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
John	McCurdy	2006-7	Eastern Michigan University	assistant professor	ASECS	The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America
Robert	Naeher	2006-7	Emma Willard School	chair	Peterson	Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity
Candice	Harrison	2006-7	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Catherine	Manegold	2005-6	Emory University	professor	AAS-NEH	In an Office Built by Slaves
Jennifer	Hughes	2007-8	Emory University	PhD candidate	Last	"Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900"
Debra	Gwartney	2008	Eugene, OR	non-fitction writer	Baron	research of book on Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first European woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836
Elizabeth	Petrino	2007-8	Fairfield University	associate professor	Reese	"'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian"
Sarah	McCoubrey	2007	Fayetteville, NY	painter	Jay and Deborah Last	research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc.
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
Yvette	Piggush	2009-10	Florida International University	assistant professor	Peterson	We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840
Peter	Reed	2007-8	Florida State University	instructor	NEMLA	"Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852"
Ann	Johnson	2002-3	Fordham University	assistant professor	Botein	Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
Maria	Bollettino	2013-14	Framingham State University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War
Louise	Stevenson	2000-1	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Alexandra	Ganser	2009-10	Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg	assistant professor	Ebeling	(Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900
Lauren	Klein	2013-14	GA Insitute of Technology	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013
Celeste	Roberge	2008	Gainesville, FL	sculptor	Hearst	research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Richard	Boles	2013-14	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850
Laura	Schiavo	1999-00	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
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
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
David	Silverman	2005-6	George Washington University	assistant professor	ASECS	Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
Elizabeth	Hawley	2002-3	Georgia Institute of Technology	PhD candidate	Reese	American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Kathryn	Nuernberger	2010	Glouster, OH	poet	Hearst	research for a collection of poems titled "Curiosities," which merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos
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
Sarah	Purcell	2007-8	Grinnell College	associate professor	Peterson	"The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War"
Joycelyn	Moody	2002-3	Hamilton College	Chair, Women's Studies	Peterson	Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Sean	Kelley	2008-9	Hartwick College	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora"
Elizabeth	Johnston	2005-6	Harvard College	teaching assistant	Peterson	Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Linford	Fisher	2007-8	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775"
Catherine	Corman	2000-1	Harvard University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Daniel	Wewers	2005-6	Harvard University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
John	Huffman	2009-10	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Documents of Identity in the Early Republic
Thomas	Coens	2002-3	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
Sarah	Carter	2007-8	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Last	"Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America"
Robin	Bernstein	2008-9	Harvard University	assistant professor	Last	"Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930."
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
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"
Martha	Carlson-Bradley	2008	Hillsborough, NH	poet	Baron	research for collection of poems, New England Primer

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