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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Sharada | Orihuela | 2015-16 | University of Maryland, College Park | assistant professor | NeMLA | Counterfeit Colony: Bootleg Currency and the Revolutionary Market |
| Jordan | Watkins | 2015-16 | Utah Valley University | adjunct | Peterson | 'Another Attucks': The African-American Response to Dred Scott |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
