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
Cam	Terwilliger	2011	Somerville, MA	fiction writer	Baron	research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Alan	Taylor	2000-1	University of California, Davis	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution
Elisa	Tamarkin	2002-3	University of California, Santa Barbara	assistant professor	Sigety Family	American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865
Anthony	Szczesiul	2005-6	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	associate professor	Peterson	Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
Joseph	Stubenrauch	2008-9	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Last	"Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution."
Robert	Strong	2009	Canton, NY	poet	Hearst	research for book-length work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War title "Bright Advent"
Eric	Stoykovich	2006-7	University of Virginia, Charlottesville	PhD candidate	Peterson	Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
David	Stewart	1999-00	National Central University, Taiwan	assistant professor	NEMLA	George Thompson and Men's Reading
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Louise	Stevenson	2000-1	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Arden	Stern	2009-10	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
Sarah	Stern	2014	Red Hook, NY	playwright	Hearst	research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
Allison	Stagg	2009-10	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
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."
Stephanie	Solomon	2010	Hermosa Beach, CA	performer	Jay and Deborah Last	research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution"
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	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
Sara	Smith	2015	Greenfield, MA	choreographer	Baron	research for a movement-theatre piece about the life and work of a fictional 19th century geologist and prophet
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	2001-2	Princeton University	Ph.D.	Hench	Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871
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	AAS-NEH	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	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	AAS-NEH	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
Renée	Sentilles	1998-9	College of William and Mary		Hench	Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey
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
Jonathan	Senchyne	2013-14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Our Paper Allegories: A Sense for the Material Text in Antebellum American Literature
James	Secord	2004-5	University of Cambridge	professor	Botein	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
Beth	Schweiger	2008-9	University of Arkansas	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Martha	Schoolman	2006-7	Miami University	assistant professor	Peterson	American Abolitionist Geographies
Jeanne	Schinto	2015	Andover, MA	non-fiction writer and journalist	Baron	research for 3-part series about the Walpole Society

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