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
Thomas	Coens	2002-3	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
Ellen	Gilbert	2003-4	Rutgers University	independent scholar	Peterson	St. Wulstan Society Papers
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
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
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
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Howard	Chudacoff	2000-1	Brown University	professor	Peterson	Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880
Brandon	Johnson	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Peterson	Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Joseph	Cullon	2000-1	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Work of Many Hands: Ships and the Economic Culture of Early New England
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
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
Kimberly	Gladman	2000-1	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Mysteries and Miseries: City Mysteries Novels and Class in Antebellum America
Joycelyn	Moody	2002-3	Hamilton College	Chair, Women's Studies	Peterson	Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy
Scott	Miltenberger	2003-4	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Peterson	All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
Honor	Sachs	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry
Christopher	Grasso	1999-00	College of William and Mary	associate professor	Peterson	Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century
Katherine	Preston	2003-4	College of William & Mary	associate professor	Peterson	Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Catherine	Haulman	1999-00	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820
Matthew	Pursell	2003-4	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780
Holly	Heinzer	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Benjamin	Cooper	2011-12	Washington University in St Louis	lecturer	Peterson	Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
Graham	Hodges	1999-00	Colgate University	professor	Peterson	David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Benjamin	Irvin	2000-1	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress
Sarah	Keyes	2010-11	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Peterson	Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
Christine	DeLucia	2011-12	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78)
Helena	Ifeka	1999-00	Columbia University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Parkman Relations
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Andrew	Lewis	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Antiques of State: Archaeology in Early Republican America
Sara	Lampert	2010-11	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Catherine	Kelly	1999-00	University of Oklahoma	assistant professor	Peterson	Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic
Krystyn	Moon	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation 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
Cindy	Lobel	1999-00	CUNY Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Peterson	Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860
Christopher	Apap	2012-13	Oakland University	special lecturer	Peterson	The Genius of the Place
JoAnne	Thomas	2000-1	Western Michigan University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War
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
Claire	Gherini	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Kathryn	Mudgett	1999-00	Northeastern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
William	van Arragon	2000-1	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892

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