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
Martha	Rojas	2003-4	Stanford University	PhD candidate	NEMLA	Diplomatic Letters
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Jill	Anderson	2003-4	Thomas Jefferson Foundation	assistant editor	Peterson	"Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
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
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Shelby	Balik	2003-4	University of Wisconsin - Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Religious Frontier
Michael	Everton	2003-4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Reese	Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Rebecca	McNulty	2003-4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
Thomas	Brown	2003-4	University of South Carolina	associate professor	Peterson	The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
Faye	Dudden	2003-4	Colgate University	professor	Tracy	The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870
Thomas	Augst	2004-5	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Peterson	"The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship"
Jeffrey	Pasley	2004-5	University of Missouri - Columbia	associate professor	ASECS	"Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828"
Katherine	McCaffrey	2004-5	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril"
Cornelia	Dayton	2004-5	University of Connecticut	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Self and Sanity in Early New England"
Lynne	Bassett	2004-5		independent scholar	Peterson	"American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production"
James	Secord	2004-5	University of Cambridge	professor	Botein	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
Christopher	Phillips	2004-5	University of Cincinnati	associate professor	Peterson	"South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border"
Christopher	Lukasik	2004-5	Boston University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	"Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850"
Phyllis	Cole	2004-5	Penn State Delaware County	professor	Peterson	"Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America"
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Ilyon	Woo	2004-5	Columbia University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Mother against Mother"
Martha	McNamara	2004-5	University of Maine	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850"
David	Gellman	2004-5	DePauw University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom"
Kathleen	Lawrence	2004-5	Boston University	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism"
Hester	Blum	2004-5	Penn State University	assistant professor	Reese	"The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination"
Martha	Rojas	2004-5	Sweet Briar College		AAS-NEH	"Diplomatic Letters"
Vicki	Hsueh	2004-5	Western Washington University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690"
Robb	Haberman	2004-5	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	Legacy	"Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America"
Peter	Baldwin	2004-5	University of Connecticut	assistant professor	Tracy	"American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930"
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Angela	Hudson	2004-5	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s"
Jennifer	Anderson	2004-5	New York University	Ph.D.	Peterson	"Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century"
Sara	Fanning	2004-5	University of Texas at Austin	Ph.D. candidate	Tracy	"The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830"
Katherine	Hijar	2004-5	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate	AHPCS	"Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880"
Peter	Leavenworth	2004-5	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic"
Kathryn	Koo	2005-6	Saint Mary's College of California	assistant professor	Peterson	In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery
Kenneth	Banks	2005-6	University of North Carolina, Asheville	visiting assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
Lydia	Fisher	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	lecturer	NEMLA	Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation
Wendy	Woloson	2005-6	Library Company of Philadelphia	curator	Peterson	Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Michael	Carter	2005-6	University of Southern California	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839
Jennifer	Manion	2005-6	Rutgers University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835
Patricia	Crain	2005-6	University of Minnesota	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Maria	Bollettino	2005-6	University of Texas at Austin	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
Kyle	Roberts	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	PhD. Candidate	Reese	Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860
Coleman	Hutchison	2005-6	Northwestern University	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Occasioning Verse and Volume
Marina	Moskowitz	2005-6	University of Glasgow	assistant professor	Peterson	Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America

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