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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret | Abruzzo | 2013-14 | University of Alabama | associate professor | Lapides | Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin and Moral Responsibility |
| Gretchen | Adams | 2000-1 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Specter of Salem in American Culture |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | lecturer | AAS-NEH | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Eric | Altice | 2000-1 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Reese | Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| 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 |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2006-7 | New York University | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825 |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Zara | Anishanslin | 2013-14 | College of Staten Island | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution |
| David | Anthony | 2000-1 | Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | White-Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America |
| David | Anthony | 2012-13 | SIU Carbondale | associate professor | AAS-NEH | The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture |
| David | Anthony | 2005-6 | SIU Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism |
| Christopher | Apap | 2012-13 | Oakland University | special lecturer | Peterson | The Genius of the Place |
| Sarah | Arndt | 2010-11 | Trinity College, University of Dublin | PhD candidate | Reese | The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825 |
| Thomas | Augst | 1999-00 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Reese | Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture |
| Thomas | Augst | 2013-14 | New York University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | A Drunkard's Story: Social reform and mass culture in nineteenth-century America |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| Matthew | Bahar | 2010-11 | University of Oklahoma | PhD candidate | Legacy | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| Meredith | Bak | 2010-11 | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture |
| Anne | Baker | 1999-00 | Reed College | visiting assistant professor | Botein | Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States |
| Peter | Baldwin | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Tracy | "American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930" |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| 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 |
| Faith | Barrett | 2006-7 | Lawrence University | assistant professor | Botein | 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War |
| 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 |
| Faith | Barrett | 2013-14 | Lawrence University | associate professor | Botein | Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Nicolas | Barreyre | 2011-12 | University Paris Ouest Nanterre | assistant professor | Tracy | Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| Marilyn | Baseler | 1999-00 | University of Texas at Austin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Strangers within our gates': America's Immigrants, 1776-1820 |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| 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 |
| Richard | Bell | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States |
| Richard | Bell | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830 |
| Richard | Bell | 2012-13 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | Peterson | The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade |
| 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 |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
| Richard | Boles | 2013-14 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850 |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2013-14 | Framingham State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War |
| Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
| Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
| Nancy | Bowen | 2012 | Brooklyn, NY | artist, mixed media | Jay and Deborah Last | research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" |
| Carrie | Bramen | 2009-10 | SUNY Buffalo | associate professor | NEMLA | American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
