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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betsy | Klimasmith | 2008-9 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Botein | "Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction." |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | TRUE | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2008-9 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | NEMLA | "The Freedoms of a Stranger, 1830-1860." |
| 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." |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| 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." |
| Laura | Smith | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'." |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Catherine | Parisian | 2008-9 | independent scholar | Reese | "A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney." | |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Courtney | Weikle-Mills | 2008-9 | University of Pittsburgh | assistant professor | Reese | "Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852." |
| Patricia | Roylance | 2008-9 | Syracuse University | assistant professor | Last | "Eclipse of Empire." |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2008-9 | University of Texas | assistant professor | Last | "Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | TRUE | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Jennifer | Van Horn | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | AHPCS | "The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)." |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| Nancy | Siegel | 2008-9 | Juniata College | assistant professor | Last | "Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints." |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Sarah | Gould | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | "Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games." |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | TRUE | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
| Joseph | Stubenrauch | 2008-9 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Last | "Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution." |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Wendy | Katz | 2008-9 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Last | "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862." |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Angela | George | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Last | "The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893" |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | "Dirty Politics in Early America" |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | TRUE | "Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2007-8 | University of Toronto | associate professor | TRUE | "Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War" |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
| Maura | D'Amore | 2007-8 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | "Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | TRUE | "Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825" |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Nikos | Pappas | 2007-8 | University of Kentucky | PhD candidate | Reese | "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870) |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
