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
April	Masten	2008-9	State University of New York, Stony Brook	associate professor	Peterson	"The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture."
Shelby	Balik	2003-4	University of Wisconsin - Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Religious Frontier
Carrie	Hyde	2009-10	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868
Angela	Hudson	2004-5	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s"
Matthew	Wittmann	2005-6	University of Michigan	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century
Tanya	Mears	2008-9	Norfolk State University	assistant professor	Peterson	"'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent."
Thomas	Brown	2003-4	University of South Carolina	associate professor	Peterson	The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
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
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"
Wendy	Woloson	2005-6	Library Company of Philadelphia	curator	Peterson	Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Jane	Merritt	2008-9	Old Dominion University	associate professor	Peterson	"The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."
Matthew	Clavin	2003-4	American University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Men of Color, to Arms!
Gustavo	Paz	2009-10	University of Buenos Aires	associate professor	Peterson	News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825)
Katherine	McCaffrey	2004-5	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril"
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Monique	Patenaude	2008-9	University of Rochester	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870."
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
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
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
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
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"
Kelly	Sisson	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	"King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936."
Ellen	Gilbert	2003-4	Rutgers University	independent scholar	Peterson	St. Wulstan Society Papers
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Helene	Quanquin	2009-10	University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle	associate professor	Peterson	'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890
Ilyon	Woo	2004-5	Columbia University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Mother against Mother"
Thomas	Coens	2002-3	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
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."
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Benjamin	Cooper	2011-12	Washington University in St Louis	lecturer	Peterson	Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
Wendy	Roberts	2009-10	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America
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
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Christine	DeLucia	2011-12	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78)
Howard	Chudacoff	2000-1	Brown University	professor	Peterson	Children and Their Styles of Play, 1750-1880
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Brandon	Johnson	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Peterson	Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893
Sarah	Keyes	2010-11	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Peterson	Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
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
Hannah	Farber	2011-12	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
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
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
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Sara	Lampert	2010-11	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
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
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850

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