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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldrid | Herrington | 2003-4 | University College, Dublin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation |
| Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
| 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 |
| Katherine | Preston | 2003-4 | College of William & Mary | associate professor | Peterson | Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America |
| Leon | Jackson | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | assistant professor | Peterson | The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s |
| Erika | Gasser | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1600-1700 |
| Meredith | McGill | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | associate professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States |
| Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
| Michael | Jarvis | 2003-4 | University of Rochester | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | 'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815 |
| Ellen | Gilbert | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | independent scholar | Peterson | St. Wulstan Society Papers |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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" | |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| David | Anthony | 2005-6 | SIU Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism |
| Matthew | Wittmann | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century |
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| 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 |
