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 |
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Date | Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Menahem | Blondheim | 1987-88 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Boni | The News Frontier |
Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
Susanna | Blumenthal | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | professor of law and associate professor of history | AAS-NEH | Humbug: A Legal History |
Colleen | Boggs | 2015-16 | Dartmouth College | professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature |
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 |
Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
Nicholas | Bonneau | 2015-16 | University of Notre Dame | PhD candidate | Peterson | Unspeakable Loss: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765 |
Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
Robert | Bonner | 1998-99 | University of Southern Maine | assistant professor | Tracy | Newspapers and the Confederate Sphere |
Mark | Boonshoft | 2016-17 | New York Public Library | Post-doctoral Research Fellow | Alstott-Morgan | Monarchical Education and the Making of the American Republic, 1730-1812 |
Jonathon | Booth | 2016-17 | Harvard University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | Criminal Law and Post-Emancipation Society in the Atlantic World |
Sandra | Bornstein | 1996 | Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York, NY | teacher | K-12 | The American Reaction to Darwin's Theory of Evolution |
RJ | Boutelle | 2014-15 | Vanderbil University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism |
Ann | Bowden | 1992-93 | University of Texas, Austin | Ransom scholar | Peterson | A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of SirWalter Scott, 1792-1836 |
Nancy | Bowen | 2012 | Brooklyn, NY | artist, mixed media | Jay and Deborah Last | research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" |
Carrie | Bramen | 2009-10 | SUNY Buffalo | associate professor | NEMLA | American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture |
Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
Ann | Braude | 1985-86 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Women in American Spiritualism |
Juliane | Braun | 2008-9 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana |
Linzy | Brekke | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836 |
Catherine | Brekus | 1991-92 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Female Preaching and Evangelical Religion inAmerica, 1740-1840 |
Deborah | Brevoort | 2012 | North Bergen, NJ | playwright | Baron | research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity |
Priscilla | Brewer | 1984-85 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Technology and Domestic Ideology in theNineteenth-Century |
Amy | Brill | 2005 | Brooklyn, NY | writer | Baron | The Observations, a fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket |
Geoffrey | Brock | 2001-2 | Tallahassee, FL | poet | Hearst | Poems based on American Historical Events |
Janet | Brodie | 1988-89 | California State Polytechnic University | lecturer | Peterson | Women and Freethought in the US , 1820-60 |
John | Brooke | 1982-83 | Amherst College | visiting assistant professor | Haven | Worcester County Politics, 1789-1840 |
Lisa | Brooks | 2001-2 | Cornell University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Recovering the Voices of Our Ancestors |
Candy | Brown | 1998-99 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Salt to the World: A Cultural History of Evangelical Reading, Writing, and Publishing Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America |
Thomas | Brown | 1990-91 | University of Detroit Mercy | assistant professor | Peterson | The Routinization of Charisma in the Early Democratic Part |
Richard | Brown | 1977-78 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | Communications Networks in Pre-IndustrialAmerica |
Lois | Brown | 2000-1 | Mount Holyoke College | assistant professor | NEMLA | Made to Sell, Made to Save': The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature |
Dona | Brown | 1986-87 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | visiting instructor | Hiatt | Tourism in New England |
Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
Richard | Brown | 1992-93 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in Early America,1650-1865 |
Joshua | Brown | 2011-12 | The Graduate Center, City University of New York | executive director | Drawn-to-Art | Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War |
Kathleen | Brown | 1997-98 | University of Pennsylvania | assistant professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Foul Bodies and Infected Worlds: Cleanliness and Cultural Authority in Early Modern England and America, 1500-1900 |
Lois | Brown-Monson | 2000 | Howard University | Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow | NEMLA | Made to Sell, Made to Save’: The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature” |
Katrina | Browne | 2000 | Berkeley, California | documentary filmmaker | Hearst | Trace of the Trade research the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England |
Michael | Broyles | 1989-90 | University of Maryland, Baltimore | professor | RA | From Psalmody to Symphony: How American Musical Attitudes Developed in Antebellum Boston |
Martin | Brückner | 1998-99 | University of Delaware | assistant professor | ASECS | The Culture of Geographic Letters in Early America |
Thora | Brylowe | 2017-18 | University of Colorado, Boulder | assistant professor | Botein | Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper |
Steven | Bullock | 1992-93 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | associate professor | RA | American Freemasonry |
Martin | Burke | 1994-95 | University College, Galway, Ireland | lecturer | Peterson | Signs of the Cross: Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700-00 |
Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
Martha | Burns | 1993-94 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860 |
Andrew | Burstein | 1997-98 | University of Northern Iowa | assistant professor | Peterson | Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution ofAmerica’s Romantic Self-Image |
Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
Claudia | Bushman | 1991-92 | independent scholar | Peterson | America Discovers Columbus |