NavigationDirectory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Wright | 2015-16 | Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College | assistant professor | Peterson | Antislavery and American Salvation |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Kent | Walgren | 1995-96 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Assistant Attorney General | Peterson | Bibliography of American Masonic and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850 |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Carolyn | Lawes | 1990-91 | UC Davis | associate instructor | Peterson | The Second Great Awakening and the Development of Commercial Capitalism in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1820-48 |
| Kabria | Baumgartner | 2015-16 | College of Wooster | assistant professor | Peterson | The Work of Time and Love: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Joanne | Wegner | 2014-15 | University of Minnesota | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Captive Economies: Commodified Bodies in Colonial New England, 1630-1763 |
| William | Todd | 1992-93 | University of Texas, Austin | professor emeritus | Peterson | A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792-1836 |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Megan | Haley-Newman | 1996-97 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pest Control Strategies and Their Social Implications in the Chesapeake Area, 1600-1800 |
| Eric | Stoykovich | 2006-7 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville | PhD candidate | Peterson | Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876 |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| David | Jaffee | 1988-89 | CUNY | assistant professor | Peterson | The People of the Wachusett: Town Founders and Village Historians of New England, 1630-1860 |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Matthew | Wittmann | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century |
| Russell | Martin | 1992-93 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Almanacs of the Southern States, 1732-1860 |
| 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." |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Catherine | Thompson | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850 |
| Konstantin | Dierks | 1998-99 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Letter Writing, Gender, and the Middling Sort in America, 1750-1800 |
| Ben | Mutschler | 1996-97 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cultures of Sickness, Cultures of Health: Illness in New England, 1690-1820 |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
| Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
| Peter | Martin | 1995-96 | Emory College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Forgotten Immigrant Church: The French-Canadian Religious Identity in New England |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Alan | Ruffman | 1997-98 | Geomarine Associates Ltd | president | Peterson | Historic Meterology and the 1775 Hurricane |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Michael | Bellesiles | 1992-93 | Emory University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840 |
| Faye | Dudden | 1988-89 | Union College | assistant professor | Peterson | Gender in Performance: Women in the American Theater, 1790-1870 |
| Heather | Nathans | 1998-99 | Tufts University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Avoiding Party Matters: The Boston Theatre Rivalriesof the 1790's |
| James Rixey | Ruffin | 1998-99 | Delaware | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Religion, 1783-1800 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Phillip | Troutman | 1997-98 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Geographies of Family and Market: Enslaved Migration in Antebellum Virginia and Washington, DC |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Kenneth | Haltman | 1993-94 | Bryn Mawr College | postdoctoral fellow | Peterson | The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture |
| Susan | Ryan | 1997-98 | UNC, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race and the Language Benevolence in Antebellum America |
