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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillip | Troutman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials |
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| Laura | Schiavo | 1999-00 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class |
| Richard | Boles | 2013-14 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850 |
| David | Silverman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | associate professor | ASECS | Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America |
| 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 |
| James | Snead | 2009-10 | George Mason University | associate professor | Peterson | The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America |
| Celeste | Roberge | 2008 | Gainesville, FL | sculptor | Hearst | research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture |
| Lauren | Klein | 2013-14 | GA Insitute of Technology | assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013 |
| Alexandra | Ganser | 2009-10 | Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg | assistant professor | Ebeling | (Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900 |
| Louise | Stevenson | 2000-1 | Franklin and Marshall College | professor | Botein | Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820 |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2013-14 | Framingham State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War |
| Ann | Johnson | 2002-3 | Fordham University | assistant professor | Botein | Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| 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 |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2011-12 | Florida International University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850 |
| Sarah | McCoubrey | 2007 | Fayetteville, NY | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc. |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| 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 |
| Brian | Luskey | 2003-4 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
| Sonia | Hazard | 2013-14 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| Mitchell | Snay | 2000-1 | Denison University | associate professor | Tracy | A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction |
| Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
| Joseph | Cullon | 2005-6 | Dartmouth College | assistant professor | Hench | Colonial Shipwrights and their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early New England |
| 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 |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| Cindy | Lobel | 2004-5 | CUNY Graduate Center | Ph.D. | Hench | Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1780-1860 |
| Brett | Mizelle | 2013-14 | CSU, Long Beach | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Killing Animals in American History |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Jacqueline | Goldsby | 2000-1 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life |
| Catherine | Haulman | 1999-00 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820 |
| 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 |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | AAS-NEH | Cinderella's Family |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2012-13 | Connecticut College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries |
| Melissa | Range | 2013 | Columbia, MO | poet | Baron | research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator" |
| Ilyon | Woo | 2004-5 | Columbia University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Mother against Mother" |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Christopher | Grasso | 1999-00 | College of William and Mary | associate professor | Peterson | Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century |
| Robert | Gross | 2002-3 | College of William and Mary | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Transcendentalist and Their World |
