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
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Renée	Sentilles	1998-9	College of William and Mary		Hench	Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Rebecca	McNulty	2003-4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
Randi	Lewis	2012-13	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Radiclani	Clytus	2009-10	Tufts University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Polly	Ha	2006-7	University of Cambridge	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination
Phyllis	Cole	2004-5	Penn State Delaware County	professor	Peterson	"Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America"
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Philippa	Koch	2013-14	University of Chicago Divinity School	PhD candidate	Peterson	Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America
Philip	Gould	1999-00	Brown University	assistant professor	NEMLA	A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
Peter	Leavenworth	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
Peter	Baldwin	2004-5	University of Connecticut	assistant professor	Tracy	"American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930"
Peter	Messer	2007-8	Mississippi State University	assistant professor	ASECS	Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America
Peter	Reed	2007-8	Florida State University	instructor	NEMLA	"Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852"
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Peter	Leavenworth	2004-5	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic"
Paul	Jones	2007-8	Ohio University	assistant professor	Peterson	The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement
Patrick	Luck	2012-13	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
Patricia	Roylance	2008-9	Syracuse University	assistant professor	Last	"Eclipse of Empire."
Patricia	Johnston	2007-8	Salem State College	professor	Last	"Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants"
Patricia	Crain	2005-6	University of Minnesota	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Patricia	Pender	2013-14	University of Newcastle	associate professor	Reese	Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867
Nikos	Pappas	2007-8	University of Kentucky	PhD candidate	Reese	"Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870)
Nicole	Waller	2007-8	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz)	junior professor	Ebeling	American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World
Nicole	Eustace	2008-9	New York University	assistant professor	Peterson	"War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."
Nicolas	Barreyre	2011-12	University Paris Ouest Nanterre	assistant professor	Tracy	Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Nick	Yablon	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
Nicholas	Guyatt	2013-14	University of York, UK	assistant professor	Peterson	The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of 'separate but equal'
Nicholas	Wrightson	2006-7	Jesus College, Oxford University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	"Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65"
Nian-Sheng	Huang	2005-6	California State University Channel Islands	associate professor	Peterson	The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
Nenette	Luarca-Shoaf	2009-10	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination
Neil	Kamil	2012-13	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Nazera	Wright	2013-14	University of Kentucky	Assistant Professor of English	Ford	Girlhood in African American Literature, 1827-1949
Natasha	Lightfoot	2006-7	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858
Natasha	Hurley	2008-9	University of Alberta	postdoctoral fellow	ASECS	"The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe."
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
Nancy	Siegel	2008-9	Juniata College	assistant professor	Last	"Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints."
Nancy	Shoemaker	2006-7	University of Connecticut	professor	AAS-NEH	The Whaling History of New England Indians
Nancy	Isenberg	2007-8	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	Dirty Politics in Early America
Nancy	Bowen	2012	Brooklyn, NY	artist, mixed media	Jay and Deborah Last	research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs"
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Monique	Patenaude	2008-9	University of Rochester	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870."

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