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
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
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
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
Patricia	Pender	2013-14	University of Newcastle	associate professor	Reese	Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867
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"
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
Peter	Leavenworth	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Christopher	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
Jessica	Lepler	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Hench	1837: Anatomy of a Panic
Edward	Andrews	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775"
Cynthia	Van Zandt	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Botein	Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America
Kate	Larson	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Legacy	Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Wendy	Katz	2008-9	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Last	"The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862."
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Jeffrey	Pasley	2004-5	University of Missouri - Columbia	associate professor	ASECS	"Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828"
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
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Patricia	Crain	2005-6	University of Minnesota	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Thomas	Augst	1999-00	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Reese	Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture
Susan	Graham	2005-6	University of Minnesota	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship
Thomas	Augst	2004-5	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Peterson	"The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship"
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
John	Howe	2002-3	University of Minnesota	professor emeritus	ASECS	The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
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
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
Mary	Kelley	2013-14	University of Michigan	Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	'What Are You Reading, What Are You Saying?’ American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860
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
Kelly	Sisson	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	"King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936."
Sara	Lampert	2010-11	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
Sarah	Gould	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Last	"Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games."
Sara	Babcox	2005-6	University of Michigan	PhD. Candidate	Legacy	The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America
Susan	Parrish	2003-4	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Botein	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
Jeffrey	Kaja	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	"From Rivers to Roads: Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800."
Matthew	Wittmann	2005-6	University of Michigan	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century
Betsy	Klimasmith	2008-9	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Botein	"Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction."
Anthony	Szczesiul	2005-6	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	associate professor	Peterson	Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
Emahunn	Campbell	2013-14	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Construction of the Black Criminal
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Lindsay	DiCuirci	2013-14	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Botein	History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855
Richard	Bell	2007-8	University of Maryland	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States
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"
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Sally	Promey	2001-2	University of Maryland	professor	AHPCS	Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief

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