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 |
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Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
Amy | Hughes | 2015-16 | Brooklyn College (CUNY) | associate professor | AAS-NEH | An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America |
Andrea | Woods | 1996 | Brooklyn, NY | independent dancer, choreographer, teacher | Artist | Ballad of the Black Cowboy |
Nancy | Bowen | 2012 | Brooklyn, NY | artist, mixed media | Jay and Deborah Last | research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" |
Amy | Brill | 2005 | Brooklyn, NY | writer | Baron | The Observations, a fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket |
John | Shufelt | 2017-18 | Brown University | visiting associate professor | Peterson | Newspaper Accounts of the Coolie Slave Trade |
Howard | Chudacoff | 1974-75 | Brown University | assistant professor | Rockefeller | The Effect of Industrialization and Urbanization upon Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Worcester |
Rachel | Knecht | 2016-17 | Brown University | Ph.D. candidate | Lapides | Inventing the Mathematical Economy in Nineteenth-Century America |
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 |
Priscilla | Brewer | 1984-85 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Technology and Domestic Ideology in theNineteenth-Century |
Deborah | Van Broekhoven | 1986-87 | Brown University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network |
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 |
Howard | Chudacoff | 2000-1 | Brown University | professor | Peterson | Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880 |
Konstantin | Dierks | 1998-99 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Letter Writing, Gender, and the Middling Sort in America, 1750-1800 |
Rachel | Lin | 2002-3 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807 |
Philip | Gould | 1999-00 | Brown University | assistant professor | NEMLA | A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830 |
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 |
Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
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 |
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 |
Michael | Vorenberg | 2002-3 | Brown University | assistant professor | Peterson | Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War |
James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
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 |
Kathrinne | Duffy | 2017-18 | Brown University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture 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 |
Mazie | Harris | 2012-13 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884 |
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 |
Caroline | Frank | 2013-14 | Brown University | visiting scholar | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America |
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 |
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 |
Irene | Cheng | 2017-18 | California College of Arts | assistant professor | Last | The Shape of Utopia |
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 |
Kate | Mulry | 2016-17 | California State University, Bakersfield | assistant professor of history | ASECS | Unwholesome Tinctures: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic |
JoAnn | Conrad | 2017-18 | California State University, East Bay | adjunct professor | Lapides | Women's Work: Women Illustrators in Commercial Media during the Golden Age of Illustration |
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 |
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 |
Brenton | Grom | 2013-14 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840 |
Renee | Sentilles | 2003-4 | Case Western Reserve University | assistant professor | Peterson | Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls |
Molly | Berger | 1993-94 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29 |