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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 2009-10 | SUNY Fredonia | associate professor | AAS-NEH | The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865 |
| April | Haynes | 2009-10 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Ph.D. in history | Hench | Riotous Flesh: Confronting Gender and Sexuality through Grahamite Health Reform, 1830-1860 |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
| Jennifer | Pierce | 2009-10 | The University of Iowa | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries |
| Gustavo | Paz | 2009-10 | University of Buenos Aires | associate professor | Peterson | News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825) |
| Mark | Mattes | 2009-10 | University of Iowa | PhD candidate | Botein | Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings |
| Michael | Winship | 2009-10 | University of Texas | professor | AAS-NEH | Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950 |
| Carrie | Bramen | 2009-10 | SUNY Buffalo | associate professor | NEMLA | American Niceness: The Making of a National Type in Nineteenth-Century Culture |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Kelly | Ross | 2009-10 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2009-10 | Florida International University | assistant professor | Peterson | We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840 |
| Radiclani | Clytus | 2009-10 | Tufts University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual |
| Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
| Steven | Deyle | 2009-10 | University of Houston | associate professor | Tracy | Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan |
| Honoree | Jeffers | 2009 | Norman, OK | poet | Baron | research for book of poems titled "The Art of Mastering" whose centerpiece is a series about Phillis Wheatley, which imagines her interior life |
| Ann | Lovett | 2009 | New Paltz, NY | photographer | Hearst | research for artists book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Mass mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them |
| Robert | Strong | 2009 | Canton, NY | poet | Hearst | research for book-length work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War title "Bright Advent" |
| Carol | Flueckiger | 2009 | Lubbock, TX | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research for body of paintings about feminism and early American reform practices |
| Lauren | Yee | 2009 | San Francisco, CA | playwright | Baron | research for interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America" |
| Allison | Malcom | 2008-9 | University of Illinois-Chicago | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870." |
| Kelly | Sisson | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936." |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Betsy | Klimasmith | 2008-9 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | associate professor | Botein | "Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction." |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2008-9 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | NEMLA | The Freedoms of a Stranger, 1830-1860 |
| Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| Jeffrey | Kaja | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "From Rivers to Roads: Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800." |
| Laura | Smith | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'." |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Catherine | Parisian | 2008-9 | independent scholar | Reese | "A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney." | |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Courtney | Weikle-Mills | 2008-9 | University of Pittsburgh | assistant professor | Reese | "Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852." |
| Patricia | Roylance | 2008-9 | Syracuse University | assistant professor | Last | "Eclipse of Empire." |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Juliane | Braun | 2008-9 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2008-9 | University of Texas | assistant professor | Last | "Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Jennifer | Van Horn | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | AHPCS | "The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)." |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| Nancy | Siegel | 2008-9 | Juniata College | assistant professor | Last | "Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints." |
