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 |
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Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Sarah | Weicksel | 2013-14 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era |
Michaël | Roy | 2013-14 | Université Paris 13 | Ph.D. Candidate in English | d’Héricourt | ’My Narrative Is Just Published’: The Production, Dissemination, and Reception of Antebellum Slave Narratives |
Greta | LaFleur | 2013-14 | University of Hawai'I at Manoa | assistant professor | Peterson | American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815 |
Gordon | Fraser | 2013-14 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence |
Emahunn | Campbell | 2013-14 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Construction of the Black Criminal |
Jacob | Crane | 2013-14 | Tufts University | PhD candidate | Schiller | Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840 |
Thomas | Augst | 2013-14 | New York University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | A Drunkard's Story: Social reform and mass culture in nineteenth-century America |
Lauren | Klein | 2013-14 | GA Insitute of Technology | assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013 |
Nazera | Wright | 2013-14 | University of Kentucky | Assistant Professor of English | Ford | Girlhood in African American Literature, 1827-1949 |
Marco | Marin | 2013-14 | University of Trieste | postdoctural fellow | Peterson | The Political Catechisms for Schools and Children in the United State (1790-1850) |
Sarah | Gerk | 2013-14 | Oberlin College | visiting teacher | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music |
Ryan | Carr | 2013-14 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890 |
Shana | Klein | 2013-14 | Univeristy of New Mexico | PhD candidate | AHPCS | The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900 |
Maria | Bollettino | 2013-14 | Framingham State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War |
Margaret | Abruzzo | 2013-14 | University of Alabama | associate professor | Lapides | Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin and Moral Responsibility |
Lincoln | Mullen | 2013-14 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Varieties of Religious Conversion |
Sonia | Hazard | 2013-14 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America |
Andrew | Fagal | 2013-14 | Binghamton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic |
Faith | Barrett | 2013-14 | Lawrence University | associate professor | Botein | Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America |
Marina | Moskowitz | 2013-14 | University of Glasgow | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Seed Money: Improvement and Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century American Garden |
Adam | Thomas | 2013-14 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Legacy | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
Robert | Lee | 2013-14 | University of CA, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851 |
Mary | Fuhrer | 2013-14 | independent scholar | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840 | |
Brenton | Grom | 2013-14 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840 |
Lindsay | DiCuirci | 2013-14 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | Botein | History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855 |
Jonathan | Senchyne | 2013-14 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Our Paper Allegories: A Sense for the Material Text in Antebellum American Literature |
Megan | Walsh | 2013-14 | St. Bonaventure University | assistant professor | NEMLA | Broadview Editon of Frank J. Webb's 'The Garies and Their Friends' |
Steffi | Dippold | 2013-14 | Stanford University | lecturer | Reese | Plain as in Primitive |
Christopher | Lukasik | 2013-14 | Purdue University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Image in the Text |
Sari | Altschuler | 2013-14 | University of South Florida | Assistant Professor of English | Hench | National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860 |
Aimee | Parkison | 2013 | Charlotte, NC | fiction writer | Hearst | research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans |
Amina | Gautier | 2013 | Chicago, IL | fiction writer | Hearst | research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island |
Lynn | Thomson | 2013 | New York, NY | dramaturg, theater director | Baron | research for for play tittled "The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls" |
Stephanie | Wolff | 2013 | Norwich, VT | artist, visual | Jay and Deborah Last | research for a suite of artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of anna Blackwood Howell |
Melissa | Range | 2013 | Columbia, MO | poet | Baron | research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator" |
Matthew | Sivils | 2012-13 | Iowa State University | assistant professor | Schiller | The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847 |
Brian | Valencia | 2012-13 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque |
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 |
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 |
Christopher | Apap | 2012-13 | Oakland University | special lecturer | Peterson | The Genius of the Place |
Jonathan | Den Hartog | 2012-13 | Northwestern College | associate professor | AHPCS | Transatlantic Antijacobinism |
Brian | Luskey | 2012-13 | West Virginia University | assistant professor | Tracy | Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century |
Melanie | Hernandez | 2012-13 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire |
Christina | Snyder | 2012-13 | Indiana University, Bloomington | assistant professor | Peterson | The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America |
Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
Christopher | Castiglia | 2012-13 | Pennsylvania State University | Liberal Arts Research Professor of English | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions |
Richard | Bell | 2012-13 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | Peterson | The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade |
Molly | Farrell | 2012-13 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America |
David | Anthony | 2012-13 | SIU Carbondale | associate professor | AAS-NEH | The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture |