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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jonathan | Senchyne | 2009-10 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Bottles of Ink, and Reams of Paper': Racial Mixture and Legibility in Antebellum Illustration |
| Helene | Quanquin | 2009-10 | University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle | associate professor | Peterson | 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890 |
| Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| Alexandra | Ganser | 2009-10 | Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg | assistant professor | Ebeling | (Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900 |
| Emily | Pawley | 2009-10 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860 |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Nenette | Luarca-Shoaf | 2009-10 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2009-10 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860 |
| Arden | Stern | 2009-10 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface |
| James | Snead | 2009-10 | George Mason University | associate professor | Peterson | The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2009-10 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860 |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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." |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| 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)." |
| Nancy | Siegel | 2008-9 | Juniata College | assistant professor | Last | "Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints." |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Sabine | Schindler | 2008-9 | Martin Luther Univeristy | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Talk of the Nation: Public speaking, Cultural Performance, and the Negotiation of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, 1840-1880 |
| Jessica | Lepler | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | Hench | 1837: Anatomy of a Panic |
| Sarah | Gould | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | "Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games." |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
