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	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
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

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