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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Nancy	Siegel	2017-18	Towson University	professor	Peterson	Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic
April	Alliston	1994-95	Princeton	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
Pamela	Schirmeister	1994-95	New York University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
Patrick	Luck	2012-13	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
Wendy	Greenhouse	1987-88	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Tudors and Stuarts in Antebellum America
Kariann	Yokota	1999-00	University of California, Los Angeles	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation, 1789-1830
Yan	Li	1986-87	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Transformation of the Massachusetts Constitution, 1780-1860
Curtis	Hinsley	1986-87	Colgate University	associate professor	Peterson	Anthropology in Boston, 1860-20
Todd	Thompson	2017-18	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	associate professor	Peterson	Savage Laughter: Nineteenth-Century Humor and the South Seas
Maria	Bollettino	2005-6	University of Texas at Austin	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
Paul	Foos	1996-97	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Mexican Wars, 1835-1853: Manifest Destiny and American Society
Gillian	Avery	1985-86		author	Peterson	The American Pattern of Childhood
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Sally	Griffith	1992-93	Villanova University	associate professor	Peterson	Boosterism in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
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
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
Melissa	Homestead	1996-97	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century AmericanWomen Authors and Literary Property
Susan	Graham	2005-6	University of Minnesota	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Steven	Stoll	1998-99	Yale University	assistant professor	Peterson	Larding the Lean Earth: Agriculture and he Environment in America, 1800-1850
Robert	Gross	1984-85	Amherst College	associate professor	Peterson	The Ideology of Print: The Book and Social Change in America
Martha	Burns	1993-94	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860
Marcus	Daniel	1992-93	Princeton University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Ribaldry and Billingsgate: Popular Journalism and Political Culture in the Early Republic
Betsy	Homsher	1998-99	UC Santa Barbara	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Diaries of Sally Ripley Stearns
Timothy	Helwig	2005-6	University of Maryland	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries
Meredith	McGill	1995-96	Harvard University	assistant professor	Peterson	American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting Rewriting Romanticism Fashioning the Marketplace
Leon	Jackson	2003-4	University of South Carolina	assistant professor	Peterson	The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s
Molly	Berger	1993-94	Case Western Reserve University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
David	Nord	1986-87	University of Indiana, Bloomington	associate professor	Peterson	Journalism and Cities in American History
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
RJ	Boutelle	2014-15	Vanderbil University	Ph.D. Candidate in English	Peterson	Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism
Andrew	Burstein	1997-98	University of Northern Iowa	assistant professor	Peterson	Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution ofAmerica’s Romantic Self-Image
Emahunn	Campbell	2013-14	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Construction of the Black Criminal
Cathy	Davidson	1984-85	Michigan State University	associate professor	Peterson	The Origins of American Fiction
Nian-Sheng	Huang	2005-6	California State University Channel Islands	associate professor	Peterson	The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
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
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Philip	Gura	1989-90	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	William S. Newman Distinguished Professor	Peterson	The Reverend Nathan Fiske and the Cultural Transformation of Central Massachusetts
Claudia	Bushman	1991-92		independent scholar	Peterson	America Discovers Columbus
Mason	Lowance	1989-90	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	professor	Peterson	Uncle Tom's Cabin and the New England Sermon Tradition
Ryan	Carr	2013-14	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890
Richard	Rath	1997-98	Brandeis Univesity	PhD candidate	Peterson	North American Soundways, 1600-1800
Eleanor	McConnell	2006-07	Brandeis	Ph.D. Candidate	Peterson	A Scarce Plenty: Economics, Citizenship, and Opportunity in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1760-1820
Elizabeth	Johnston	2005-6	Harvard College	teaching assistant	Peterson	Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860
Anne	McLucas	1985-86	Harvard University	associate professor	Peterson	The Connection Between American Folk Song and Theatre
Lydia	Schurman	1988-89	Northern Virginia Community College	professor	Peterson	Publishers, Publications, and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World, 1860-15
Karl	Kroeger	1987-88	University of Colorado, Boulder	music librarian	Peterson	The Complete Works of William Billings

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