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 | Date |
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Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Martin | Brückner | 1998-99 | University of Delaware | assistant professor | ASECS | The Culture of Geographic Letters in Early America |
Sarah | Beetham | 2012-13 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917 |
Alison | Klaum | 2010-11 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
J. | Garrison | 2014-15 | University of Delaware | Professor in the Winterthur Program in american Material Culture | Last | Freight and the Commercial Landscapes of the Atlantic World, 1650-1860 |
Jordan | Howell | 2016-17 | University of Delaware | Ph.D. candidate | Reese | The Robinson Crusoe Online Bibliography |
Christa | Vogelius | 2015-16 | University of Copenhagen | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America |
Harlow | Sheidley | 1983-84 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservatives and the Epic of New England, 1815-1836 |
Nancy | Shoemaker | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Whaling History of New England Indians |
Bradley | Dean | 1987-88 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | Thoreau as Lecturer |
Richard | Brown | 1977-78 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | Communications Networks in Pre-IndustrialAmerica |
Peter | Baldwin | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Tracy | "American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930" |
Richard | Brown | 1992-93 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in Early America,1650-1865 |
Walter | Woodward | 1997-98 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Magic in Colonization: Religion, Science and the Occult in the Creation of New England Culture |
Yan | Li | 1986-87 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Transformation of the Massachusetts Constitution, 1780-1860 |
Cornelia | Dayton | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Self and Sanity in Early New England" |
Altina | Waller | 2001-2 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America |
Harry | Stout | 1980-81 | University of Connecticut | associate professor | Daniels | A Cultural History of the Sermon in Colonial New England |
Harry | Stout | 1988-90 | University of Connecticut | associate professor | RA | A Biography of George Whitefield |
Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
Amy | Sopcak-Joseph | 2015-16 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877 |
Rudy | Favretti | 1978-79 | University of Connecticut | professor | Daniels | Landscaping Use of Trees in New England |
Catherine | Thompson | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850 |
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 |
Robb | Haberman | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | Ph.D. candidate | Legacy | "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America" |
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 |
Dexter | Gabriel | 2017-18 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Peterson | Performing Freedom in the Mighty Experiment |
Karl | Kroeger | 1973-74 | University of Colorado, Boulder | music librarian | Mellon short-term fellow | The Complete Works of William Billings, vol4 |
Jackson | Main | 1987-88 | University of Colorado, Boulder | adjunct professor | RA | Leaders of several Newly Established Counties, ca 1800 |
Karl | Kroeger | 1987-88 | University of Colorado, Boulder | music librarian | Peterson | The Complete Works of William Billings |
Thora | Brylowe | 2017-18 | University of Colorado, Boulder | assistant professor | Botein | Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper |
Bernd | Herzogenrath | 2003-4 | University of Cologne | researcher | Ebeling | Cotton Mather’s Conception of the Body |
Robert | Arner | 1991-92 | University of Cincinnati | professor | NEMLA | The Politics of Knowledge in the Early Republic: American Encyclopedias from the Federal Period to the Jacksonian Era |
Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
Geoffrey | Plank | 1996-97 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | ASECS | The Culture of Conquest, Acadia or Nova Scotia in the British Colonial Imagination, 1690-1759 |
Philippa | Koch | 2013-14 | University of Chicago Divinity School | PhD candidate | Peterson | Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America |
Katherine | Chavigny | 1993-94 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | American Confessions: The Formation of Antebellum Addiction Narratives |
Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America |
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 |
Michael | Hackenberg | 1986-87 | University of Chicago | assistant professor | Boni | The Subscription Publishing Phenomenon; William Still's Selling of The Underground Railroad in Philadelphia; The Firm of Deming and Francis in Wethersfield, Conn; The Career of Robert Sears of New York |
Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
Peter | Wirzbicki | 2014-15 | University of Chicago | Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper/Schmidt Society of Fellows | Packer | Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists |
Stuart | McLean | 1981-82 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Daniels | California Gold Fever |
Jean | O'Brien-Kehoe | 1987-88 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 |
Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
James | Secord | 2004-5 | University of Cambridge | professor | Botein | "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" |
Jaclyn | Schultz | 2017-18 | University of California, Santa Cruz | Ph.D. candidate | Schiller | Learning the Value of a Dollar |
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 |