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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| Mairin | Odle | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830 |
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Michael | Cohen | 2005-6 | New York University | PhD. Candidate | Tracy | Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915 |
| Kimberly | Gladman | 2000-1 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Mysteries and Miseries: City Mysteries Novels and Class in Antebellum America |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Kathryn | Mudgett | 1999-00 | Northeastern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea |
| Elizabeth | Dillon | 2010-11 | Northeastern University | associate professor | TRUE | Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World |
| Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | TRUE | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
| Daniel | Lewis | 2010-11 | Northern Virginia Community College | assistant professor | The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861 | |
| Jonathan | Den Hartog | 2012-13 | Northwestern College | associate professor | AHPCS | Transatlantic Antijacobinism |
| Coleman | Hutchison | 2005-6 | Northwestern University | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Occasioning Verse and Volume |
| Hugh | McIntosh | 2010-11 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Christopher | Apap | 2012-13 | Oakland University | special lecturer | Peterson | The Genius of the Place |
| Molly | Farrell | 2012-13 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America |
| Jared | Gardner | 2000-1 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Anne | Verplanck | 2011-12 | Penn State University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880 |
| Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Laura | Murray | 2010-11 | Queen's University | associate professor | Tracy | What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies |
| Anne | Baker | 1999-00 | Reed College | visiting assistant professor | Botein | Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States |
| Tanya | Sheehan | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | assistant professor | TRUE | Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2004-5 | Rutgers University | Ph.D. candidate | Botein | "Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project" |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Meredith | McGill | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | associate professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Ellen | Gilbert | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | independent scholar | Peterson | St. Wulstan Society Papers |
| Kathryn | Koo | 2005-6 | Saint Mary's College of California | assistant professor | Peterson | In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
| David | Anthony | 2005-6 | SIU Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism |
| David | Anthony | 2012-13 | SIU Carbondale | associate professor | TRUE | The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture |
| Elizabeth | Pryor | 2010-11 | Smith College | assistant professor | Peterson | The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840 |
| Helen | Horowitz | 1999-00 | Smith College | professor | Mellon Postdoctoral Research fellow | Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80 |
| David | Anthony | 2000-1 | Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | White-Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America |
| Molly | Hardy | 2012-13 | Southwestern University | post-doc fellow | NeMLA | Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production |
| Lisa | Norwood | 2001-2 | Stanford University | graduate student | Morgan | Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860 |
| Martha | Rojas | 2003-4 | Stanford University | PhD candidate | NEMLA | Diplomatic Letters |
| Ethan | Robey | 2002-3 | State University of New York at Binghamton | independent scholar | American Historical Print Collectors | The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Carrie | Bramen | 2009-10 | SUNY Buffalo | associate professor | NEMLA | American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture |
