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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
Mark	Schantz	1987-88	Emory College	PhD candidate	Hiatt	Piety in Providence: The class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Providence, Rhode Island, 1790-1860
Jennifer	Hughes	2007-8	Emory University	PhD candidate	Last	"Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900"
Candice	Harrison	2006-7	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859
Michael	Bellesiles	1992-93	Emory University	assistant professor	Peterson	The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Catherine	Manegold	2005-6	Emory University	professor	AAS-NEH	In an Office Built by Slaves
Robinson	Murray	1979-80	Essex Institute	associate librarian	Daniels	Bibliography of New Hampshire Imprints
Debra	Gwartney	2008	Eugene, OR	non-fitction writer	Baron	research of book on Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first European woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836
Robert	Lawson-Peebles	1990-91	Exeter College	lecturer	ASECS	Transatlantic Cultural Relations, 1745-80
John	Harley	1976-77	Exeter College	reader	Daniels	Maps in Eighteenth-Century North American Libraries
Anne	Anderson	2014-15	Exeter University	Ph.D. Candidate in English	Last	The Morse Collection at the American Antiquarian Society
Elizabeth	Petrino	2007-8	Fairfield University	associate professor	Reese	"'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian"
Sarah	McCoubrey	2007	Fayetteville, NY	painter	Jay and Deborah Last	research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc.
Yvette	Piggush	2011-12	Florida International University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850
Daniel	Cohen	1992-93	Florida International University	assistant professor	Botein	Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860
Yvette	Piggush	2009-10	Florida International University	assistant professor	Peterson	We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840
Peter	Reed	2007-8	Florida State University	instructor	NEMLA	"Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852"
Philip	Morgan	1996-97	Florida State University	professor	AAS-NEH	The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century
W	Lhamon	1998-99	Florida State University	George M. Harper professor	Peterson	Jump Jim Crow: Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
Ann	Johnson	2002-3	Fordham University	assistant professor	Botein	Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
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
Ren‚e	Sentilles	1998-99	Franklin & Marshall College	visiting assistant professor	Mellon Post-Dissertation	Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey
Edward	Pearson	1997-98	Franklin & Marshall College	assistant professor	RA	Plays, Playhouses, and Players in Early America, 1720-1825
Louise	Stevenson	2000-01	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Alexandra	Ganser	2009-10	Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg	assistant professor	Ebeling	(Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900
Mary Anne	Lutz	1996-97	Frostburg State University	associate professor	RA	The Politics of the American Picturesque: Perceptions of Land and Native Americans
Lauren	Klein	2013-14	GA Insitute of Technology	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013
Celeste	Roberge	2008	Gainesville, FL	sculptor	Hearst	research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture
Alan	Ruffman	1997-98	Geomarine Associates Ltd	president	Peterson	Historic Meterology and the 1775 Hurricane
Rosemarie	Zagarri	1996-97	George Mason	Associate Professor of history	AAS-ASECS	Gender and the First Party System
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Joseph	Wood	1988-89	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The Literary Origins of New England Village Symobolism
David	Silverman	2005-6	George Washington University	assistant professor	ASECS	Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
Laura	Schiavo	1999-00	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Natalie	Deibel	2011-12	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Elizabeth	Hawley	2002-3	Georgia Institute of Technology	PhD candidate	Reese	American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890
Gregory	Nobles	1991-92	Georgia Institute of Technology	associate professor	Boni	Straight Lines and Stability: The Imposition of Order on the Early American Frontier
Gregory	Nobles	2016-17	Georgia Institute of Technology	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Betsey Stockton’s Mission: From Slavery to Freedom, From Princeton to the Pacific
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Yuri	Rasovsky	1995	Glendale, CA	radio documentary producer	Artist	Radio Documentary on the History of Thanksgiving
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
Sara	Smith	2015	Greenfield, MA	choreographer	Baron	research for a movement-theatre piece about the life and work of a fictional 19th century geologist and prophet
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Randolph	Roth	1981-82	Grinnell College	instructor	Daniels	Religion and Reform in Antebellum Vermont
Sarah	Purcell	2007-8	Grinnell College	associate professor	Peterson	The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War
Helena	Markson	1991-92	Haifa, Israel	senior lecturer	RA	Early American Lithography and Allied Printing
Joycelyn	Moody	2002-3	Hamilton College	Chair, Women's Studies	Peterson	Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy
Stephanie	Carpenter	2015	Hancock, MI	fiction writer	Hearst	Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas

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