NavigationDirectory 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 | Date |
Institution |
Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin | Pope | 2016-17 | Beloit College | visiting assistant professor of history | Legacy | Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: How Slave Rebellion Transformed the Atlantic World |
| Sean | Hill | 2010 | Bemidji, MN | poet | Hearst | research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s |
| Barbara | Hochman | 2001-2 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | senior lecturer | NEMLA | Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution |
| Katrina | Browne | 2000 | Berkeley, California | documentary filmmaker | Hearst | Trace of the Trade research the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England |
| Andrew | Fagal | 2013-14 | Binghamton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic |
| Richard | Simmons | 1982-83 | Birmingham College | reader | Boni | British Imprints Relating to North America, 1621-1760 |
| Cornelia | Nixon | 1998 | Bloomington, Indiana | novelist | Artist | Research for a novel, Martha's Version |
| Woody | Holton | 1999-00 | Bloomsburg University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Republics of Hope and the Empire of Despair: A Social Interpretation of the United States Constitution |
| Samantha | Harvey | 2017-18 | Boise State University | professor of English | AAS-NEH | Reading the Book of Nature: Imagination, Observation, and Conservation in Transatlantic Romanticism |
| Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Eliza | Richards | 2002-3 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| David | Hall | 1981-82 | Boston University | professor | AAS-NEH | History of Popular Culture in Colonial New England |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Mary | McCarl | 1987-88 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | More Confessions of Thomas Shepard's Cambridge Parishioners, 1648-49 |
| Reed | Gochberg | 2016-17 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Packer | Novel Objects: Museums and Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2004-5 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850" |
| Ross | Barrett | 2005-6 | Boston University | PhD. Candidate | Drawn to Art | Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture |
| Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
| Joseph | Rezek | 2015-16 | Boston University | assistant professor | Botein | Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture |
| Kathleen | Lawrence | 2004-5 | Boston University | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism" |
| Telesia | Lett | 2016-17 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | Making Money: Alfred Jones and the Business of Engraving |
| James | Henretta | 1984-85 | Boston University | professor | AAS-NEH | Law and the Creation of the Liberal State in America, 1770-1870 |
| Alan | Taylor | 1989-90 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | William Cooper's Town |
| Alan | Taylor | 1989-90 | Boston University | assistant professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (US and Canada) to the Wake of the American Revolution |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2003-4 | Boston University | assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850 |
| Lisa | Hayes | 2011 | Bowie, MD | playwright | Baron | research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2003-4 | Brandeis | Ph.D. | Hench | A Page, A Day: A History of the Diary in America |
| Eleanor | McConnell | 2006-07 | Brandeis | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | A Scarce Plenty: Economics, Citizenship, and Opportunity in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1760-1820 |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Matthew | Hale | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Joanna | Frang | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Last | "Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830" |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Lincoln | Mullen | 2013-14 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Varieties of Religious Conversion |
| Gabriel | Loiacono | 2006-7 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888 |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Abigail | Cooper | 2016-17 | Brandeis University | assistant professor of history | AAS-NEH | ‘Lord, Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War |
| Richard | Rath | 1997-98 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Peterson | North American Soundways, 1600-1800 |
| Grantland | Rice | 1993-94 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Botein | The Transformation of Authorship in Early America |
| Deborah | DeFord | 1996 | Branford, Connecticut | writer | Artist | Young Adult Novel about the Female American Revolutionary Soldier Deborah Sampson Gannett |
| Charles | Fanning | 1981-82 | Bridgewater State University | associate professor | Daniels | The Irish Voice in America: Nineteenth-Century Fiction |
| Barbara | Wojtusik | 1993-94 | Bristol, CT, Eastern High School | teacher | Peterson | The Somers Mutiny |
| Arielle | Ballard | 2017 | Brockton, Massachusetts | Poet | Hearst | Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry |
