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
Catherine	Reid	2012	Asheville, NC	writer, essayist	Baron	research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Anne	Harley	2012	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	Hearst	research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record
Deborah	Brevoort	2012	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Baron	research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
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
Carsten	Junker	2011-12	University of Bremen	assistant professor	Ebeling	Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates
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
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
Adam	Gordon	2011-12	UCLA	Ph.D. in English	Hench	Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America
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
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
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Yvette	Piggush	2011-12	Florida International University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850
Sari	Altschuler	2011-12	City University of New York, The Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Legacy	National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
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"
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
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

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