois University | assistant professor of history | Peterson | Abolitionists and Indians in the Antebellum Era |
| Catherine | Sasanov | 2016 | poet | Baron | Markd Y (Archives and Invocations) | |
| Susan | Stinson | 2016 | novelist | Hearst | Research for the novel “Tuttle” about the Puritan woman, Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards | |
| Matt | Dellinger | 2016 | nonfiction writer and digital archivist | Baron | The Brooklyn 14th Regiment | |
| Krista | Elrick | 2016 | photographer | Jay and Deborah Last | Retracing Audubon: Contemporary Views | |
| Denise | Miller | 2016 | creative writer | Hearst | Travelogos: African American and the Struggle for Safe Passage | |
| Elizabeth | Eager | 2015-16 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic |
| Dwight | McBride | 2015-16 | Northwestern University | Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, and Performance Studies | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley |
| Sueanna | Smith | 2015-16 | University of South Carolina | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Cultural Work of the Early American Fraternla Sphere |
| Nicholas | Bonneau | 2015-16 | University of Notre Dame | PhD candidate | Peterson | Unspeakable Loss: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765 |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2015-16 | SUNY-Albany | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Redeeming Verse: The Poetics of Revivalism |
| Gillian | Osborne | 2015-16 | University of California, Berkeley | postdoctoral | Packer | Henry David Thoreau and Antebellum Botany |
