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.
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Last Name | Date | Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Stephen | Nissenbaum | 1978-79 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | professor | Daniels | Literature and Society in Jacksonian America: Writers Confront the Marketplace, |
Stephen | Simons | 1997 | The Peter Rouget | teacher | K-12 | Middle School American istory Curriculum on Cookbooks of the Early Republic |
Stephen | Marini | 1988-89 | Wellesley College | professor | AAS-NEH | Religion in the American Revolution |
Stephen | Nissenbaum | 1984-85 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | professor | RA | The Battle for Christmas in America, 1800-1870 |
Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
Stephen | Marini | 1988-89 | Wellesley College | professor | AAS-NEH | Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America |
Stephen | Middleton | 1994-95 | North Carolina State University | associate professor | Peterson | The Black Laws of Ohio |
Stephen | Nissenbaum | 1991-92 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | professor | AAS-NEH | Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter |
Stephanie | Carpenter | 2015 | Hancock, MI | fiction writer | Hearst | Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas |
Stephanie | Solomon | 2010 | Hermosa Beach, CA | performer | Jay and Deborah Last | research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution" |
Stephanie | Wolff | 2013 | Norwich, VT | artist, visual | Jay and Deborah Last | research for a suite of artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of anna Blackwood Howell |
Steffi | Dippold | 2013-14 | Stanford University | lecturer | Reese | Plain as in Primitive |
Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
Sophie Heather | Jones | 2016-17 | University of Liverpool | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | From Anglicization to Loyalism: New York, 1691-1783 |
Sonia | Hazard | 2017-18 | Duke University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America |
Sonia | Di Loreto | 2016-17 | University of Torino | associate professor | Peterson | Margaret Fuller’s Transnational Archive |
Sonia | Hazard | 2013-14 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America |
Shirley | Samuels | 1988-89 | Cornell University | associate professor | NEMLA | Politics and the Family in the Early Republic |
Sherry | Sullivan | 1987-88 | Universit of Alabama, Birmingham | assistant professor | Boni | Noble Savage Iconography in 19th Century Giftbooks |
Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
Shawna | McDermott | 2016-17 | University of Pittsburgh | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Reading Race: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Periodicals |
Sharada | Orihuela | 2015-16 | University of Maryland, College Park | assistant professor | NeMLA | Counterfeit Colony: Bootleg Currency and the Revolutionary Market |
Shane | White | 1990-91 | University of Sydney | lecturer | Peterson | Black Festivals in the United States, 1750-1860 |
Shana | Youngdahl | 2017 | Farmington, Maine | Poet | Hearst | Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry |
Shana | Klein | 2013-14 | Univeristy of New Mexico | PhD candidate | AHPCS | The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900 |
Seth | Cotlar | 1997-98 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803 |
Seth | Rockman | 2006-7 | Brown University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy |
Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
Seth | Cotlar | 2015-16 | Willamette University | professor | Last | When the Olden Days Were New: A Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860 |
Sergei | Zhuk | 1996-97 | Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine | Associate Professor of history | Peterson | 'Brothers in Divorce': Quakers' Attitudes toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
Sean | Hill | 2010 | Bemidji, MN | poet | Hearst | research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s |
Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
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 |
Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
Scott E. | Gac | 2001-02 | University of New York | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Antebellum Reform |
Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
Scott | McLaren | 2012-13 | York University | associate professor | Botein | Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850 |
Scott | Casper | 1990-91 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Cultural and Literary Contexts of Antebellum Campaign Biography and Children's Biography |
Scott | Casper | 1998-99 | University of Nevada, Reno | associate professor | Peterson | First Families: Presidents at Home in the American Imagination, 1789-20 |
Scott | Sandage | 1993-94 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Deadbeats, Drunkards, and Dreamers: The Problem of Failure in Nineteenth Century America |
Saul | Cornell | 1987-88 | University of Pennsylvania | Andrew W Mellon Fellow | Hiatt | The Political Thought and Culture of the Antifederalists |
Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
Sari | Altschuler | 2013-14 | University of South Florida | Assistant Professor of English | Hench | National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860 |
Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
Sarah | Roth | 2000-01 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture |
Sarah | Crabtree | 2013-14 | San Francisco State University | Assistant Professor of History | ASECS | Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840 |
Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |