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
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Meredith	Bak	2010-11	University of California, Santa Barbara	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Christopher	Oliver	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
Christopher	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
Jessica	Collier	2010-11	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
Daniel	Lewis	2010-11	Northern Virginia Community College	assistant professor	Last	The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
Sean	Harvey	2010-11	Northern Illinois University	visiting assistant professor	AAS-NEH	American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
John	Coward	2010-11	University of Tulsa	associate professor	AHPCS	Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Gudrun	Löhrer	2010-11	John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin	visiting professor	Ebeling	A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Kerin	Holt	2010-11	Utah State University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Lisa	Wilson	2010-11	Connecticut College	professor	AAS-NEH	Cinderella's Family
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Sarah	Arndt	2010-11	Trinity College, University of Dublin	PhD candidate	Reese	The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825
Suzanne	Rivecca	2010	San Francisco, CA	fiction writer	Baron	research for a novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff
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
Wendy	Call	2010	Seattle, WA	writer, non-fiction	Baron	research for series of literary essays about the grieving process
Sean	Hill	2010	Bemidji, MN	poet	Hearst	research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s
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"
Arden	Stern	2009-10	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Whitney	Martinko	2009-10	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860
Carrie	Hyde	2009-10	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868
Albrecht	Koschnik	2009-10	Library Company of Philadelphia	fellow	ASECS	American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
Tanya	Sheehan	2009-10	Rutgers University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Jennifer	Wilson	2009-10	The Graduate Center, The City University of New York	PhD candidate	Peterson	Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de
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
Jeffrey	Malanson	2009-10	Boston College	PhD candidate	Peterson	Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852
Lynn	Casmier-Paz	2009-10	University of Central Florida	associate professor	Botein	Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education
Mary Beth	Sievens	2009-10	SUNY Fredonia	associate professor	AAS-NEH	The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
Spencer	Keralis	2009-10	New York University	PhD candidate	Legacy	Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America
Ursula	Crosslin	2009-10	Ohio State University	PhD candidate	Reese	The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860
Jennifer	Pierce	2009-10	The University of Iowa	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries
Gustavo	Paz	2009-10	University of Buenos Aires	associate professor	Peterson	News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825)
Mark	Mattes	2009-10	University of Iowa	PhD candidate	Botein	Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
Michael	Winship	2009-10	University of Texas	professor	AAS-NEH	Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950
April	Haynes	2009-10	University of California, Santa Barbara	Ph.D. in history	Hench	Riotous Flesh: Confronting Gender and Sexuality through Grahamite Health Reform, 1830-1860
Carrie	Bramen	2009-10	SUNY Buffalo	associate professor	NEMLA	American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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