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 |
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Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Joyce | Appleby | 1994-95 | UCLA | professor | ASECS | The First Generation of Americans |
Wayne | Franklin | 1994-95 | Northeastern University | Davis distinguished professor | AAS-NEH | A Biography of James Fenimore Cooper |
Elise | Lemire | 1994-95 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Discourses of Miscegenation in United States, 1800-1865 |
Katherine | Grant | 1994-95 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Lyceum Movement in America, 1826-1890 |
Laura | Kennelly | 1994-95 | Baldwin-Wallace College | assistant editor | Peterson | Samuel West: Private Life in Revolutionary Times, 1739-1808 |
W | Barber | 1995 | Kingsley Elementary School, Evanston, Illinois | teacher | K-12 | The Ethnic 'Other' in Children's Literature |
Barbara | Duffy | 1995 | School of the Osage R-11 | teacher | K-12 | Teaching History and Methods of Research through the Broadside Ballad |
Nancy Vieira | Couto | 1995 | Poet and freelance editor/consultant, Ithaca, NY | Artist | Book of Poems and Prose Pieces on America Vesspucci | |
Marshall | Levy | 1995 | Winn Brook School, Belmont, MA | teacher | K-12 | The Evolution of the Chocolate Industry in the New England Area and its Impact on a Developing Society |
Laurie | Block | 1995 | filmmaker | Artist | Television Documentary on the US -Mexican War | |
Christine | Lum | 1995 | Caroline High School, Glen Allen, VA | teacher | K-12 | Develop a Curriculum Unit on the Life of Catherine Marie Sedgwick for a Secondary American Literature Course |
Gary | Hagenbuch | 1995 | West Tatnuck School, Worcester, MA | teacher | K-12 | To Develop a Curriculum Unit Based upon Worcester,1825-1850 |
Christina | Tree | 1995 | Cambridge, MA | Boston Globe contributor and guidebook author | Wallace | History of New England Tourism |
Jeffrey | Hatcher | 1995 | Minneapolis, MN | playwright | Artist | Sockdology, a Play about the Actors in the Play Our American Cousin |
Yuri | Rasovsky | 1995 | Glendale, CA | radio documentary producer | Artist | Radio Documentary on the History of Thanksgiving |
Robert | Schoone-Jongen | 1995 | SW Minnesota Christian High School | teacher | K-12 | Conduct a Survey of how Popular Hymns and Other Religious Songs Reflected Views on Political/Social Issues, 1775-1800 |
Ernest | Freeberg | 1995-96 | Colby-Sawyer College | assistant professor | ASECS | The Meaning of Blindnessin Early America |
Stephen | Rice | 1995-96 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Incorporating the Machine: Labor, Fatigue, and the Problem of Self-Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Industrial America |
Barry | O'Connell | 1995-96 | Amherst College | professor | AAS-NEH | Surviving Identites: Native American Writers and Their People's Survival, 1780-1840 |
Jean | Silver-Isenstadt | 1995-96 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pure Pleasure: The Shared Life and Work of Mary S Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols in American Health Reform |
Catherine | Allgor | 1995-96 | Yale | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832 |
Alice | Fahs | 1995-96 | UC Irvine | assistant professor | Botein | Publishing the Civil War: Northern Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of War. |
Meredith | McGill | 1995-96 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting Rewriting Romanticism Fashioning the Marketplace |
Peter | Martin | 1995-96 | Emory College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Forgotten Immigrant Church: The French-Canadian Religious Identity in New England |
Heidi | Schultz | 1995-96 | UNC, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Peterson | Women Writing in the American South: Writing at Female Acadmies and Writing Without Teachers, 1800-1860 |
Jeffrey | Groves | 1995-96 | Harvey Mudd College Ref: Professor Michael Winship, UT Austin | associate professor | Peterson | Ticknor and Fields: Literary Promotion and American Canon Formation, 1840-1865 |
Joseph | Rainer | 1995-96 | University of Mississippi | visiting instructor | Peterson | Peddler Folklore in Southern Almanacs |
Karen | Halttunen | 1995-96 | UC Davis | professor | Peterson | Jacob's Pillows: Natural History and Memory in the Making of New England |
Neal | Salisbury | 1995-96 | Smith College | professor | AAS-NEH | From Frontier to Society: Natives, Settlers and the Transformation of Southern New Engand |
Janice | Simon | 1995-96 | University of Georgia | assistant professor | RA | The Forest Interior in American Painting, 1840-1900 |
Brett | Charbeneau | 1995-96 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | journeyman printer | ASECS | Williamsburg Imprints Program |
Gail | Smith | 1995-96 | Marquette University | assistant professor | RA | Reading the Word: Harriet Beecher Stow and Nineteenth Century American Hermeneutics |
Deborah | Madsen | 1995-96 | University of Leicester | director | RA | Colonial Legacies: A History of the Pynchon and Hawthorne Families |
Karen | Weyler | 1995-96 | UNC, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Botein | Issues of Privacy and Publicity in the Early American Novel |
Klaus | Schmidt | 1995-96 | University of Mainz, Germany | assistant professor | RA | Between Periphery and Center:Studies in the Literatures and Cultures of British America, 1702-1776 |
Albert | von Frank | 1995-96 | Washington State University, Pullman | professor | Peterson | Anthony Burns, Fugitive Slave |
Robert | Shalhope | 1995-96 | Oklahoma State University | George Lynn Cross professor | AAS-NEH | A Yeoman's Life: Hiram Harwood, 1806-1837 |
Kent | Walgren | 1995-96 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Assistant Attorney General | Peterson | Bibliography of American Masonic and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850 |
Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
Aubrey | Wertheim | 1996 | Oberlin, Ohio | playwright | Artist | A Full Length One Woman Show about Fanny Fern, the First Female American Columnist |
John | Deaderick | 1996 | Pliocene Ridge High School, North San Juan, California | teacher | K-12 | Images and Ideas of the American Frontier as Expressed on the Professional Stage, 1825-1875 |
Joy | Reeves | 1996 | Chicago public schools, Chicago, IL | teacher | K-12 | Incorporation of research into a historical novel on indentured servants to be used as supplemental reading material to enhance the social studies unit on colonial settlement |
Jocelyn | Lee | 1996 | Sequoia Union High School, Redwood City, CA | teacher | K-12 | Seneca Falls to Suffrage: A Study of the Early Women's Movement, 1840-20 |
John | Lee | 1996 | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | resident playwright | Artist | Orphan Trains |
Deborah | DeFord | 1996 | Branford, Connecticut | writer | Artist | Young Adult Novel about the Female American Revolutionary Soldier Deborah Sampson Gannett |
Andrea | Woods | 1996 | Brooklyn, NY | independent dancer, choreographer, teacher | Artist | Ballad of the Black Cowboy |
Sandra | Bornstein | 1996 | Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York, NY | teacher | K-12 | The American Reaction to Darwin's Theory of Evolution |
Robert | Begiebing | 1996 | New Hampshire College | professor | Artist | The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Artist: Or, A True Account of Startling and Amusing Incidents from Itinerant Life |
Catherine | Gammon | 1996 | University of Pittsburgh | assistant professor | Artist | Research for a novel about the Salem witchcraft trials |
Kimmika | Williams-Witherspoon | 1996 | Temple University | faculty fellow | Artist | Life and Times of Lucy Terry |