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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl | Kroeger | 1987-88 | University of Colorado, Boulder | music librarian | Peterson | The Complete Works of William Billings |
| Jackson | Main | 1987-88 | University of Colorado, Boulder | adjunct professor | RA | Leaders of several Newly Established Counties, ca 1800 |
| 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 |
| Stuart | McLean | 1981-82 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Daniels | California Gold Fever |
| Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Jean | O'Brien-Kehoe | 1987-88 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
| 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 |
| Peter | Wirzbicki | 2014-15 | University of Chicago | Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper/Schmidt Society of Fellows | Packer | Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| Meredith | Bak | 2010-11 | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture |
| Patricia | Cohen | 2001-2 | University of California, Santa Barbara | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols: Sex and Marriage Reform in the 1840s |
| Elisa | Tamarkin | 2002-3 | University of California, Santa Barbara | assistant professor | Sigety Family | American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 |
| Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
| Eric | Altice | 2000-1 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Reese | Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America |
| 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 |
| Adam | Thomas | 2013-14 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Legacy | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
| Daniel | Rood | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | Ph.D. in history | Hench | Plantation Technocrats: A History of Science and Technology in the Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830-1860 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alan | Taylor | 2000-1 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | Ph.D. | Hench | Crossing Over: Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1999-00 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock |
| Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| 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 |
| Katherine | Mintie | 2015-16 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Last | Legal Lenses: Intellectual Property Laws and American Photography, 1839-1890 |
| William | Wagner | 2006-7 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Legacy | Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865 |
| Gillian | Osborne | 2015-16 | University of California, Berkeley | postdoctoral | Packer | Henry David Thoreau and Antebellum Botany |
| Hannah | Farber | 2011-12 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Leila | Mansouri | 2014-15 | University of CA, Berkeley | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | Constituent Characters |
| Robert | Lee | 2013-14 | University of CA, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851 |
| Carsten | Junker | 2011-12 | University of Bremen | assistant professor | Ebeling | Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates |
| Karsten | Kummer | 2002-3 | University of Bremen | lecturer | Ebeling | Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2003-4 | University of Arkansas | assistant professor | Peterson | Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Margaret | Abruzzo | 2013-14 | University of Alabama | associate professor | Lapides | Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin and Moral Responsibility |
