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
Daegan	Miller	2010-11	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Christopher	Oliver	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
Aston	Gonzalez	2011-12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
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
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Jeffrey	Groves	2011-12	Harvey Mudd College	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Amber	LaPiana	2011-12	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Mapping Literary Regionalism
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
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
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
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
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
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
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Maura	D'Amore	2007-8	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Drawn to Art	"Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
April	Masten	2001-2		visiting assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	The Work of Art
Kathleen	Lawrence	2004-5	Boston University	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism"
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in 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
Sarah	Roth	2000-1	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Melanie	Hernandez	2012-13	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
Kristina	Hinz-Bode	2006-7	University of Kassel	assistant professor	Ebeling	America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature
Katja	Kanzler	2006-7	Leipzig University	associate lecturer	Ebeling	Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing
first	last	2005-6	institution	rank	fellowship	title
Daniel	Mandell	2002-3	Truman State University	assistant professor	Joyce Tracy	Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880.
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Sargent	Bush Jr.	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice
Thomas	Coens	2002-3	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
Brandon	Johnson	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
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
Honor	Sachs	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Christopher	Phillips	2012-13	Lafayette College	assistant professor	Lapides	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Angela	George	2007-8	University of Maryland	PhD candidate	Last	"The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893"
Lisa	Gitelman	2007-8	Catholic University	associate professor	Last	"Early Photographs of Words Backwards"
Jennifer	Hughes	2007-8	Emory University	PhD candidate	Last	"Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900"
Patricia	Johnston	2007-8	Salem State College	professor	Last	"Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants"
Robin	Bernstein	2008-9	Harvard University	assistant professor	Last	"Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930."
Michael	Komanecky	2007-8	independent scholar		Last	"Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions"

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