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
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
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
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Michelle	Burnham	2011-12	Santa Clara University	professor	ASECS	The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific
Jack	Larkin	2011-12	Clark University	affiliate professor	AAS-NEH	David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
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
Sari	Altschuler	2011-12	City University of New York, The Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Legacy	National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Aston	Gonzalez	2011-12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
John	Demos	2011-12	Yale University	Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Carsten	Junker	2011-12	University of Bremen	assistant professor	Ebeling	Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates
Claire	Gherini	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Matthew	Garrett	2011-12	Wesleyan University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic
Nicolas	Barreyre	2011-12	University Paris Ouest Nanterre	assistant professor	Tracy	Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Jeffrey	Groves	2011-12	Harvey Mudd College	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Matthew	Amato	2011-12	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	AAS-NEH	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Amber	LaPiana	2011-12	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Mapping Literary Regionalism
Julien	Mauduit	2011-12	Universite du Quebec a Montreal	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials
Adam	Gordon	2011-12	UCLA	Ph.D. in English	Hench	Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America
Wendy	Bellion	2011-12	University of Delaware	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory
Deborah	Brevoort	2012	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Baron	research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Nancy	Bowen	2012	Brooklyn, NY	artist, mixed media	Jay and Deborah Last	research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs"
Catherine	Reid	2012	Asheville, NC	writer, essayist	Baron	research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Anne	Harley	2012	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	Hearst	research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record
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
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Dawn	Peterson	2012-13	New York University	Ph.D. in American Studies	Hench	Unusual Sympathies: Settler Imperialism, Slavery, and the Politics of Adoption in the Early U.S. Republic
Scott	McLaren	2012-13	York University	associate professor	Botein	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Daniel	Mandell	2012-13	Truman State University	professor	AAS-NEH	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Alpen	Razi	2012-13	University of Toronto	PhD candidate	Legacy	Colored Citizens of the World
Christopher	Hunter	2012-13	California Institute of Technology	assistant professor	Reese	A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
Mairin	Odle	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
Randi	Lewis	2012-13	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
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
Jennifer	Manion	2012-13	Connecticut College	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Birte	Christ	2012-13	Justus-Liebig-University Giessen	assistant professor	Ebeling	A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849
Molly	Hardy	2012-13	Southwestern University	post-doc fellow	NEMLA	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Claire	Parfait	2012-13	Universite de Paris 13	professor	Reese	African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography

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