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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seth | Rockman | 2006-7 | Brown University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
| Nancy | Shoemaker | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Whaling History of New England Indians |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Kristina | Hinz-Bode | 2006-7 | University of Kassel | assistant professor | Ebeling | America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Kenneth | Cohen | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | AHPCS | 'To Give Good Sport': The Making and Meaning of Sporting Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840 |
| Natasha | Lightfoot | 2006-7 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858 |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| Kimberly | Elkins | 2007 | New York, NY | fiction writer | Hearst | research for novel set from 1829-1876 about the lives of Laura Bridgman, Julia Ward Howe, and Sara Wright |
| Gino | DiIorio | 2007 | New York, NY | playwright | Baron | research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment |
| Heidi | Durrow | 2007 | Los Angeles, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era |
| Sarah | McCoubrey | 2007 | Fayetteville, NY | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc. |
| Peter | Messer | 2007-8 | Mississippi State University | assistant professor | ASECS | "Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America" |
| Richard | Bell | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States |
| Mary | Zundo | 2007-8 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Last | "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier" |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845 |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| 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 | AAS-NEH | 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 | AAS-NEH | 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" |
| Nicole | Waller | 2007-8 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz) | junior professor | Ebeling | American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World |
| 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 | AAS-NEH | 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) |
| Kristina | Hinz-Bode | 2007-8 | University of Kassel | assistant professor | Ebeling | America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Sarah | Carter | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Last | "Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Stephen | Marini | 2007-8 | Wellesley College | professor | AAS-NEH | "Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America" |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Maurizio | Valsania | 2007-8 | University of Torino, Italy | associate professor | Last | The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828 |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| Michael | Komanecky | 2007-8 | independent scholar | Last | "Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions" | |
| Joanna | Cohen | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Last | "'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876" |
| Linford | Fisher | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775" |
