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
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Kathryn	Koo	2005-6	Saint Mary's College of California	assistant professor	Peterson	In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery
Patricia	Johnston	2007-8	Salem State College	professor	Last	"Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants"
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Lauren	Yee	2009	San Francisco, CA	playwright	Baron	research for interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America"
Suzanne	Rivecca	2010	San Francisco, CA	fiction writer	Baron	research for a novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff
Michelle	Burnham	2011-12	Santa Clara University	professor	ASECS	The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific
Wendy	Call	2010	Seattle, WA	writer, non-fiction	Baron	research for series of literary essays about the grieving process
David	Anthony	2005-6	SIU Carbondale	assistant professor	NEMLA	Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism
David	Anthony	2012-13	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	AAS-NEH	The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
Helen	Horowitz	1999-00	Smith College	professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Research fellow	Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
Cam	Terwilliger	2011	Somerville, MA	fiction writer	Baron	research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War
David	Anthony	2000-1	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale	assistant professor	NEMLA	White-Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America
Molly	Hardy	2012-13	Southwestern University	post-doc fellow	NEMLA	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Megan	Walsh	2013-14	St. Bonaventure University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Broadview Editon of Frank J. Webb's 'The Garies and Their Friends'
Lisa	Norwood	2001-2	Stanford University	graduate student	Morgan	Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860
Steffi	Dippold	2013-14	Stanford University	lecturer	Reese	Plain as in Primitive
Martha	Rojas	2003-4	Stanford University	PhD candidate	NEMLA	Diplomatic Letters
Sarah	Perkins	2013-14	Stanford University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Dixie Bound: The Story of an American Literary Movement, 1860-1930
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
April	Masten	2008-9	State University of New York, Stony Brook	associate professor	Peterson	"The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture."
Carrie	Bramen	2009-10	SUNY Buffalo	associate professor	NEMLA	American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Mary Beth	Sievens	2009-10	SUNY Fredonia	associate professor	AAS-NEH	The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
Martha	Rojas	2004-5	Sweet Briar College		AAS-NEH	"Diplomatic Letters"
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Patricia	Roylance	2008-9	Syracuse University	assistant professor	Last	"Eclipse of Empire."
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Robert	Wright	1999-00	Temple University	visiting assistant professor	Peterson	Early American Finance: Revolution, Integration, Expansion
Valerie	McKito	2007-8	Texas Tech University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution"
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Jennifer	Wilson	2009-10	The Graduate Center, The City University of New York	PhD candidate	Peterson	Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de
Jennifer	Pierce	2009-10	The University of Iowa	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries
Kelly	Ross	2009-10	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story
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."
Jill	Anderson	2003-4	Thomas Jefferson Foundation	assistant editor	Peterson	"Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Sarah	Arndt	2010-11	Trinity College, University of Dublin	PhD candidate	Reese	The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825
Daniel	Mandell	2012-13	Truman State University	professor	AAS-NEH	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Daniel	Mandell	2002-3	Truman State University	assistant professor	Tracy	Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880
Jacob	Crane	2013-14	Tufts University	PhD candidate	Schiller	Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840
Radiclani	Clytus	2009-10	Tufts University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Adam	Gordon	2011-12	UCLA	Ph.D. in English	Hench	Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America
Shana	Klein	2013-14	Univeristy of New Mexico	PhD candidate	AHPCS	The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900
Claire	Parfait	2012-13	Universite de Paris 13	professor	Reese	African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography
Julien	Mauduit	2011-12	Universite du Quebec a Montreal	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials
Jonathan	Nash	2011-12	University at Albany, SUNY	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850
Eldrid	Herrington	2003-4	University College, Dublin	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation
Allison	Stagg	2009-10	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
Joshua	Rothman	2005-6	University of Alabama	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America

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