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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared | Gardner | 2000-1 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature |
| Karin | Wulf | 2000-1 | American University | assistant professor | ASECS | In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America |
| Jonathan | Sassi | 1999-00 | College of Staten Island/CUNY | assistant professor | ASECS | Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere |
| Anne | Baker | 1999-00 | Reed College | visiting assistant professor | Botein | Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States |
| Mark | Peterson | 1999-00 | University of Iowa | assistant professor | Botein | The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Lara | Cohen | 2008-9 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Botein | "Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature." |
| Betsy | Klimasmith | 2008-9 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Botein | "Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction." |
| Faith | Barrett | 2006-7 | Lawrence University | assistant professor | Botein | 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
| Michael | Carter | 2005-6 | University of Southern California | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839 |
| Mark | Mattes | 2009-10 | University of Iowa | PhD candidate | Botein | Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings |
| Coleman | Hutchison | 2005-6 | Northwestern University | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Occasioning Verse and Volume |
| Caitlin | Rosenthal | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America |
| T.J. | Tomlin | 2010-11 | University of Northern Colorado | assistant professor | Botein | A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820 |
| J. Brenton | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | PhD candidate | Botein | Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia |
| James | Secord | 2004-5 | University of Cambridge | professor | Botein | "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" |
| Cynthia | Van Zandt | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | Botein | Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America |
| Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2004-5 | Rutgers University | Ph.D. candidate | Botein | "Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project" |
| Kristen | Highland | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Botein | At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city |
| Richard | Bell | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830 |
| Scott | McLaren | 2012-13 | York University | associate professor | Botein | Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850 |
| Susan | Parrish | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | assistant professor | Botein | Colonial and Early National American Almanac |
| Louise | Stevenson | 2000-1 | Franklin and Marshall College | professor | Botein | Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820 |
| Richard | Stillson | 2000-1 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush |
| Dominique | Zino | 2011-12 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James |
| Mairin | Odle | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830 |
| 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 |
| Brian | Valencia | 2012-13 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque |
| Radiclani | Clytus | 2009-10 | Tufts University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual |
| Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
| Nenette | Luarca-Shoaf | 2009-10 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2009-10 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860 |
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| Jennifer | Pierce | 2009-10 | The University of Iowa | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jessica | Collier | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
| Wendy | Bellion | 2011-12 | University of Delaware | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| Kerin | Holt | 2010-11 | Utah State University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S. |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| 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 |
| Alison | Klaum | 2010-11 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
