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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aston | Gonzalez | 2011-12 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity |
| 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 |
| Caitlin | Rosenthal | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Andrew | Fagal | 2013-14 | Binghamton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2009-10 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860 |
| Steven | Harthorn | 2002-3 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD candidate | Botein | James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851 |
| Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
| Angela | George | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Last | "The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893" |
| Sarah | Weicksel | 2013-14 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era |
| Catherine | Haulman | 1999-00 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820 |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Linzy | Brekke | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836 |
| Kristen | Highland | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Botein | At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
