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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurizio | Valsania | 2007-8 | University of Torino, Italy | associate professor | "The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828" | |
| Daniel | Lewis | 2010-11 | Northern Virginia Community College | assistant professor | The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861 | |
| Catherine | Corman | 2000-1 | Harvard University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851 |
| Michael | Jarvis | 2003-4 | University of Rochester | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | 'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815 |
| Vincent | DiGirolamo | 2000-1 | Colgate University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crying the News: Child Street Trading in America, 1830s-1890s |
| Karen | Weierman | 2000-1 | Worcester State College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870 |
| Marilyn | Baseler | 1999-00 | University of Texas at Austin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Strangers within our gates': America's Immigrants, 1776-1820 |
| Eliza | Richards | 2002-3 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Woody | Holton | 1999-00 | Bloomsburg University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Republics of Hope and the Empire of Despair: A Social Interpretation of the United States Constitution |
| Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
| Edward | Larkin | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Loyalist Origins of United States Culture |
| Kenneth | Banks | 2005-6 | University of North Carolina, Asheville | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800 |
| Seth | Rockman | 2006-7 | Brown University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy |
| Patricia | Crain | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States |
| Nancy | Shoemaker | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Whaling History of New England Indians |
| Sara | Crosby | 2005-6 | University of Notre Dame | Ph.D. candidate | AAS-NEH | The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860 |
| Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
| Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
| Cornelia | Dayton | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Self and Sanity in Early New England" |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2004-5 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850" |
| Martha | McNamara | 2004-5 | University of Maine | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850" |
| Martha | Rojas | 2004-5 | Sweet Briar College | AAS-NEH | "Diplomatic Letters" | |
| Manisha | Sinha | 2004-5 | University of Massachusetts | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865" |
| Eldrid | Herrington | 2003-4 | University College, Dublin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation |
| John | Coward | 2010-11 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | AHPC | Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press |
| Jonathan | Den Hartog | 2012-13 | Northwestern College | associate professor | AHPCS | Transatlantic Antijacobinism |
| Linzy | Brekke | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836 |
| Kathryn | Morse | 2007-8 | Middlebury College | associate professor | AHPCS | "The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images" |
| Jennifer | Van Horn | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | AHPCS | "The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)." |
| Kenneth | Cohen | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | AHPCS | 'To Give Good Sport': The Making and Meaning of Sporting Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840 |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
| Katherine | Hijar | 2004-5 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | "Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880" |
| Sally | Promey | 2001-2 | University of Maryland | professor | AHPCS | Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Ethan | Robey | 2002-3 | State University of New York at Binghamton | independent scholar | American Historical Print Collectors | The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
| John | Howe | 2002-3 | University of Minnesota | professor emeritus | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston |
| Molly | Farrell | 2012-13 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America |
| David | Hancock | 2003-4 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | associate professor | ASECS | Oceans of Wine, Empires of Commerce: Madeira Wine and the Self-Organization of the Atlantic Market Economy, 1640-1815 |
| Jared | Gardner | 2000-1 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature |
| Karin | Wulf | 2000-1 | American University | assistant professor | ASECS | In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America |
| Jonathan | Sassi | 1999-00 | College of Staten Island/CUNY | assistant professor | ASECS | Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere |
| Peter | Messer | 2007-8 | Mississippi State University | assistant professor | ASECS | "Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America" |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
| Hilary | Wyss | 2006-7 | Auburn University | associate professor | ASECS | Native Literacy and Education in Early America |
| Albrecht | Koschnik | 2009-10 | Library Company of Philadelphia | fellow | ASECS | American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850 |
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| David | Silverman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | associate professor | ASECS | Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America |
