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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| Brian | Valencia | 2012-13 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque |
| Christine | DeLucia | 2011-12 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78) |
| Holly | Heinzer | 2000-1 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850 |
| Andrew | Lewis | 2000-1 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Antiques of State: Archaeology in Early Republican America |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
| 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 |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| JoAnne | Thomas | 2000-1 | Western Michigan University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War |
| Timothy | Marr | 1999-00 | Western Connecticut State University | assistant professor | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville |
| Brian | Luskey | 2012-13 | West Virginia University | assistant professor | Tracy | Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century |
| Matthew | Garrett | 2011-12 | Wesleyan University | assistant professor | NEMLA | Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic |
| Stephen | Marini | 2007-8 | Wellesley College | professor | TRUE | "Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America" |
| Lara | Cohen | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | TRUE | Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures |
| Lara | Cohen | 2008-9 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Botein | "Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature." |
| John | Leary | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination |
| Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
| Rafia | Zafar | 1999-00 | Washington University | associate professor | Peterson | And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American |
| Amber | LaPiana | 2011-12 | Washington State University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Mapping Literary Regionalism |
| Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
| Kerin | Holt | 2010-11 | Utah State University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S. |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2009-10 | University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle | associate professor | Peterson | 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890 |
| Nicolas | Barreyre | 2011-12 | University Paris Ouest Nanterre | assistant professor | Tracy | Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| J. Brenton | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | PhD candidate | Botein | Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia |
| Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | TRUE | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
| Joseph | Cullon | 2000-1 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Work of Many Hands: Ships and the Economic Culture of Early New England |
| Honor | Sachs | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Melanie | Hernandez | 2012-13 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire |
| Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
| Eric | Stoykovich | 2006-7 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville | PhD candidate | Peterson | Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876 |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2009-10 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860 |
| Christopher | Oliver | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870 |
| Sarah | Roth | 2000-1 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture |
| Joanne | van der Woude | 2006-7 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Reese | Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century |
| Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
| 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)." |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| 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 |
| John | Coward | 2010-11 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | AHPC | Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | "Dirty Politics in Early America" |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2003-4 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2007-8 | University of Toronto | associate professor | TRUE | "Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War" |
| Alpen | Razi | 2012-13 | University of Toronto | PhD candidate | Legacy | Colored Citizens of the World |
| Maurizio | Valsania | 2007-8 | University of Torino, Italy | associate professor | "The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828" |
