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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
J. Gary	Williams	1983-84	University of Idaho	associate professor	Haven	James Fenimore Cooper's Notions of the Americans
Kriota	Willberg	2006	New York, NY	Choreographer	Hearst	Updated version for a performance of The Black Crook
Steven	Wilf	1988-89	Yale University	PhD candidate	Hiatt	Public Executions and the Rituals of Order in the Late 18th Century
Ellen	Wiener	2002	Princeton	visiting assistant professor	Hearst	A new 'Book of Hours' using imagery from nineteenth century sources
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Shane	White	1990-91	University of Sydney	lecturer	Peterson	Black Festivals in the United States, 1750-1860
Rachel	Wheeler	1996-97	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Forgotten Conversation: The Indian European Negotiation of Religion in the Eighteenth Century Northeast
Karen	Weyler	1995-96	UNC, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Botein	Issues of Privacy and Publicity in the Early American Novel
Daniel	Wewers	2005-6	Harvard University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
Charles	Wetherell	1978-79	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Daniels	A Social History of the Early American Press
Ellen	Westbrook	1992-93	Southern Mississippi University	assistant professor	Peterson	Cultural Captives: Euro Amer Indian Literary Landscapes
Michael	West	1985-86	University of Pittsburgh	professor	Peterson	Thoreau and the Search for the language of Nature, 1690-1865'
Carola	Wessel	2002-3	University of Goettingen	research librarian	University of Goettingen	Bibliography and Editions of German Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700-1830
Aubrey	Wertheim	1996	Oberlin, Ohio	playwright	Artist	A Full Length One Woman Show about Fanny Fern, the First Female American Columnist
Holly	Wendt	2014	Casper, WY	novelist	Baron	research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716
Barbara	Weisberg	1998	New York, NY	writer and producer	Artist	Research for a non-fiction children's book about the Fox sisters
David	Weir	1984-85	Princeton University	PhD candidate	Hiatt	The Convenant in New England, 1620-80
Adrian	Weimer	2017-18	Providence College	associate professor of history	AAS-NEH	Godly Petitions: Puritanism and the Crisis of the Restoration in America
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Courtney	Weikle-Mills	2008-9	University of Pittsburgh	assistant professor	Reese	"Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852."
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
Sarah	Weicksel	2013-14	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Joanne	Wegner	2014-15	University of Minnesota	Ph.D. Candidate in History	Peterson	Captive Economies: Commodified Bodies in Colonial New England, 1630-1763
Peter	Way	1988-89	University of Maryland	PhD candidate	Hiatt	Rough Labor: The Digging of North America's Canals, 1780-1860
Patricia	Watson	1984-85	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Hiatt	Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England
Jordan	Watkins	2015-16	Utah Valley University	adjunct	Peterson	'Another Attucks': The African-American Response to Dred Scott
Wendy	Warren	2005-6	Yale University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700
Michael	Warner	1986-87	Northwestern University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	The Letters of the Republic
William	Ward	1987-88	University of Durham	professor emeritus	Peterson	An International History ofthe Great Awakening
Megan	Walsh	2013-14	St. Bonaventure University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Broadview Editon of Frank J. Webb's 'The Garies and Their Friends'
Altina	Waller	2001-2	University of Connecticut	professor	AAS-NEH	Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America
Nicole	Waller	2007-8	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz)	junior professor	Ebeling	American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World
Kathleen	Walkup	2014-15	Mills College	Professor of Book Arts	Botein	Printing at the Margins
Jeffrey	Walker	1992-93	Oklahoma State University	associate professor	ASECS	Collegiate Literary Culture in Eighteenth-Century America
Rachel	Walker	2015-16	University of Maryland	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Beautiful Mind: Reading Faces in the Ango-Atlantic World, 1760-1860
Kent	Walgren	1995-96	Salt Lake City, Utah	Assistant Attorney General	Peterson	Bibliography of American Masonic and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850
David	Waldstreicher	1992-93	Yale	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Nationalism and Celebration in Post-Revolutionary America, 1780-1836
William	Wagner	2006-7	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Legacy	Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Leonard	von Morze	2015-16	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Reese	Contextualizing Christian Jacob Hutter: German-American Printing and Book Distribution in the Atlantic World
Albert	von Frank	1995-96	Washington State University, Pullman	professor	Peterson	Anthony Burns, Fugitive Slave
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Christa	Vogelius	2015-16	University of Copenhagen	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Kerstin	Vogel	2005-6	University of Mainz	instructor	Ebeling	Looking-Glass Legacies—The Writings of William Apess
Maris	Vinovskis	1973-74	University of Michigan	associate professor	Rockefeller	Changes in Family Values and Demographic Behavior and the Urban and Industrial Development of Massachusetts, 1770-1860
Perry	Viles	1972-73	Lyndon State College	assistant professor	US Steel	Adolescence in America since 1790
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Alden	Vaughan	1982-83	Columbia University	professor	AAS-NEH	Indians and Europeans in British North America
Alden	Vaughan	1985-86	Columbia University	professor	RA	Indians and Europeans in British North America.
Alden	Vaughan	1986-87	Columbia University	professor	RA	Indians and Europeans in British North America..

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