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
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Meredith	Bak	2010-11	University of California, Santa Barbara	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Christopher	Oliver	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
Christopher	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
Jessica	Collier	2010-11	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
Daniel	Lewis	2010-11	Northern Virginia Community College	assistant professor	Last	The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
Sean	Harvey	2010-11	Northern Illinois University	visiting assistant professor	AAS-NEH	American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
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
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
John	Coward	2010-11	University of Tulsa	associate professor	AHPCS	Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Kerin	Holt	2010-11	Utah State University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Lisa	Wilson	2010-11	Connecticut College	professor	AAS-NEH	Cinderella's Family
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
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
Alison	Klaum	2010-11	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Sarah	Keyes	2010-11	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Peterson	Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Matthew	Bahar	2010-11	University of Oklahoma	PhD candidate	Legacy	People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Daniel	Rood	2010-11	University of California, Irvine	Ph.D. in history	Hench	Plantation Technocrats: A History of Science and Technology in the Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830-1860
Hugh	McIntosh	2010-11	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
Sara	Lampert	2010-11	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
T.J.	Tomlin	2010-11	University of Northern Colorado	assistant professor	Botein	A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Laura	Murray	2010-11	Queen's University	associate professor	Tracy	What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
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
Kelle	Groom	2011	New Smyrna Beach, FL	poet	Hearst	research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
Mary Beth	Ellis	2011	Cincinnati, OH	non-fiction writer	Jay and Deborah Last	research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers"
Lisa	Hayes	2011	Bowie, MD	playwright	Baron	research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
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
Sari	Altschuler	2011-12	City University of New York, The Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Legacy	National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Aston	Gonzalez	2011-12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
John	Demos	2011-12	Yale University	Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Carsten	Junker	2011-12	University of Bremen	assistant professor	Ebeling	Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates

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