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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph | Stubenrauch | 2008-9 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Last | "Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution." |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Wendy | Katz | 2008-9 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Last | "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862." |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Lara | Cohen | 2008-9 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Botein | "Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature." |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | TRUE | "Letter and Spirit" |
| Allison | Malcom | 2008-9 | University of Illinois-Chicago | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870." |
| Kelly | Sisson | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936." |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Betsy | Klimasmith | 2008-9 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Botein | "Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction." |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | TRUE | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2008-9 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | NEMLA | "The Freedoms of a Stranger, 1830-1860." |
| Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| Jeffrey | Kaja | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "From Rivers to Roads: Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800." |
| Laura | Smith | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'." |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Catherine | Parisian | 2008-9 | independent scholar | Reese | "A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney." | |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Courtney | Weikle-Mills | 2008-9 | University of Pittsburgh | assistant professor | Reese | "Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852." |
| Patricia | Roylance | 2008-9 | Syracuse University | assistant professor | Last | "Eclipse of Empire." |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2008-9 | University of Texas | assistant professor | Last | "Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | TRUE | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Jennifer | Van Horn | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | AHPCS | "The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)." |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| 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" |
| Kathryn | Morse | 2007-8 | Middlebury College | associate professor | AHPCS | "The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images" |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | "The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War" |
| Joanna | Frang | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Last | "Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830" |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| Peter | Messer | 2007-8 | Mississippi State University | assistant professor | ASECS | "Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America" |
| Richard | Bell | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | TRUE | "Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States" |
| Mary | Zundo | 2007-8 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Last | "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier" |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Angela | George | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Last | "The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893" |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | "Dirty Politics in Early America" |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | TRUE | "Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
