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
Michael	D'Alessandro	2012-13	Boston University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
Maura	D'Amore	2007-8	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Drawn to Art	"Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"
Cornelia	Dayton	2004-5	University of Connecticut	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Self and Sanity in Early New England"
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
Marie-Stephanie	Delamaire	2009-10	Columbia University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867
Jeannine	DeLombard	2001-2	University of Puget Sound	assistant professor	NEMLA	At the Bar of Public Opinion: Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism
Jeannine	DeLombard	2007-8	University of Toronto	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War
Christine	DeLucia	2011-12	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78)
John	Demos	2011-12	Yale University	Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Jonathan	Den Hartog	2012-13	Northwestern College	associate professor	AHPCS	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Steven	Deyle	2009-10	University of Houston	associate professor	Tracy	Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan
Lindsay	DiCuirci	2013-14	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Botein	History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855
Vincent	DiGirolamo	2000-1	Colgate University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Crying the News: Child Street Trading in America, 1830s-1890s
Gino	DiIorio	2007	New York, NY	playwright	Baron	research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Steffi	Dippold	2013-14	Stanford University	lecturer	Reese	Plain as in Primitive
Faye	Dudden	2003-4	Colgate University	professor	Tracy	The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870
Heidi	Durrow	2007	Los Angeles, CA	fiction writer	Baron	research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era
Carolyn	Eastman	2008-9	University of Texas	assistant professor	Last	"Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World."
Carolyn	Eastman	2011-12	University of Texas	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print
Sari	Edelstein	2008-9	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900."
Jennifer	Egloff	2009-10	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America
Kimberly	Elkins	2007	New York, NY	fiction writer	Hearst	research for novel set from 1829-1876 about the lives of Laura Bridgman, Julia Ward Howe, and Sara Wright
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
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"
Katharina	Erhard	2004-5	University of Regensburg	Ph.D. candidate	Ebeling	‘An Empire in Many Respects the Most Interesting in the World’: Choreographies of Empire in Early American Plays
Nicole	Eustace	2008-9	New York University	assistant professor	Peterson	"War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."
Michael	Everton	2003-4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Reese	Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture
Meganne	Fabrega	2014	Portsmouth, NH	non-fiction writer	Jay and Deborah Last	research for book title "Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls." Book will blend woman's history, art history, LGTB history, biography, and memoir
Andrew	Fagal	2013-14	Binghamton University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic
Benjamin	Fagan	2008-9	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Tracy	"'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860."
Sara	Fanning	2004-5	University of Texas at Austin	Ph.D. candidate	Tracy	"The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830"
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Molly	Farrell	2012-13	Ohio State University	assistant professor	ASECS	Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Lydia	Fisher	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	lecturer	NEMLA	Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation
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"
Carol	Flueckiger	2009	Lubbock, TX	painter	Jay and Deborah Last	research for body of paintings about feminism and early American reform practices
Erin	Forbes	2008-9	Princeton University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe."
Bridget	Ford	2002-3	University of California, Davis	Ph.D.	Hench	Crossing Over: Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America
Bridget	Ford	2002-3	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow	American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870
Richard	Fox	2000-1	University of Southern California	professor	Mellon Postdoctoral	American Jesus
Joanna	Frang	2007-8	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Last	"Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830"
Caroline	Frank	2013-14	Brown University	visiting scholar	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
Gordon	Fraser	2013-14	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
Mary	Fuhrer	2013-14		independent scholar	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840
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

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