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 |
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RJ | Boutelle | 2014-15 | Vanderbil University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism |
Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | Dirty Politics in Early America |
David | Nord | 1986-87 | University of Indiana, Bloomington | associate professor | Peterson | Journalism and Cities in American History |
Andrew | Burstein | 1997-98 | University of Northern Iowa | assistant professor | Peterson | Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution ofAmerica’s Romantic Self-Image |
Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
Richard | Rath | 1997-98 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Peterson | North American Soundways, 1600-1800 |
James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
Michel | Fabre | 1991-92 | University of Paris III | professor | Peterson | The Creoles of Color: Cultural Production as a Basis of Group Identity |
Jessica | Farrell | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | (Re)Capturing Empire: A Reconsideration of Liberia’s Precarious Sovereignty and American Empire as Exception in the Nineteenth Century |
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 |
Eleanor | McConnell | 2006-07 | Brandeis | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | A Scarce Plenty: Economics, Citizenship, and Opportunity in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1760-1820 |
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 |
Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement |
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 |
Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
James | Raven | 1986-87 | Pembroke College, Cambridge | fellow | Peterson | The Economics of Bookselling in Britian 1700-1800; Print and Trade in Eighteenth-Century Britiain |
Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
GeneviŠve | Fabre-Moreau | 1991-92 | University of Paris VII | professor | Peterson | Afro-American Feasts and Celebrations in the United States |
Anne | McLucas | 1985-86 | Harvard University | associate professor | Peterson | The Connection Between American Folk Song and Theatre |
Kirsten | Fischer | 2016-17 | University of Minnesota | associate professor of history | Peterson | Vitalism in America: Elihu Palmer’s Radical Religion in the Early Republic |
Elizabeth | Bethel | 1985-86 | Lander University | associate professor | Peterson | Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation |
Catherine | Kelly | 1987-88 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | Mothers and Daughters: Intergenerational Conflict and Continuity, 1820-39 |
Lydia | Schurman | 1988-89 | Northern Virginia Community College | professor | Peterson | Publishers, Publications, and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World, 1860-15 |
Rafia | Zafar | 1999-00 | Washington University | associate professor | Peterson | And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American |
Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
Mary Beth | Norton | 1984-85 | Cornell University | professor | Peterson | Gender in Seventeenth-Century America |
Seth | Cotlar | 1997-98 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803 |
Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
James | Raven | 1994-95 | Magdalene College, Cambridge | fellow; director | Peterson | The Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth Century |
Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
Michael | West | 1985-86 | University of Pittsburgh | professor | Peterson | Thoreau and the Search for the language of Nature, 1690-1865' |
Laura | Kennelly | 1994-95 | Baldwin-Wallace College | assistant editor | Peterson | Samuel West: Private Life in Revolutionary Times, 1739-1808 |
Richard | Schwarzlose | 1984-85 | Northwestern University | associate professor | Peterson | The Origins of the Newspaper Press |
Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
Katherine | Grant | 1994-95 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Lyceum Movement in America, 1826-1890 |
Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
Sueanna | Smith | 2015-16 | University of South Carolina | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Cultural Work of the Early American Fraternla Sphere |
Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
Ellen | Westbrook | 1992-93 | Southern Mississippi University | assistant professor | Peterson | Cultural Captives: Euro Amer Indian Literary Landscapes |
Angela Pulley | Hudson | 2016-17 | Texas A&M University | associate professor of history | Peterson | Indian Doctresses in the Nineteenth-Century United States |
Leon | Jackson | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | assistant professor | Peterson | The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s |
Carol | Faulkner | 2014-15 | Syracuse University | Associate Professor of History | Peterson | The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America |
Jean | O'Brien-Kehoe | 1987-88 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 |
Rebecca | Tannenbaum | 1994-95 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Woman's Calling: Women's Medical Practice in Early New England |
Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |