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 | Date | Institution | Rank |
Fellowship Awarded![]() |
Title of Project |
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Richard | Bell | 2012-13 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | Peterson | The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade |
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" |
Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
Philip | Gura | 1989-90 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | William S. Newman Distinguished Professor | Peterson | The Reverend Nathan Fiske and the Cultural Transformation of Central Massachusetts |
Adrian | Weimer | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England |
Nancy | Siegel | 2017-18 | Towson University | professor | Peterson | Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic |
Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
Jennifer | Wilson | 2009-10 | The Graduate Center, The City University of New York | PhD candidate | Peterson | Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de |
Phyllis | Hunter | 1992-93 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Peterson | Ship of Wealth: New England Merchants, Colonial Capitalism, and the Rhetoric of Money |
Julien | Mauduit | 2011-12 | Universite du Quebec a Montreal | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials |
Ann | Bowden | 1992-93 | University of Texas, Austin | Ransom scholar | Peterson | A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of SirWalter Scott, 1792-1836 |
Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
Sara | Lampert | 2010-11 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry |
Karl | Kroeger | 1987-88 | University of Colorado, Boulder | music librarian | Peterson | The Complete Works of William Billings |
James Rixey | Ruffin | 1998-99 | Delaware | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Religion, 1783-1800 |
Christine | Croxall | 2012-13 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830 |
Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
Philip | Gura | 1998-99 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | William S. Newman Distinguished Professor | Peterson | America's Instrument: The 19th Century Banjo |
Joanne | Passet | 1997-98 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The American Debate on Marriage: Religion, Gender, and Social Radicalism, 1850-00 |
Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
Phillip | Troutman | 1997-98 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Geographies of Family and Market: Enslaved Migration in Antebellum Virginia and Washington, DC |
Todd | Thompson | 2017-18 | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | associate professor | Peterson | Savage Laughter: Nineteenth-Century Humor and the South Seas |
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" |
Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
Aaron | Marrs | 2010-11 | U.S. Department of State | historian | Peterson | Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution |
Carol | Sheriff | 1991-92 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Social and Cultural Impact of the Erie Canal, 1790-1860 |
Myron | Gray | 2012-13 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | French Music in Federal Philadelphia |
Christopher | Clark | 1990-91 | Peterson | To Live in the Common Cause: Communal and Cooperative Groups in Nineteenth-Century America | ||
Jean | Silver-Isenstadt | 1995-96 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pure Pleasure: The Shared Life and Work of Mary S Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols in American Health Reform |
Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
Michael | Clapper | 1992-93 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The `Popular' and `Elite' Disjunction in Art in the United States after the Civil War |
Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
Britt | Rusert | 2011-12 | Temple University | postdoc fellow | Peterson | Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery |
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 |
Randi | Lewis | 2012-13 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819 |
Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
Sally | Hadden | 1994-95 | University of Toledo | associate professor | Peterson | Slave Patrols ofthe Old South and Newspapers as Disseminators of Legal Information |
Carla | Pestana | 1988-89 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | Peterson | Sectarianism in Colonial Massachusetts |
Paula | Backscheider | 1987-88 | University of Rochester | associate professor | Peterson | A Biography of Daniel Defoe |
Timothy | Marr | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Islamic Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century America |
Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
Julie | Winch | 1987-88 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | assistant professor | Peterson | American Free Black and Emigration to Haiti in the 1820's |
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 |
Max | Mishler | 2014-15 | New York University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Boundaries of Freedom: Abolition, Punishment, and the Atlantic Origins of Mass Incarceration |
Janice | Simon | 1993-94 | University of Georgia | assistant professor | Peterson | The Forest Interior in American Painting, 1840-00 |
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 |