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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holly | Heinzer | 2000-1 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850 |
| Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
| Glenn | Hendler | 2002-3 | University of Notre Dame | associate professor | NEMLA | Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Melanie | Hernandez | 2012-13 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire |
| Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
| Eldrid | Herrington | 2003-4 | University College, Dublin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation |
| Bernd | Herzogenrath | 2003-4 | University of Cologne | researcher | Ebeling | Cotton Mather’s Conception of the Body |
| Kristen | Highland | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Botein | At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city |
| Katherine | Hijar | 2004-5 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | "Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880" |
| Sean | Hill | 2010 | Bemidji, MN | poet | Hearst | research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s |
| Kristina | Hinz-Bode | 2007-8 | University of Kassel | assistant professor | Ebeling | America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature |
| Kristina | Hinz-Bode | 2006-7 | University of Kassel | assistant professor | Ebeling | America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature |
| Barbara | Hochman | 2001-2 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | senior lecturer | NEMLA | Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution |
| Graham | Hodges | 1999-00 | Colgate University | professor | Peterson | David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom |
| Michael | Hoeflich | 2001-2 | University of Kansas School of Law | professor | Reese | The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century |
| Kerin | Holt | 2010-11 | Utah State University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S. |
| Woody | Holton | 1999-00 | Bloomsburg University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Republics of Hope and the Empire of Despair: A Social Interpretation of the United States Constitution |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2000-1 | Huntingdon College | visiting assistant professor | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2000-1 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. | Hench | Imperfect Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2010-11 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Reese | E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction |
| Helen | Horowitz | 1999-00 | Smith College | professor | Mellon Postdoctoral Research fellow | Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80 |
| John | Howe | 2002-3 | University of Minnesota | professor emeritus | ASECS | The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| 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 |
| Christopher | Hunter | 2012-13 | California Institute of Technology | assistant professor | Reese | A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850 |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Coleman | Hutchison | 2005-6 | Northwestern University | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Occasioning Verse and Volume |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Gian | Iachini | 2009-10 | University of Milan | teaching assistant | Drawn-to-Art | 'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | "Dirty Politics in Early America" |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2003-4 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr |
| Leon | Jackson | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | assistant professor | Peterson | The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s |
| Sandra | Jackson-Opoku | 2008 | Chicago, IL | novelist | Hearst | God's Gift to the Natives, novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora |
| Michael | Jarvis | 2003-4 | University of Rochester | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | 'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815 |
| 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 |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
| Ann | Johnson | 2002-3 | Fordham University | assistant professor | Botein | Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
| Carsten | Junker | 2011-12 | University of Bremen | assistant professor | Ebeling | Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| 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." |
| Neil | Kamil | 2012-13 | University of Texas at Austin | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789 |
