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
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	TRUE	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
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
Edward	Andrews	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775"
David	Anthony	2012-13	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	TRUE	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
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
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	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
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	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
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	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Richard	Bell	2007-8	University of Maryland	assistant professor	TRUE	"Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States"
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"
Hester	Blum	2004-5	Penn State University	assistant professor	Reese	"The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination"
Maria	Bollettino	2005-6	University of Texas at Austin	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Slaves and Slavery 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
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
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Thomas	Brown	2003-4	University of South Carolina	associate professor	Peterson	The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
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
Lois	Brown	2000-1	Mount Holyoke College	assistant professor	NEMLA	Made to Sell, Made to Save': The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature
Michelle	Burnham	2011-12	Santa Clara University	professor	ASECS	The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific
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
Gina Marie	Caison	2011-12	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper
Hannah	Carlson	2006-7	Boston University	PhD candidate	Botein	In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
Brian	Carroll	2008-9	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763."

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