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 |
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Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Michael | Sappol | 1996-97 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Singing the Body Electric |
Paul | Foos | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Mexican Wars, 1835-1853: Manifest Destiny and American Society |
Melissa | Homestead | 1996-97 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century AmericanWomen Authors and Literary Property |
Ben | Mutschler | 1996-97 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cultures of Sickness, Cultures of Health: Illness in New England, 1690-1820 |
Barbara | Lacey | 1996-97 | Saint Joseph College | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Religious Imagery Transformed: The Eighteenth-Century American Illustrated Imprint |
David | Blight | 1996-97 | Amherst College | associate professor | Peterson | Reunion and Race: the Civil War in American Memory, 1870-15 |
David | Nord | 1996-97 | University of Indiana, Bloomington | professor | Botein | The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860 |
Sergei | Zhuk | 1996-97 | Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine | Associate Professor of history | Peterson | 'Brothers in Divorce': Quakers' Attitudes toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
Philip | Morgan | 1996-97 | Florida State University | professor | AAS-NEH | The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century |
John | Evelev | 1996-97 | Duke University | recent PhD | Botein | Tolerable Entertainment:' Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York |
Paula | Bennett | 1996-97 | University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Dissenting Angels: The Emergence of Modern Subjectivity in American Women's Poetry, 1850-00 |
John | Nerone | 1996-97 | Institute of Communications Research, IL | associate professor | AAS-NEH | US Newspapers from the Revolution to the Industrial Revolution |
David | Anthony | 1996-97 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Peterson | Scandalous Aesthetics: Masculine Emotion and the Birth of the Public Sphere in Antebellum America |
Megan | Haley-Newman | 1996-97 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pest Control Strategies and Their Social Implications in the Chesapeake Area, 1600-1800 |
Timothy | Marr | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Islamic Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century America |
Rosemarie | Zagarri | 1996-97 | George Mason | Associate Professor of history | AAS-ASECS | Gender and the First Party System |
Jennifer | Baker | 1996-97 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Currency of Words: Finance and Literary Imagination in Early America |
Gregory | Maertz | 1996-97 | St John's University | associate professor | Peterson | Goethe's Translators, Critics, and Readers in Nineteenth-Century New England |
Cynthia | Packard | 1996-97 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | lecturer; Ph D candidate | AHPCS | The Black Image in Photography, Art and the Popular Press, 1850-1876 |
Rachel | Wheeler | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Forgotten Conversation: The Indian European Negotiation of Religion in the Eighteenth Century Northeast |
Mary Anne | Lutz | 1996-97 | Frostburg State University | associate professor | RA | The Politics of the American Picturesque: Perceptions of Land and Native Americans |
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 |
Karen | Moran | 1997 | Auburn Middle School, Auburn, MA | teacher and co-ordinator | K-12 | The First National Women's Right's Convention Held in Worcester in 1850 |
Marilyn | Arsem | 1997 | Museum of Fine Arts | on faculty | Wallace | Research 19th century Spritualism, as well as late 19th century daily life in New England, for a performance entitled 'Spirit Messages' |
Stephen | O'Connor | 1997 | New York, NY | non-fiction writer | Artist | A history of the Orphan Trains |
Pamela | Keech | 1997 | New York, NY | visual artist and independent curator | Wallace | Nurseries - Aninstallation picturing the lives of children in post Civil War America |
Marguerite | Kirkpatrick | 1997 | Logan County High School | library media specialist | K-12 | Study of journals, diaries, amateur newspapers, and letters of young people to use in curriculum development for interdisciplinary unites in social studies, language arts, family living and media classes |
Stephen | Simons | 1997 | The Peter Rouget | teacher | K-12 | Middle School American istory Curriculum on Cookbooks of the Early Republic |
Mark | Gale | 1997 | Coupeville High School, Coupeville, WA | teacher | K-12 | Trace the rise of the anti-slavery movement in New England and the role of free African-Americans |
Jennifer | Hynes | 1997-98 | West Virginia University | visiting instructor | Tracy | Nineteenth-Century Women and the News: The Case of Elizabeth Stoddard |
Kevin | Sheets | 1997-98 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Latin America, The Dead Language, Schools, and the Culture of the Educated Man |
Phillip | Troutman | 1997-98 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Geographies of Family and Market: Enslaved Migration in Antebellum Virginia and Washington, DC |
Burton | Bledstein | 1997-98 | University of Illinois, Chicago | associate professor | Botein | By the Book': Reference and Information as Authority in 19th-century America |
Elisabeth | Nichols | 1997-98 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pray Don't Tell Anybody That I Write Politics': Private Reflections and Public Admonitions in the Early Republic |
Alan | Ruffman | 1997-98 | Geomarine Associates Ltd | president | Peterson | Historic Meterology and the 1775 Hurricane |
Richard | Rath | 1997-98 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Peterson | North American Soundways, 1600-1800 |
Joanne | Passet | 1997-98 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The American Debate on Marriage: Religion, Gender, and Social Radicalism, 1850-00 |
Fredrika | Teute | 1997-98 | Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture | Editor of Publications | AAS-NEH | Life on the Margins: Margaret Bayard Smith's Vision of Early Washington Society |
Susan | Ryan | 1997-98 | UNC, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race and the Language Benevolence in Antebellum America |
Patricia | Crain | 1997-98 | Princeton University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Story of A: Alphabetization and American Literature from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter |
Harvey | Green | 1997-98 | Northeastern University | professor | Peterson | Myth and History in American Literary and Material Culture, 1850-10 |
Kathleen | Brown | 1997-98 | University of Pennsylvania | assistant professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Foul Bodies and Infected Worlds: Cleanliness and Cultural Authority in Early Modern England and America, 1500-1900 |
Elaine | Jackson-Retondo | 1997-98 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Penitentiary as an Artifact of the Cultural Landscape - A Comparative Analysis, 1780-1860 |
David | Morgan | 1997-98 | Valparaiso University | associate professor | AHPCS | Millenial Progress |
Edward | Pearson | 1997-98 | Franklin & Marshall College | assistant professor | RA | Plays, Playhouses, and Players in Early America, 1720-1825 |
Lesley | Ginsberg | 1997-98 | Stanford University | recent PhD | AAS-NEH | The Romance of Dependency: Childhood and the Ideology of Love in American Literature, 1825-1870 |
Carolyn | Eastman | 1997-98 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Nation of Speechiers: Oratory, Print, and the Making of Gendered American Public, 1780-1850 |
Susan | Williams | 1997-98 | Ohio State University | associate professor | Botein | Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00 |
Bret | Carroll | 1997-98 | University of Texas, Arlington | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Religion and Masculinity in Antebellum America |
Seth | Cotlar | 1997-98 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803 |