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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Masten | 2001-2 | visiting assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | The Work of Art | |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
| 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 |
| Hilary | Wyss | 2006-7 | Auburn University | associate professor | ASECS | Native Literacy and Education in Early America |
| Barbara | Hochman | 2001-2 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | senior lecturer | NEMLA | Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution |
| 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 |
| Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
| Eliza | Richards | 2002-3 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2004-5 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850" |
| Ross | Barrett | 2005-6 | Boston University | PhD. Candidate | Drawn to Art | Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture |
| Kathleen | Lawrence | 2004-5 | Boston University | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism" |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2003-4 | Boston University | assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850 |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Matthew | Hale | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Joanna | Frang | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Last | "Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830" |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Gabriel | Loiacono | 2006-7 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888 |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
| Mazie | Harris | 2012-13 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884 |
| Howard | Chudacoff | 2000-1 | Brown University | professor | Peterson | Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880 |
| Rachel | Lin | 2002-3 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807 |
| Philip | Gould | 1999-00 | Brown University | assistant professor | NEMLA | A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830 |
| 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 |
| Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
| Michael | Vorenberg | 2002-3 | Brown University | assistant professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| 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 |
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | TRUE | "Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Renee | Sentilles | 2003-4 | Case Western Reserve University | assistant professor | Peterson | Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | TRUE | "Letter and Spirit" |
| Jack | Larkin | 2011-12 | Clark University | affiliate professor | TRUE | David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865 |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
| Graham | Hodges | 1999-00 | Colgate University | professor | Peterson | David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom |
