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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| J. Brenton | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | PhD candidate | Botein | Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Linford | Fisher | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775" |
| Michael | Simoncelli | 1999-00 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | Becoming Northern: The Clash of Regional Cultures and the Creation of a Northern Identity in Ohio, 1770-1877 |
| 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 |
| Myron | Gray | 2012-13 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | French Music in Federal Philadelphia |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| 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 |
| Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
| Melanie | Hernandez | 2012-13 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Richard | Bell | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830 |
| 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 |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Elizabeth | Hawley | 2002-3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD candidate | Reese | American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890 |
| William | Wagner | 2006-7 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Legacy | Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865 |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Emahunn | Campbell | 2013-14 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Construction of the Black Criminal |
| Eric | Altice | 2000-1 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Reese | Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America |
| Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
| Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
| Kara | French | 2011-12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850 |
| James | Finley | 2012-13 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Packer | 'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing |
| Joanna | Cohen | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Last | "'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876" |
| Jennifer | Van Horn | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | AHPCS | "The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)." |
| Kimberly | Gladman | 2000-1 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Mysteries and Miseries: City Mysteries Novels and Class in Antebellum America |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Mazie | Harris | 2012-13 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884 |
| Joanne | van der Woude | 2006-7 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Reese | Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century |
| Shana | Klein | 2013-14 | Univeristy of New Mexico | PhD candidate | AHPCS | The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900 |
| Matthew | Hale | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Jeffrey | Kaja | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "From Rivers to Roads: Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800." |
| Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century 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 |
| 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 |
| Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
| Natasha | Lightfoot | 2006-7 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858 |
| Philippa | Koch | 2013-14 | University of Chicago Divinity School | PhD candidate | Peterson | Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America |
