NavigationDirectory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
| Rachel | Chernos Lin | 2002-3 | Brown University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807 |
| Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
| Carla | Pestana | 1988-89 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | Peterson | Sectarianism in Colonial Massachusetts |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Michael | Bellesiles | 1992-93 | Emory University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840 |
| Jordan | Watkins | 2015-16 | Utah Valley University | adjunct | Peterson | 'Another Attucks': The African-American Response to Dred Scott |
| Faye | Dudden | 1988-89 | Union College | assistant professor | Peterson | Gender in Performance: Women in the American Theater, 1790-1870 |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Kenneth | Haltman | 1993-94 | Bryn Mawr College | postdoctoral fellow | Peterson | The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture |
| Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
| Timothy | Marr | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Islamic Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Ben | Wright | 2015-16 | Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College | assistant professor | Peterson | Antislavery and American Salvation |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2004-5 | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic" |
| Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
| Carolyn | Lawes | 1990-91 | UC Davis | associate instructor | Peterson | The Second Great Awakening and the Development of Commercial Capitalism in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1820-48 |
| Kabria | Baumgartner | 2015-16 | College of Wooster | assistant professor | Peterson | The Work of Time and Love: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1987-88 | Northwestern University | associate professor | Peterson | Murder and the Gothic Imagination in American Culture |
| William | Todd | 1992-93 | University of Texas, Austin | professor emeritus | Peterson | A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792-1836 |
| Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
| Russell | Duncan | 1993-94 | John Carroll University | assistant professor | Peterson | Joshua Fights the Civil War: James Montgomery, 'Bleeding Kansas,' and Black Equality |
| 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 |
| Benjamind | Bascom | 2014-15 | University of IL, Urbana-Champaign | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early United States |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| Martin | Burke | 1994-95 | University College, Galway, Ireland | lecturer | Peterson | Signs of the Cross: Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700-00 |
| Richard | Gildrie | 1983-84 | Austin Peay State | professor | Peterson | New England Clerics and Popular Civility, 1679-1740 |
| Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
| Glenda | Goodman | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Erika | Gasser | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1600-1700 |
| Russell | Martin | 1992-93 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Almanacs of the Southern States, 1732-1860 |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2009-10 | University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle | associate professor | Peterson | 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890 |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
| Martha | Burns | 1993-94 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860 |
| Ben | Mutschler | 1996-97 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cultures of Sickness, Cultures of Health: Illness in New England, 1690-1820 |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
| Thomas | Coens | 2002-3 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829 |
| Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
| Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Kelly | Sisson | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936." |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1995-96 | UC Davis | professor | Peterson | Jacob's Pillows: Natural History and Memory in the Making of New England |
| Ellen | Gilbert | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | independent scholar | Peterson | St. Wulstan Society Papers |
| Molly | Berger | 1993-94 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29 |
