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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
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

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