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
Erin	Forbes	2008-9	Princeton University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe."
Ethan	Robey	2002-3	State University of New York at Binghamton	independent scholar	AHPCS	The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Faith	Barrett	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Faith	Barrett	2013-14	Lawrence University	associate professor	Botein	Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Faye	Dudden	2003-4	Colgate University	professor	Tracy	The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Gabriel	Loiacono	2006-7	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888
Gesa	Mackenthun	2006-7	University of Rostock	professor	Peterson	The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Gina Marie	Caison	2011-12	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper
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
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
Glenn	Hendler	2002-3	University of Notre Dame	associate professor	NEMLA	Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
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
Graham	Hodges	1999-00	Colgate University	professor	Peterson	David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom
Greta	LaFleur	2013-14	University of Hawai'I at Manoa	assistant professor	Peterson	American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
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
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)
Hannah	Carlson	2006-7	Boston University	PhD candidate	Botein	In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
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
Helen	Horowitz	1999-00	Smith College	professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Research fellow	Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80
Helena	Ifeka	1999-00	Columbia University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Parkman Relations
Helene	Quanquin	2009-10	University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle	associate professor	Peterson	'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890
Hester	Blum	2004-5	Penn State University	assistant professor	Reese	"The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination"
Hilary	Wyss	2006-7	Auburn University	associate professor	ASECS	Native Literacy and Education in Early America
Holly	Heinzer	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850
Holly	Wendt	2014	Casper, WY	novelist	Baron	research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716
Honor	Sachs	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry
Honoree	Jeffers	2009	Norman, OK	poet	Baron	research for book of poems titled "The Art of Mastering" whose centerpiece is a series about Phillis Wheatley, which imagines her interior life
Howard	Chudacoff	2000-1	Brown University	professor	Peterson	Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880
Hugh	McIntosh	2010-11	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
Ilyon	Woo	2004-5	Columbia University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Mother against Mother"
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Jack	Larkin	2011-12	Clark University	affiliate professor	AAS-NEH	David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
Jacob	Crane	2013-14	Tufts University	PhD candidate	Schiller	Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
James	Kabala	2007-8	Brown University	PhD candidate	Legacy	"A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844"
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
James	Secord	2004-5	University of Cambridge	professor	Botein	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
James	Lundberg	2006-7	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872
James	Sidbury	2002-3	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral	Conceptions of Africa in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Jane	Merritt	2008-9	Old Dominion University	associate professor	Peterson	"The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."
Janet	Pritchard	2008	Mansfield Center, CT	photographier	Jay and Deborah Last	Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Jared	Gardner	2000-1	Ohio State University	assistant professor	ASECS	The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature
Jason	Opal	2002-3	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Legacy	Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830

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