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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| Michael | Cohen | 2005-6 | New York University | PhD. Candidate | Tracy | Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915 |
| Ross | Barrett | 2005-6 | Boston University | PhD. Candidate | Drawn to Art | Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
| Nicholas | Wrightson | 2006-7 | Jesus College, Oxford University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | "Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65" |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Matthew | Wittmann | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century |
| Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
| 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 |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD. Candidate | Reese | Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860 |
| Coleman | Hutchison | 2005-6 | Northwestern University | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Occasioning Verse and Volume |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
| Molly | Hardy | 2012-13 | Southwestern University | post-doc fellow | NeMLA | Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production |
| Britt | Rusert | 2011-12 | Temple University | postdoc fellow | Peterson | Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
| Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
| Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
| Nancy | Shoemaker | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Whaling History of New England Indians |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| James | Secord | 2004-5 | University of Cambridge | professor | Botein | "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Robert | Gross | 2002-3 | College of William and Mary | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Transcendentalist and Their World |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1999-00 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock |
| Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | TRUE | Cinderella's Family |
| Alan | Taylor | 2000-1 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution |
| Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
| Faye | Dudden | 2003-4 | Colgate University | professor | Tracy | The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870 |
| Philip | Gura | 2002-3 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade |
| Louise | Stevenson | 2000-1 | Franklin and Marshall College | professor | Botein | Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820 |
| Michael | Winship | 2009-10 | University of Texas | professor | TRUE | Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950 |
| Helen | Horowitz | 1999-00 | Smith College | professor | Mellon Postdoctoral Research fellow | Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80 |
| Howard | Chudacoff | 2000-1 | Brown University | professor | Peterson | Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880 |
| Michael | Hoeflich | 2001-2 | University of Kansas School of Law | professor | Reese | The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| 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 |
| Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
| Sally | Promey | 2001-2 | University of Maryland | professor | AHPCS | Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief |
| Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
| Graham | Hodges | 1999-00 | Colgate University | professor | Peterson | David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom |
| Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
| Richard | Fox | 2000-1 | University of Southern California | professor | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow | American Jesus |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
