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
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Aston	Gonzalez	2011-12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
John	Demos	2011-12	Yale University	Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Claire	Gherini	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Matthew	Garrett	2011-12	Wesleyan University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic
Nicolas	Barreyre	2011-12	University Paris Ouest Nanterre	assistant professor	Tracy	Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Jeffrey	Groves	2011-12	Harvey Mudd College	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
Carsten	Junker	2011-12	University of Bremen	assistant professor	Ebeling	Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Matthew	Amato	2011-12	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	AAS-NEH	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Amber	LaPiana	2011-12	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Mapping Literary Regionalism
Julien	Mauduit	2011-12	Universite du Quebec a Montreal	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials
Wendy	Bellion	2011-12	University of Delaware	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory
Benjamin	Cooper	2011-12	Washington University in St Louis	lecturer	Peterson	Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
Lara	Cohen	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Jonathan	Nash	2011-12	University at Albany, SUNY	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850
Adam	Gordon	2011-12	UCLA	Ph.D. in English	Hench	Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America
Gina Marie	Caison	2011-12	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper
Christine	DeLucia	2011-12	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78)
Allison	Lange	2011-12	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920
Carolyn	Eastman	2011-12	University of Texas	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print
Dominique	Zino	2011-12	CUNY Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Natalie	Deibel	2011-12	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Michelle	Burnham	2011-12	Santa Clara University	professor	ASECS	The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific
Jack	Larkin	2011-12	Clark University	affiliate professor	AAS-NEH	David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
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
Lisa	Hayes	2011	Bowie, MD	playwright	Baron	research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Cam	Terwilliger	2011	Somerville, MA	fiction writer	Baron	research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War
Kelle	Groom	2011	New Smyrna Beach, FL	poet	Hearst	research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
Mary Beth	Ellis	2011	Cincinnati, OH	non-fiction writer	Jay and Deborah Last	research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers"
Daegan	Miller	2010-11	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Meredith	Bak	2010-11	University of California, Santa Barbara	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Christopher	Oliver	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
Christopher	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
Jessica	Collier	2010-11	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
Daniel	Lewis	2010-11	Northern Virginia Community College	assistant professor	Last	The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
Sean	Harvey	2010-11	Northern Illinois University	visiting assistant professor	AAS-NEH	American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction

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