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 |
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Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Mary | Kelley | 1990-91 | Dartmouth College | professor | Peterson | Achieving Authority: Women in Public in Early America |
James Rixey | Ruffin | 1998-99 | Delaware | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Religion, 1783-1800 |
Mitchell | Snay | 2000-01 | Denison University | associate professor | Tracy | A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction |
Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
Sergei | Zhuk | 1996-97 | Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine | Associate Professor of history | Peterson | 'Brothers in Divorce': Quakers' Attitudes toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
Maura | Lyons | 2014-15 | Drake University | Associate Professor of Art History | Last | Popular Depictions of the 'Natural' Body of the Union Soldier |
Reeve | Huston | 2017-18 | Duke University | associate professor of history | AAS-NEH | Reforging American Democracy |
John | Evelev | 1996-97 | Duke University | recent PhD | Botein | Tolerable Entertainment:' Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York |
Sonia | Hazard | 2017-18 | Duke University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America |
Sonia | Hazard | 2013-14 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America |
Amy | Thomas | 1990-91 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Botein | Reading in the Antebellum South |
Fiona | Robertson | 1994-95 | Durham University | lecturer | RA | Representing America, 1776-1830 |
Nym | Cooke | 1982-83 | Eagle Hill School | Hiatt | Lives of the Psalmodists | |
Nym | Cooke | 1992-93 | Eagle Hill School | AAS-NEH | Sacred Music in New England, 1720-1780: From Ritual Towards Art | |
Paula | Kopacz | 1988-89 | Eastern Kentucky University | associate professor | RA | Women's Daily Life in Seventeenth-Century New England |
John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
Lucia | Bergamasco-Lenarda | 1981-82 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | PhD candidate | Daniels | Women and Children in Colonial New England |
Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
Peter | Martin | 1995-96 | Emory College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Forgotten Immigrant Church: The French-Canadian Religious Identity in New England |
Mark | Schantz | 1987-88 | Emory College | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Piety in Providence: The class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Providence, Rhode Island, 1790-1860 |
Brian | Luskey | 2003-4 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America |
Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
Michael | Bellesiles | 1992-93 | Emory University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840 |
Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
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" |
Shana | Youngdahl | 2017 | Farmington, Maine | Poet | Hearst | Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry |
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 |
Philip | Morgan | 1996-97 | Florida State University | professor | AAS-NEH | The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century |
Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
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 |
Christy | Pottroff | 2016-17 | Fordham University | Ph.D. candidate | Last | The Mail Gaze: Early American Literature, Letters, and the Post Office |
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 |
Erika | Schneider | 2017-18 | Framingham State University | associate professor | Last | Lost in Translation, Found in Print: American Gift Books |
Edward | Pearson | 1997-98 | Franklin & Marshall College | assistant professor | RA | Plays, Playhouses, and Players in Early America, 1720-1825 |
Ren‚e | Sentilles | 1998-99 | Franklin & Marshall College | visiting assistant professor | Mellon Post-Dissertation | Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey |
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 |