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
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
Christopher	Apap	2012-13	Oakland University	special lecturer	Peterson	The Genius of the Place
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	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
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
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
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
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
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Holly	Heinzer	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850
Christine	Croxall	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
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
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
Benjamin	Irvin	2000-1	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
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
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
Andrew	Lewis	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Antiques of State: Archaeology in Early Republican America
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
Catherine	Kelly	1999-00	University of Oklahoma	assistant professor	Peterson	Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Krystyn	Moon	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920
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
Cindy	Lobel	1999-00	CUNY Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Peterson	Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860
JoAnne	Thomas	2000-1	Western Michigan University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Kathryn	Mudgett	1999-00	Northeastern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea
William	van Arragon	2000-1	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Richard	Boles	2013-14	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850
Laura	Schiavo	1999-00	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Peterson	A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Emahunn	Campbell	2013-14	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Construction of the Black Criminal
Robert	Wright	1999-00	Temple University	visiting assistant professor	Peterson	Early American Finance: Revolution, Integration, Expansion
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Ryan	Carr	2013-14	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890
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
Edward	Andrews	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775"
Ruma	Chopra	2006-7	University of California at Davis	PhD candidate	Peterson	Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783
Andrew	Fagal	2013-14	Binghamton University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic

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