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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gillian | Osborne | 2015-16 | University of California, Berkeley | postdoctoral | Packer | Henry David Thoreau and Antebellum Botany |
| Ben | Wright | 2015-16 | Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College | assistant professor | Peterson | Antislavery and American Salvation |
| Tyesha | Maddox | 2015-16 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Invisible to Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940 |
| Amy | Sopcak-Joseph | 2015-16 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877 |
| Jim | Casey | 2015-16 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Botein | Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849 |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2015-16 | Villanova University | assistant professor | Hench Post Dissertation | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1785-1860 |
| Hunter | Price | 2015-16 | Western Washington University | visiting assistant professor | Reese | The Traveling Connexion: Religion, Capital, and the Origins of the South Middle Class, 1760-1830 |
| Kabria | Baumgartner | 2015-16 | College of Wooster | assistant professor | Peterson | The Work of Time and Love: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America |
| Clay | Zuba | 2015-16 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Apess' Eulogy, Narrative Visualcy, and the Shpaes of Sovereignty |
| Don | McLaughlin | 2015-16 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Touching Phobia: Viral Affect and the Madicalization of Fear in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature |
| Whitney | Stewart | 2015-16 | Rice University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Domestic Activism: The Politics of the Black Home in Nineteenth-Century America |
| William | Coleman | 2015-16 | Washington University in St. Louis | Postdoctoral Fellow | Last | Domestic Bliss: The Artist and the Country House in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Joseph | Rezek | 2015-16 | Boston University | assistant professor | Botein | Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture |
| Nicole | Belolan | 2015-16 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Last | Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861 |
| Colleen | Boggs | 2015-16 | Dartmouth College | professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature |
| Robert | Mills | 2015-16 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Pirate and the Sovereign |
| Christa | Vogelius | 2015-16 | University of Copenhagen | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Seth | Cotlar | 2015-16 | Willamette University | professor | Last | When the Olden Days Were New: A Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860 |
| Blevin | Shelnutt | 2015-16 | New York University | PhD candidate | AHPC | New York City's Broadway and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture |
| Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Christine | DeLucia | 2015-16 | Mount Holyoke College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Itineraries: Seasons of History in the Native Northeast and Ezra Stiles' New England |
| Katherine | Mintie | 2015-16 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Last | Legal Lenses: Intellectual Property Laws and American Photography, 1839-1890 |
| Leonard | von Morze | 2015-16 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Reese | Contextualizing Christian Jacob Hutter: German-American Printing and Book Distribution in the Atlantic World |
| Ben | Davidson | 2015-16 | New York University | PhD candidate | Schiller | Freedom's Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation |
| Kate | Silbert | 2015-16 | Univeristy of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | 'Committed to Memory': Gender, Literary Engagement, and Commemorative Practice, 1780-1830 |
| Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
| Amy | Hughes | 2015-16 | Brooklyn College (CUNY) | associate professor | AAS-NEH | An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Brian | Carroll | 2015-16 | Central Washington University | assistant professor of history | AAS-ASECS | Burning the Hearts of the Dead: Medicine, Migration, and New England Vampire Belief, 1782-1819 |
| Rachel | Walker | 2015-16 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | A Beautiful Mind: Reading Faces in the Ango-Atlantic World, 1760-1860 |
| Annie | Dwyer | 2015-16 | University of Washington | part-time lecturer | Lapides | Pets and Punishment in American Children's Literature |
| Robin | Smith | 2015-16 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Legacy | The 'Iron Harp': Encountering the Industrial Soundscape in the 1840s and 1850s |
| David | Blake | 2015-16 | Stony Brook, NY | lecturer | Tracy | Between Campus and Community: Popular Music in American College Student Life, 1850-1872 |
| Christen | Mucher | 2015-16 | Smith College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Before American History |
| Stephanie | Carpenter | 2015 | Hancock, MI | fiction writer | Hearst | Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas |
| Annie | Bissett | 2015 | Northampton, MA | printmaker | Jay and Deborah Last | research for a project about the spirituality/religiosity of American national identity |
| Erin | Lyons | 2015 | Washington, DC | fiction writer | Hearst | research for historical novel about Anne Hutchinson and Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630-1638, told from the point of view of a servant girl |
| 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 |
