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
Lyra	Monteiro	2009-10	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860
Priscilla	Brewer	1984-85	Brown University	PhD candidate	Hiatt	Technology and Domestic Ideology in theNineteenth-Century
Lindsay	Regele	2014-15	Brown University	Ph.D. Candidate in History	Peterson	Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy, and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840
Colleen	Tripp	2014-15	Brown University	Ph.D. Candidate in Afro-American Studies	Last	Pacific Sensations: The Beginnings of American Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Culture
Konstantin	Dierks	1998-99	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Letter Writing, Gender, and the Middling Sort in America, 1750-1800
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Rachel	Chernos Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Harry	Williams	1985-86	Brown University	PhD candidate	Haven	Charles Lenox Remond and the Community of Female Abolitionists
Todd	Gernes	1990-91	Brown University	PhD, candidate	Hiatt	Schoolgirls: Young Women's Literary Culture, Political Expression, and the Aesthetics of Affiliation in Nineteenth-Century America
Martha	Burns	1993-94	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860
Caroline	Frank	2013-14	Brown University	visiting scholar	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
Linford	Fisher	2014-15	Brown University	Assistant Professor of History	AAS-NEH	The Land of the Unfree: Africans, Indians, and the Varieties of Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England and the Atlantic World
Howard	Chudacoff	2000-1	Brown University	professor	Peterson	Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
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
Philip	Gould	1999-00	Brown University	assistant professor	NEMLA	A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830
Nancy	Newman	1997-98	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in the United States, 1848-1854
Deborah	Van Broekhoven	1986-87	Brown University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network
Matthew	Pursell	2003-4	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Kenneth	Haltman	1993-94	Bryn Mawr College	postdoctoral fellow	Peterson	The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture
Margaretta	Lovell	2007-08	California at Berkeley	Professor of the History of Art	Mellon Distinguished Scholar	Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and Winslow Homer
Henri Andre Van Huysen	Mayer	1975-76	California at Berkeley	Ph.D. Candidate	Daniels	American Views of Science, 1775-1810
Barbara	Conrad	1994	California High School, San Ramon, California	teacher	K-12	American Music
Christopher	Hunter	2012-13	California Institute of Technology	assistant professor	Reese	A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
Janet	Brodie	1988-89	California State Polytechnic University	lecturer	Peterson	Women and Freethought in the US , 1820-60
Nian-Sheng	Huang	2005-6	California State University Channel Islands	associate professor	Peterson	The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
Megan	Nelson	2008-9	California State University, Fullerton	assistant professor	Last	"Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War."
Brian	Roberts	1998-99	California State University, Sacramento	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Psalms, Reels and Glees: Popular Music and American Identity from the Colonial Era through the Civil War
Christina	Tree	1995	Cambridge, MA	Boston Globe contributor and guidebook author	Wallace	History of New England Tourism
Robert	Strong	2009	Canton, NY	poet	Hearst	research for book-length work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War title "Bright Advent"
Lisa	Tetrault	2007-8	Carnegie Mellon University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895"
Christine	Lum	1995	Caroline High School, Glen Allen, VA	teacher	K-12	Develop a Curriculum Unit on the Life of Catherine Marie Sedgwick for a Secondary American Literature Course
Brenton	Grom	2013-14	Case Western Reserve University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840
Molly	Berger	1993-94	Case Western Reserve University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29
Daniel	Cohen	2007-8	Case Western Reserve University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Holly	Wendt	2014	Casper, WY	novelist	Baron	research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716
Lisa	Gladman	2007-08	Catholic	Associate Professor	Last	Early Photographs of Words Backwards
Lisa	Gitelman	2007-8	Catholic University	associate professor	Last	"Early Photographs of Words Backwards"
Brian	Carroll	2015-16	Central Washington University	assistant professor of history	AAS-ASECS	Burning the Hearts of the Dead: Medicine, Migration, and New England Vampire Belief, 1782-1819
Aimee	Parkison	2013	Charlotte, NC	fiction writer	Hearst	research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans
Joy	Reeves	1996	Chicago public schools, Chicago, IL	teacher	K-12	Incorporation of research into a historical novel on indentured servants to be used as supplemental reading material to enhance the social studies unit on colonial settlement
Ruth	Lopez	2003	Chicago, IL	Writer	Hearst	research in the McLoughlin Brothers archive toward a social history on the artists who helped create children's literature in America
Lavonne	Mueller	2003	Chicago, IL	Playwright	Hearst	A Collection of Short One-Story Plays About Six Notable American Women, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Sacagawea, Lucy Stone, Harriet Tubman, and Martha Washington
Amina	Gautier	2013	Chicago, IL	fiction writer	Hearst	research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island
Sandra	Jackson-Opoku	2008	Chicago, IL	novelist	Hearst	God's Gift to the Natives, novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora
Cassandra	Smith	1999	Chicago, IL	doll artist	Artist	Slaves, Free Blacks, Runaways: Dolls of the Antebellum United States
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"
Louis	Masur	1998-99	City College of New York	professor	Peterson	The American Republic in 1831

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