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
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."
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Alexandra	Socarides	2012-13	University of Missouri	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Mitchell	Snay	2000-1	Denison University	associate professor	Tracy	A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
Matthew	Sivils	2012-13	Iowa State University	assistant professor	Schiller	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Kelly	Sisson	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	"King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936."
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Michael	Simoncelli	1999-00	College of William and Mary	PhD candidate	Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan	Becoming Northern: The Clash of Regional Cultures and the Creation of a Northern Identity in Ohio, 1770-1877
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
David	Silverman	2005-6	George Washington University	assistant professor	ASECS	Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
Mary Beth	Sievens	2009-10	SUNY Fredonia	associate professor	TRUE	The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
Nancy	Siegel	2008-9	Juniata College	assistant professor	Last	"Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints."
James	Sidbury	2002-3	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow	Conceptions of Africa in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830
Nancy	Shoemaker	2006-7	University of Connecticut	professor	AAS-NEH	The Whaling History of New England Indians
Tanya	Sheehan	2009-10	Rutgers University	assistant professor	TRUE	Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Jonathan	Senchyne	2009-10	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Bottles of Ink, and Reams of Paper': Racial Mixture and Legibility in Antebellum Illustration
James	Secord	2004-5	University of Cambridge	professor	Botein	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Beth	Schweiger	2008-9	University of Arkansas	associate professor	TRUE	"Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Martha	Schoolman	2006-7	Miami University	assistant professor	Peterson	American Abolitionist Geographies
Laura	Schiavo	1999-00	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class
Jonathan	Sassi	1999-00	College of Staten Island/CUNY	assistant professor	ASECS	Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere
Lily	Santoro	2007-8	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic"
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
Aaron	Sachs	2007-8	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century"
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Edward	Rugemer	2006-7	Boston College	postdoctoral fellow	Tracy	The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery
Patricia	Roylance	2008-9	Syracuse University	assistant professor	Last	"Eclipse of Empire."
Joshua	Rothman	2005-6	University of Alabama	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Sarah	Roth	2000-1	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture
Kelly	Ross	2009-10	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Martha	Rojas	2004-5	Sweet Briar College		AAS-NEH	"Diplomatic Letters"
Martha	Rojas	2003-4	Stanford University	PhD candidate	NEMLA	Diplomatic Letters
Seth	Rockman	2006-7	Brown University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy
Ethan	Robey	2002-3	State University of New York at Binghamton	independent scholar	American Historical Print Collectors	The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Stacey	Robertson	2007-8	Bradley University	associate professor	Tracy	"'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest"
Wendy	Roberts	2009-10	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America
Kyle	Roberts	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	PhD. Candidate	Reese	Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860
Liam	Riordan	1999-00	University of Maine	assistant professor	Tracy	Newspapers and the Local Meaning of the Nation in the Delaware Valley
Eliza	Richards	2002-3	Boston University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America

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