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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faye | Dudden | 2003-4 | Colgate University | professor | Tracy | The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870 |
| Vincent | DiGirolamo | 2000-1 | Colgate University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crying the News: Child Street Trading in America, 1830s-1890s |
| Jonathan | Sassi | 1999-00 | College of Staten Island/CUNY | assistant professor | ASECS | Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere |
| Katherine | Preston | 2003-4 | College of William & Mary | associate professor | Peterson | Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America |
| Christopher | Grasso | 1999-00 | College of William and Mary | associate professor | Peterson | Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century |
| Robert | Gross | 2002-3 | College of William and Mary | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Transcendentalist and Their World |
| 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 |
| Ilyon | Woo | 2004-5 | Columbia University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Mother against Mother" |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | TRUE | Cinderella's Family |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2012-13 | Connecticut College | assistant professor | TRUE | Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries |
| Jacqueline | Goldsby | 2000-1 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life |
| Catherine | Haulman | 1999-00 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820 |
| 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 |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| 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 |
| Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
| Mitchell | Snay | 2000-1 | Denison University | associate professor | Tracy | A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| Brian | Luskey | 2003-4 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2009-10 | Florida International University | assistant professor | Peterson | We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840 |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2011-12 | Florida International University | assistant professor | TRUE | We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850 |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| Ann | Johnson | 2002-3 | Fordham University | assistant professor | Stephen Botein | Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field |
| Louise | Stevenson | 2000-1 | Franklin and Marshall College | professor | Botein | Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820 |
| James | Snead | 2009-10 | George Mason University | associate professor | Peterson | The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America |
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| 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 |
| David | Silverman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | associate professor | ASECS | Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America |
| Natalie | Deibel | 2011-12 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 |
| Phillip | Troutman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials |
| Elizabeth | Hawley | 2002-3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD candidate | Reese | American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890 |
| Reiner | Smolinski | 2002-3 | Georgia State University | associate professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana' |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | "The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War" |
| Joycelyn | Moody | 2002-3 | Hamilton College | Chair, Women's Studies | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy |
| Bryan | Curd | 2010-11 | Harrison Middleton University | tutor | Drawn-to-Art | Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850 |
| Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | TRUE | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| Thomas | Coens | 2002-3 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829 |
