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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
| Matthew | Amato | 2011-12 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s |
| Jonathan | Senchyne | 2009-10 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Bottles of Ink, and Reams of Paper': Racial Mixture and Legibility in Antebellum Illustration |
| 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. |
| Wendy | Bellion | 2011-12 | University of Delaware | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| 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 |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| Arden | Stern | 2009-10 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface |
| Hugh | McIntosh | 2010-11 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel |
| Natalie | Deibel | 2011-12 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 |
| Sarah | Beetham | 2012-13 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917 |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| Justin | Clark | 2012-13 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Frances | Clarke | 2012-13 | University of Sydney | lecturer | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War |
| 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 |
| Jeffrey | Groves | 2011-12 | Harvey Mudd College | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society |
| Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
| Phillip | Troutman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials |
| Amber | LaPiana | 2011-12 | Washington State University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Mapping Literary Regionalism |
| Brett | Grainger | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870 |
| Anne | Verplanck | 2011-12 | Penn State University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880 |
| Mazie | Harris | 2012-13 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884 |
| Dominique | Zino | 2011-12 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James |
| Mairin | Odle | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830 |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2012-13 | University of Missouri | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery |
| Zara | Anishanslin | 2013-14 | College of Staten Island | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution |
| Brian | Valencia | 2012-13 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque |
| Caroline | Frank | 2013-14 | Brown University | visiting scholar | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America |
| Gordon | Fraser | 2013-14 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence |
| Sarah | Gerk | 2013-14 | Oberlin College | visiting teacher | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music |
| 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 |
| Robert | Lee | 2013-14 | University of CA, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851 |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2013-14 | Purdue University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Image in the Text |
| Mary | Fuhrer | 2013-14 | independent scholar | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840 | |
| Brett | Mizelle | 2013-14 | CSU, Long Beach | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Killing Animals in American History |
| Sarah | Weicksel | 2013-14 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era |
| Betsy | Klimasmith | 2008-9 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Botein | "Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction." |
| Faith | Barrett | 2006-7 | Lawrence University | assistant professor | Botein | 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
| Michael | Carter | 2005-6 | University of Southern California | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839 |
