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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Elizabeth | Dillon | 2010-11 | Northeastern University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World |
| 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 |
| Gudrun | Löhrer | 2010-11 | John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin | visiting professor | Ebeling | A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
| Daniel | Lewis | 2010-11 | Northern Virginia Community College | assistant professor | Last | The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861 |
| Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
| Anne | Roth-Reinhardt | 2010-11 | University of Minnesota | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction |
| Elizabeth | Pryor | 2010-11 | Smith College | assistant professor | Peterson | The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840 |
| Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
| Suzanne | Rivecca | 2010 | San Francisco, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for a novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff |
| Kathryn | Nuernberger | 2010 | Glouster, OH | poet | Hearst | research for a collection of poems titled "Curiosities," which merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos |
| Wendy | Call | 2010 | Seattle, WA | writer, non-fiction | Baron | research for series of literary essays about the grieving process |
| Sean | Hill | 2010 | Bemidji, MN | poet | Hearst | research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s |
| Stephanie | Solomon | 2010 | Hermosa Beach, CA | performer | Jay and Deborah Last | research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution" |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2009-10 | University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle | associate professor | Peterson | 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890 |
| Radiclani | Clytus | 2009-10 | Tufts University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual |
| Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
| Emily | Pawley | 2009-10 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860 |
| 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 |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century 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 |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2009-10 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860 |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| James | Snead | 2009-10 | George Mason University | associate professor | Peterson | The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America |
| Ezra | Greenspan | 2009-10 | Southern Methodist University | Professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar | William Wells Brown: An African-American Life in Letters |
| 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 |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Tanya | Sheehan | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor |
| Arden | Stern | 2009-10 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface |
| Jennifer | Wilson | 2009-10 | The Graduate Center, The City University of New York | PhD candidate | Peterson | Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de |
| 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 |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Albrecht | Koschnik | 2009-10 | Library Company of Philadelphia | fellow | ASECS | American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850 |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 2009-10 | SUNY-Fredonia | Associate Professor | AAS-NEH | The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865 |
| April | Haynes | 2009-10 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Ph.D. in history | Hench | Riotous Flesh: Confronting Gender and Sexuality through Grahamite Health Reform, 1830-1860 |
| Gian | Iachini | 2009-10 | University of Milan | teaching assistant | Drawn-to-Art | 'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| 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 |
| Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
| Michael | Winship | 2009-10 | University of Texas | professor | AAS-NEH | Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950 |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Jennifer | Pierce | 2009-10 | The University of Iowa | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2009-10 | Florida International University | assistant professor | Peterson | We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840 |
