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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | Everton | 2003-4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Reese | Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Randi | Lewis | 2012-13 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819 |
| Kelly | Sisson | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936." |
| Thomas | Coens | 2002-3 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829 |
| Glenda | Goodman | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| 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 |
| Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| 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 |
| Emahunn | Campbell | 2013-14 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Construction of the Black Criminal |
| 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 |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| Nenette | Luarca-Shoaf | 2009-10 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination |
| Gloria | Whiting | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England |
| Honor | Sachs | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Christopher | Pastore | 2010-11 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836 |
| Claire | Gherini | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800 |
| Kenneth | Cohen | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | AHPCS | 'To Give Good Sport': The Making and Meaning of Sporting Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840 |
| Joanna | Frang | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Last | "Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830" |
| Nikos | Pappas | 2007-8 | University of Kentucky | PhD candidate | Reese | "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870) |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Matthew | Bahar | 2010-11 | University of Oklahoma | PhD candidate | Legacy | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| 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 |
| Philippa | Koch | 2013-14 | University of Chicago Divinity School | PhD candidate | Peterson | Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Allison | Malcom | 2008-9 | University of Illinois-Chicago | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870." |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gabriel | Loiacono | 2006-7 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888 |
| Adam | Thomas | 2013-14 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Legacy | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| Krystyn | Moon | 2000-1 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920 |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870 |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| 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 |
| Gretchen | Adams | 2000-1 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Specter of Salem in American Culture |
| Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
| Jessica | Linker | 2012-13 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | 'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860 |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| 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 |
