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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| 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" |
| 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 |
