NavigationDirectory 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 |
Date |
Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
| Jack | Larkin | 2011-12 | Clark University | affiliate professor | AAS-NEH | David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865 |
| 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 |
| Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| Carsten | Junker | 2011-12 | University of Bremen | assistant professor | Ebeling | Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates |
| Kara | French | 2011-12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850 |
| J. Brenton | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | PhD candidate | Botein | Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2011-12 | Florida International University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850 |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Steven | Smith | 2011-12 | University of Missouri | PhD candidate | Reese | A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830 |
| Aston | Gonzalez | 2011-12 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity |
| John | Demos | 2011-12 | Yale University | Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic |
| Claire | Gherini | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800 |
| Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
| Matthew | Garrett | 2011-12 | Wesleyan University | assistant professor | NEMLA | Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic |
| Nicolas | Barreyre | 2011-12 | University Paris Ouest Nanterre | assistant professor | Tracy | Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| Jeffrey | Groves | 2011-12 | Harvey Mudd College | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society |
| John | Leary | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination |
| Matthew | Amato | 2011-12 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | lecturer | AAS-NEH | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Amber | LaPiana | 2011-12 | Washington State University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Mapping Literary Regionalism |
| Julien | Mauduit | 2011-12 | Universite du Quebec a Montreal | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials |
| Adam | Gordon | 2011-12 | UCLA | Ph.D. in English | Hench | Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America |
| Wendy | Bellion | 2011-12 | University of Delaware | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory |
| Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
| Lara | Cohen | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures |
| Anne | Verplanck | 2011-12 | Penn State University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880 |
| Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| Christine | DeLucia | 2011-12 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78) |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2011-12 | University of Texas | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print |
| Lisa | Hayes | 2011 | Bowie, MD | playwright | Baron | research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland |
| Brian | Teare | 2011 | San Francisco, CA | poet | Hearst | research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism |
| Cam | Terwilliger | 2011 | Somerville, MA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War |
| Kelle | Groom | 2011 | New Smyrna Beach, FL | poet | Hearst | research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA |
| Mary Beth | Ellis | 2011 | Cincinnati, OH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" |
| Matthew | Bahar | 2010-11 | University of Oklahoma | PhD candidate | Legacy | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2010-11 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Reese | E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction |
| Daniel | Rood | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | Ph.D. in history | Hench | Plantation Technocrats: A History of Science and Technology in the Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830-1860 |
| Hugh | McIntosh | 2010-11 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel |
| Sara | Lampert | 2010-11 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry |
| T.J. | Tomlin | 2010-11 | University of Northern Colorado | assistant professor | Botein | A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820 |
| Peter | Reed | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | NEMLA | Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865 |
| Laura | Murray | 2010-11 | Queen's University | associate professor | Tracy | What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Aaron | Marrs | 2010-11 | U.S. Department of State | historian | Peterson | Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution |
| Meredith | Bak | 2010-11 | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture |
