NavigationDirectory 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 |
Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katy | Chiles | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee | Assistant Professor of English | Botein | Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature |
| 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 |
| Hilary | Miller | 2014-15 | Penn State University, Harrisburg | Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies | Last | The National Road and the Expansion of American Culture, 1811-1850 |
| Elizabeth | Athens | 2014-15 | Yale University | Ph.D. Candidate in Art History | Last | Figuring a World: William Bartram's Natural History |
| Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
| Adam | Jortner | 2014-15 | Auburn University | Assistant Professor of History | ASECS | Witchcraft and the Rise of American Religious Freedom, 1626-1789 |
| Katherine | Smoak | 2014-15 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Last | Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and Its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic |
| James | Dun | 2014-15 | Princeton University | Assistant Professor of History | Tracy | Dangerous Neighbors |
| Melanie | Kiechle | 2014-15 | Virginia Tech University | Assistant Professor of History | AAS-NEH | Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century America |
| Katherine | Miller | 2014-15 | University of Virginia | Ph.D. Candidate in Art and Architectural History | Drawn to Art | The Office of the Supervising Architect's Experiments with Architectural Representation: Prints & Photographs |
| Lauren | Barbeau | 2014-15 | Washington University in St Louis | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | 'Worth of a Happier Domestic Fate': Domesticity as the Property of White Women |
| Jonathan | Yeager | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Assistant Professor of History | Reese | Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture |
| Heather | Kopelson | 2014-15 | University of Alabama | Assistant Professor of History | Last | Idolatrous Processions: The Production of Peoples and Places in the Atlantic World |
| Amy | Torbert | 2014-15 | University of Delaware | Ph.D. in Art History | AHPCS | Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840 |
| Carol | Faulkner | 2014-15 | Syracuse University | Associate Professor of History | Peterson | The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Sean | Moore | 2014-15 | University of New Hampshire | Associate Professor of History | AAS-NEH | Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade |
| Max | Mishler | 2014-15 | New York University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Boundaries of Freedom: Abolition, Punishment, and the Atlantic Origins of Mass Incarceration |
| Benjamind | Bascom | 2014-15 | University of IL, Urbana-Champaign | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early United States |
| Richard | Bushman | 2014-15 | Columbia University | Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Farmers in the Production of the Nation |
| Ben | Lafferty | 2014-15 | Queen Mary, University of London | Ph.D. in History | Fulbright | A Marketplace of Ideas: Printed Culture and Communications in Federalist Era New England |
| 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 |
| Christopher | Florio | 2014-15 | Princeton University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1877 |
| Will | Slauter | 2014-15 | University of Paris 8 (Saint Denis) | Lecturer in English and American Studies | AAS-NEH | Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective |
| Justine | Murison | 2014-15 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Associate Professor of English | NEMLA | American Infidelity: Secularity, Slavery, and the Making of U.S. Fiction |
| Julia | Bernier | 2014-15 | University of MA, Amherst | Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies | Legacy | A Papered Freedom |
| Claudia | Bushman | 2014-15 | Columbia University | Professor of American Studies emerita | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Boston in 1870 |
| Drew | Lopenzina | 2014-15 | Old Dominion University | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Cultural Biography of William Apess |
| Kathleen | Walkup | 2014-15 | Mills College | Professor of Book Arts | Botein | Printing at the Margins |
| Mary | Fuhrer | 2014-15 | independent scholar | Last | Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England, 1820-1840 | |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2014-15 | Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 | Associate Professor | Jenny d'Hericourt | From The Liberator to The Nation: The Periodical Legacies of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips |
| Daniel | Radus | 2014-15 | Cornell University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | The Eulogy on Tour: Kinship and the Transnational History of Native New England |
| RJ | Boutelle | 2014-15 | Vanderbil University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism |
| Trenton | Jones | 2014-15 | The Johns Hopkins University | PhD in History | Hench | Deprived of their Liberty': Enemy Prisoners and the Culture of War in Revolutionary America |
| Carolyn | Kras | 2014 | Los Angeles, CA | writer, screen (TV, theater, stage) | Hearst | research for TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire |
| Margaret | Rozga | 2014 | Milwaukee, WI | poet | Baron | research for collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont |
| Sarah | Stern | 2014 | Red Hook, NY | playwright | Hearst | research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s |
| 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 |
| Holly | Wendt | 2014 | Casper, WY | novelist | Baron | research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716 |
| Megan | Walsh | 2013-14 | St. Bonaventure University | assistant professor | NEMLA | Broadview Editon of Frank J. Webb's 'The Garies and Their Friends' |
| Steffi | Dippold | 2013-14 | Stanford University | lecturer | Reese | Plain as in Primitive |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2013-14 | University of South Florida | Assistant Professor of English | Hench | National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860 |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2013-14 | Purdue University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Image in the Text |
| Nicholas | Guyatt | 2013-14 | University of York, UK | assistant professor | Peterson | The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of 'separate but equal' |
| Zara | Anishanslin | 2013-14 | College of Staten Island | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution |
| Mary | Kelley | 2013-14 | University of Michigan | Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | 'What Are You Reading, What Are You Saying?’ American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860 |
| Derek | Pacheco | 2013-14 | Purdue University | assistant professor | Packer | Transcendentalism and Children's Literature |
| Patricia | Pender | 2013-14 | University of Newcastle | associate professor | Reese | Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867 |
| Heike | Jablonski | 2013-14 | Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg | Ph.D. Candidate | Ebeling | John Foxe in America |
| Brett | Mizelle | 2013-14 | CSU, Long Beach | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Killing Animals in American History |
| Philippa | Koch | 2013-14 | University of Chicago Divinity School | PhD candidate | Peterson | Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America |
