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
Elisa	Tamarkin	2002-3	University of California, Santa Barbara	assistant professor	Sigety Family	American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	TRUE	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
Jonathan	Sassi	1999-00	College of Staten Island/CUNY	assistant professor	ASECS	Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere
Lisa	Tetrault	2007-8	Carnegie Mellon University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895"
Katja	Kanzler	2006-7	Leipzig University	associate lecturer	Ebeling	Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing
Jonathan	Den Hartog	2012-13	Northwestern College	associate professor	AHPCS	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Helene	Quanquin	2009-10	University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle	associate professor	Peterson	'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Daniel	Cohen	2007-8	Case Western Reserve University	associate professor	TRUE	"Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America"
Adam	Nelson	2008-9	University of Wisconsin, Madison	associate professor	TRUE	"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University"
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Mitchell	Snay	2000-1	Denison University	associate professor	Tracy	A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Sean	Kelley	2008-9	Hartwick College	associate professor	TRUE	"Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora"
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Thomas	Brown	2003-4	University of South Carolina	associate professor	Peterson	The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
April	Masten	2008-9	State University of New York, Stony Brook	associate professor	Peterson	"The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture."
David	Anthony	2012-13	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	TRUE	The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
Nancy	Isenberg	2007-8	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	"Dirty Politics in Early America"
Lynn	Casmier-Paz	2009-10	University of Central Florida	associate professor	Botein	Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education
James	Sidbury	2002-3	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow	Conceptions of Africa in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830
Mary Beth	Sievens	2009-10	SUNY Fredonia	associate professor	TRUE	The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
Cornelia	Dayton	2004-5	University of Connecticut	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Self and Sanity in Early New England"
Laura	Murray	2010-11	Queen's University	associate professor	Tracy	What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies
Jeannine	DeLombard	2007-8	University of Toronto	associate professor	TRUE	"Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War"
Carrie	Bramen	2009-10	SUNY Buffalo	associate professor	NEMLA	American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Meredith	McGill	2003-4	Rutgers University	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral	Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States
Sarah	Purcell	2007-8	Grinnell College	associate professor	Peterson	"The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War"
Steven	Deyle	2009-10	University of Houston	associate professor	Tracy	Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan
Maurizio	Valsania	2007-8	University of Torino, Italy	associate professor		"The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828"
Elizabeth	Petrino	2007-8	Fairfield University	associate professor	Reese	"'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian"
David	Hancock	2003-4	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	associate professor	ASECS	Oceans of Wine, Empires of Commerce: Madeira Wine and the Self-Organization of the Atlantic Market Economy, 1640-1815
Wendy	Bellion	2011-12	University of Delaware	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory
Nian-Sheng	Huang	2005-6	California State University Channel Islands	associate professor	Peterson	The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
Neil	Kamil	2012-13	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	TRUE	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Glenn	Hendler	2002-3	University of Notre Dame	associate professor	Northeast Modern Language Association	Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	TRUE	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Anthony	Szczesiul	2005-6	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	associate professor	Peterson	Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
Ellen	Garvey	2008-9	New Jersey City University	associate professor	Peterson	"Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture."
Jeffrey	Pasley	2004-5	University of Missouri - Columbia	associate professor	ASECS	"Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828"
David	Narrett	2001-2	University of Texas at Arlington	associate professor	ASECS	Borderland Republics: Vermont, West Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union, 1760-1846
Beth	Schweiger	2008-9	University of Arkansas	associate professor	TRUE	"Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Hilary	Wyss	2006-7	Auburn University	associate professor	ASECS	Native Literacy and Education in Early America

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