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
Lily	Santoro	2007-8	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	"The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic"
Mason	Lowance	1989-90	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	professor	Peterson	Uncle Tom's Cabin and the New England Sermon Tradition
Richard	Rath	1997-98	Brandeis Univesity	PhD candidate	Peterson	North American Soundways, 1600-1800
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
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."
Heidi	Schultz	1995-96	UNC, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women Writing in the American South: Writing at Female Acadmies and Writing Without Teachers, 1800-1860
Catherine	Thompson	2006-7	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850
Jessica	Farrell	2016-17	University of Minnesota	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	(Re)Capturing Empire: A Reconsideration of Liberia’s Precarious Sovereignty and American Empire as Exception in the Nineteenth Century
Kariann	Yokota	1999-00	University of California, Los Angeles	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation, 1789-1830
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
John	Huffman	2009-10	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Documents of Identity in the Early Republic
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Lisa	Tetrault	2007-8	Carnegie Mellon University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895"
Maria	Bollettino	2005-6	University of Texas at Austin	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
James	Raven	1986-87	Pembroke College, Cambridge	fellow	Peterson	The Economics of Bookselling in Britian 1700-1800; Print and Trade in Eighteenth-Century Britiain
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
Harvey	Green	1997-98	Northeastern University	professor	Peterson	Myth and History in American Literary and Material Culture, 1850-10
April	Masten	2008-9	State University of New York, Stony Brook	associate professor	Peterson	"The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture."
Anne	McLucas	1985-86	Harvard University	associate professor	Peterson	The Connection Between American Folk Song and Theatre
Lydia	Schurman	1988-89	Northern Virginia Community College	professor	Peterson	Publishers, Publications, and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World, 1860-15
Kirsten	Fischer	2016-17	University of Minnesota	associate professor of history	Peterson	Vitalism in America: Elihu Palmer’s Radical Religion in the Early Republic
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Christine	Croxall	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
Carrie	Hyde	2009-10	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868
Mary Beth	Norton	1984-85	Cornell University	professor	Peterson	Gender in Seventeenth-Century America
Carol	Faulkner	2014-15	Syracuse University	Associate Professor of History	Peterson	The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael	Carlebach	1986-87	University of Miami	assistant professor	Peterson	The Origins of Photojournalism in America, 1839-80
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Susan	Graham	2005-6	University of Minnesota	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship
James	Raven	1994-95	Magdalene College, Cambridge	fellow; director	Peterson	The Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth Century
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
Tanya	Mears	2008-9	Norfolk State University	assistant professor	Peterson	"'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent."
Richard	Schwarzlose	1984-85	Northwestern University	associate professor	Peterson	The Origins of the Newspaper Press
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Jeffrey	Malanson	2009-10	Boston College	PhD candidate	Peterson	Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852
Michael	West	1985-86	University of Pittsburgh	professor	Peterson	Thoreau and the Search for the language of Nature, 1690-1865'
Christopher	Florio	2014-15	Princeton University	Ph.D. Candidate in History	Peterson	The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1877
Bret	Carroll	1997-98	University of Texas, Arlington	visiting assistant professor	Peterson	Religion and Masculinity in Antebellum America
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
Timothy	Helwig	2005-6	University of Maryland	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Jane	Merritt	2008-9	Old Dominion University	associate professor	Peterson	"The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."
Leon	Jackson	2003-4	University of South Carolina	assistant professor	Peterson	The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s
Rebecca	Tannenbaum	1994-95	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Woman's Calling: Women's Medical Practice in Early New England
Sueanna	Smith	2015-16	University of South Carolina	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Cultural Work of the Early American Fraternla Sphere
Angela Pulley	Hudson	2016-17	Texas A&M University	associate professor of history	Peterson	Indian Doctresses in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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
Yvette	Piggush	2009-10	Florida International University	assistant professor	Peterson	We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840
Ellen	Westbrook	1992-93	Southern Mississippi University	assistant professor	Peterson	Cultural Captives: Euro Amer Indian Literary Landscapes
Jean	O'Brien-Kehoe	1987-88	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Peterson	Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790

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