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
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

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