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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
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
Stephen	O'Connor	1997	New York, NY	non-fiction writer	Artist	A history of the Orphan Trains
Stephen	Rice	1995-96	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Incorporating the Machine: Labor, Fatigue, and the Problem of Self-Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Industrial America
Stephen	Mihm	2001-2	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America
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
Stephanie	Carpenter	2015	Hancock, MI	fiction writer	Hearst	Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas
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	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
Sonia	Hazard	2017-18	Duke University	Ph.D. candidate	Last	The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print 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	Klein	2013-14	Univeristy of New Mexico	PhD candidate	AHPCS	The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900
Shana	Youngdahl	2017	Farmington, Maine	Poet	Hearst	Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry
Seth	Perry	2009-10	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Reese	The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850
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	Cotlar	2015-16	Willamette University	professor	Last	When the Olden Days Were New: A Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860
Seth	Cotlar	1997-98	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803
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	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"
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
Scott E.	Gac	2001-02	University of New York	Ph.D. Candidate	Peterson	The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Antebellum Reform
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
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
Saul	Cornell	1987-88	University of Pennsylvania	Andrew W Mellon Fellow	Hiatt	The Political Thought and Culture of the Antifederalists
Sari	Edelstein	2008-9	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900."
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
Sargent	Bush Jr.	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	professor	Peterson	The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice
Sarah	Carter	2007-8	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Last	"Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America"
Sarah	Gerk	2013-14	Oberlin College	visiting teacher	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music
Sarah	Messer	1999	Madison, WI	creative non-fiction writer/poet	Wallace	Red House: A non-fiction memoir of a place about one of the oldest continuously lived-in houses in New England

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