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
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Linford	Fisher	2007-8	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775"
Catherine	Corman	2000-1	Harvard University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Daniel	Wewers	2005-6	Harvard University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
John	Huffman	2009-10	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Documents of Identity in the Early Republic
Thomas	Coens	2002-3	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
Sarah	Carter	2007-8	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Last	"Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America"
Robin	Bernstein	2008-9	Harvard University	assistant professor	Last	"Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930."
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
Melissa	Homestead	2000-1	Huntingdon College	visiting assistant professor	Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow	Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property
Catherine	Parisian	2008-9	independent scholar		Reese	"A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney."
Michael	Komanecky	2007-8	independent scholar		Last	"Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions"
Joseph	Stubenrauch	2008-9	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Last	"Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution."
William	van Arragon	2000-1	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
first	last	2005-6	institution	rank	fellowship	title
Matthew	Sivils	2012-13	Iowa State University	assistant professor	Schiller	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Nicholas	Wrightson	2006-7	Jesus College, Oxford University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	"Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65"
Daniel	Kilbride	2007-8	John Carroll University	associate professor	Peterson	"The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870"
Katherine	Hijar	2004-5	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate	AHPCS	"Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880"
Amanda	Bilby	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families"
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Claire	Gherini	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Krystyn	Moon	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920
Patrick	Luck	2012-13	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	TRUE	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Nancy	Siegel	2008-9	Juniata College	assistant professor	Last	"Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints."
Christopher	Phillips	2012-13	Lafayette College	assistant professor	Lapides	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Faith	Barrett	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Katja	Kanzler	2006-7	Leipzig University	associate lecturer	Ebeling	Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing
Wendy	Woloson	2005-6	Library Company of Philadelphia	curator	Peterson	Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Albrecht	Koschnik	2009-10	Library Company of Philadelphia	fellow	ASECS	American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Martha	Schoolman	2006-7	Miami University	assistant professor	Peterson	American Abolitionist Geographies
Lloyd	Pratt	2008-9	Michigan State University	assistant professor	NEMLA	"The Freedoms of a Stranger, 1830-1860."
Lloyd	Pratt	2009-10	Michigan State University	assistant professor	TRUE	The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860
Joseph	Bonica	2009-10	Middle Tennessee State University	visiting assistant professor	Peterson	Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic
Kathryn	Morse	2007-8	Middlebury College	associate professor	AHPCS	"The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images"
Peter	Messer	2007-8	Mississippi State University	assistant professor	ASECS	"Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America"
Lois	Brown	2000-1	Mount Holyoke College	assistant professor	NEMLA	Made to Sell, Made to Save': The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature
Jessie	Morgan-Owens	2012-13	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	TRUE	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
David	Stewart	1999-00	National Central University, Taiwan	assistant professor	NEMLA	George Thompson and Men's Reading
Ellen	Garvey	2008-9	New Jersey City University	associate professor	Peterson	"Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture."
Natasha	Lightfoot	2006-7	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city

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