NavigationDirectory 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 |
Date | 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 | 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 | AAS-NEH | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Catherine | Albanese | 1983-84 | Wright State | professor | Haven | The Divine Harmonia: Transcendentalism, Popular Religion, and Healing Movements in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Catherine | Albanese | 1977-78 | Wright State | professor | Daniels | Davy Crockett Almanacs |
| Gaylord | Albaugh | 1989-90 | McMaster University | professor | RA | American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830 |
| Gaylord | Albaugh | 1972-73 | McMaster University | professor | U.S. Steel Foundation | American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830 |
| Catherine | Allgor | 1995-96 | Yale | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832 |
| Christopher | Allison | 2017-18 | Harvard University | Ph.D. candidate | Jaffee | Protestant Relics: Encountering and Collecting the Body in Early America, 1770-1850 |
| April | Alliston | 1994-95 | Princeton | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper |
| 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 |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2013-14 | University of South Florida | Assistant Professor of English | Hench | National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860 |
| 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 |
| Anne | Anderson | 2014-15 | Exeter University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | The Morse Collection at the American Antiquarian Society |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Kenneth | Anderson | 1973-74 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | assistant professor | Mellon short-term fellow | Research on the writings of James Fenimore Cooper |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Hannah | Anderson | 2017-18 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | Lived Botany: Domesticity, Settler Colonialism, and Ecological Adaption in Early British North America |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 2005-6 | SIU Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism |
| David | Anthony | 1996-97 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Peterson | Scandalous Aesthetics: Masculine Emotion and the Birth of the Public Sphere in Antebellum America |
| Christopher | Apap | 2012-13 | Oakland University | special lecturer | Peterson | The Genius of the Place |
| Joyce | Appleby | 1994-95 | UCLA | professor | ASECS | The First Generation of Americans |
| Kimberly | Armstrong | 2016-17 | Metropolitan Community College, Omaha | instructor | Reese | ’The Plague is Just as Great Today’: Selling the Subscription Book in Postbellum America |
| 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 |
| Robert | Arner | 1975-76 | Daniels | Comic Literature in Colonial America | ||
| Robert | Arner | 1991-92 | University of Cincinnati | professor | NEMLA | The Politics of Knowledge in the Early Republic: American Encyclopedias from the Federal Period to the Jacksonian Era |
| Marilyn | Arsem | 1997 | Museum of Fine Arts | on faculty | Wallace | Research 19th century Spritualism, as well as late 19th century daily life in New England, for a performance entitled 'Spirit Messages' |
| William | Astore | 1994-95 | Oxford University | PhD candidate | RA | Observing God: Thomas Dick (1774-1857), Religion and Popular Astronomy in Great Britain and America, 1823-57 |
| Elizabeth | Athens | 2014-15 | Yale University | Ph.D. Candidate in Art History | Last | Figuring a World: William Bartram's Natural History |
| 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" |
| Thomas | Augst | 2013-14 | New York University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | A Drunkard's Story: Social reform and mass culture in nineteenth-century America |
| Gillian | Avery | 1985-86 | author | Peterson | The American Pattern of Childhood | |
| Paula | Backscheider | 1987-88 | University of Rochester | associate professor | Peterson | A Biography of Daniel Defoe |
| 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 |
| Jennifer | Baker | 1996-97 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Currency of Words: Finance and Literary Imagination in Early America |
| 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 |
| Arielle | Ballard | 2017 | Brockton, Massachusetts | Poet | Hearst | Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry |
| 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 |
| Lauren | Barbeau | 2014-15 | Washington University in St Louis | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Last | 'Worth of a Happier Domestic Fate': Domesticity as the Property of White Women |
