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
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
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Jonathan	Den Hartog	2012-13	Northwestern College	associate professor	AHPCS	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
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"
Helene	Quanquin	2009-10	University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle	associate professor	Peterson	'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Adam	Nelson	2008-9	University of Wisconsin, Madison	associate professor	TRUE	"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University"
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Mitchell	Snay	2000-1	Denison University	associate professor	Tracy	A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Sean	Kelley	2008-9	Hartwick College	associate professor	TRUE	"Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora"
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Robert	Naeher	2006-7	Emma Willard School	chair	Peterson	Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Joycelyn	Moody	2002-3	Hamilton College	Chair, Women's Studies	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy
Wendy	Woloson	2005-6	Library Company of Philadelphia	curator	Peterson	Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Albrecht	Koschnik	2009-10	Library Company of Philadelphia	fellow	ASECS	American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
Lisa	Norwood	2001-2	Stanford University	graduate student	Morgan	Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Ellen	Gilbert	2003-4	Rutgers University	independent scholar	Peterson	St. Wulstan Society Papers
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
Lynne	Bassett	2004-5		independent scholar	Peterson	"American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production"
Peter	Reed	2007-8	Florida State University	instructor	NEMLA	"Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852"
Kathleen	Lawrence	2004-5	Boston University	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism"
Benjamin	Cooper	2011-12	Washington University in St Louis	lecturer	Peterson	Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Lydia	Fisher	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	lecturer	NEMLA	Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	TRUE	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Kevin	Muller	2008-9	University of California at Berkeley	lecturer	Last	"An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900"
Jennifer	Anderson	2004-5	New York University	Ph.D.	Peterson	"Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century"
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"
Katherine	Hijar	2004-5	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate	AHPCS	"Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880"
Katherine	McCaffrey	2004-5	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril"
Robb	Haberman	2004-5	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	Legacy	"Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America"
Sara	Fanning	2004-5	University of Texas at Austin	Ph.D. candidate	Tracy	"The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830"
Ilyon	Woo	2004-5	Columbia University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Mother against Mother"
Angela	Hudson	2004-5	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s"
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Sara	Crosby	2005-6	University of Notre Dame	Ph.D. candidate	AAS-NEH	The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860
Dominique	Zino	2011-12	CUNY Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James
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
Nikos	Pappas	2007-8	University of Kentucky	PhD candidate	Reese	"Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870)
Carrie	Hyde	2009-10	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868
Matthew	Bahar	2010-11	University of Oklahoma	PhD candidate	Legacy	People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World

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