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.
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Date | Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Harry | Williams | 1985-86 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Haven | Charles Lenox Remond and the Community of Female Abolitionists |
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 | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England |
Adrian | Weimer | 2017-18 | Providence College | associate professor of history | AAS-NEH | Godly Petitions: Puritanism and the Crisis of the Restoration in America |
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' |
Nicole | Waller | 2007-8 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz) | junior professor | Ebeling | American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World |
Altina | Waller | 2001-2 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America |
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 | 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.. |
Alden | Vaughan | 1982-83 | Columbia University | professor | AAS-NEH | Indians and Europeans in British North America |