NavigationDirectory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
| Joseph | Stubenrauch | 2008-9 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Last | "Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution." |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Wendy | Katz | 2008-9 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Last | "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862." |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Lara | Cohen | 2008-9 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Botein | "Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature." |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Letter and Spirit" |
| 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." |
| Kelly | Sisson | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936." |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Janet | Pritchard | 2008 | Mansfield Center, CT | photographier | Jay and Deborah Last | Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s |
| Debra | Gwartney | 2008 | Eugene, OR | non-fitction writer | Baron | research of book on Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first European woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836 |
| Celeste | Roberge | 2008 | Gainesville, FL | sculptor | Hearst | research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture |
| Martha | Carlson-Bradley | 2008 | Hillsborough, NH | poet | Baron | research for collection of poems, New England Primer |
| Sandra | Jackson-Opoku | 2008 | Chicago, IL | novelist | Hearst | God's Gift to the Natives, novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora |
| 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" |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | Dirty Politics in Early America |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2007-8 | University of Toronto | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
| Maura | D'Amore | 2007-8 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | "Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825 |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Nikos | Pappas | 2007-8 | University of Kentucky | PhD candidate | Reese | "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870) |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Sarah | Carter | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Last | "Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Maurizio | Valsania | 2007-8 | University of Torino, Italy | associate professor | Last | The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828 |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| Michael | Komanecky | 2007-8 | independent scholar | Last | "Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions" | |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845 |
| Joanna | Cohen | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Last | "'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876" |
| 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" |
| Kathryn | Morse | 2007-8 | Middlebury College | associate professor | AHPCS | "The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images" |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
