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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| 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" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Renee | Sentilles | 2003-4 | Case Western Reserve University | assistant professor | Peterson | Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Brenton | Grom | 2013-14 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840 |
| Holly | Wendt | 2014 | Casper, WY | novelist | Baron | research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716 |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Aimee | Parkison | 2013 | Charlotte, NC | fiction writer | Hearst | research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans |
| Sandra | Jackson-Opoku | 2008 | Chicago, IL | novelist | Hearst | God's Gift to the Natives, novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora |
| Amina | Gautier | 2013 | Chicago, IL | fiction writer | Hearst | research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island |
| Mary Beth | Ellis | 2011 | Cincinnati, OH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Anne | Harley | 2012 | Claremont, CA | musician, soprano | Hearst | research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Letter and Spirit" |
| Jack | Larkin | 2011-12 | Clark University | affiliate professor | AAS-NEH | David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865 |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
| Graham | Hodges | 1999-00 | Colgate University | professor | Peterson | David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom |
| 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 |
| Zara | Anishanslin | 2013-14 | College of Staten Island | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution |
| 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 |
| Renée | Sentilles | 1998-9 | College of William and Mary | Hench | Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey | |
| 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 |
| Melissa | Range | 2013 | Columbia, MO | poet | Baron | research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator" |
| Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | AAS-NEH | Cinderella's Family |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2012-13 | Connecticut College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| 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 |
| Brett | Mizelle | 2013-14 | CSU, Long Beach | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Killing Animals in American History |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| Cindy | Lobel | 2004-5 | CUNY Graduate Center | Ph.D. | Hench | Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1780-1860 |
| 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 |
| Joseph | Cullon | 2005-6 | Dartmouth College | assistant professor | Hench | Colonial Shipwrights and their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early New England |
| 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" |
