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 |
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Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Thomas | Augst | 1999-00 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Reese | Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture |
Pamela | Schirmeister | 1994-95 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper |
Jessica | Lepler | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | Hench | 1837: Anatomy of a Panic |
Gail | Smith | 1995-96 | Marquette University | assistant professor | RA | Reading the Word: Harriet Beecher Stow and Nineteenth Century American Hermeneutics |
Eldrid | Herrington | 2003-4 | University College, Dublin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation |
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. |
Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
Christen | Mucher | 2015-16 | Smith College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Before American History |
Michael | Carlebach | 1986-87 | University of Miami | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of Photojournalism in America, 1839-80 |
John | Corrigan | 1990-91 | University of Virginia | assistant professor | RA | Reason, Passion, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century |
Carolyn | Eastman | 2008-9 | University of Texas | assistant professor | Last | "Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." |
Renee | Sentilles | 2003-4 | Case Western Reserve University | assistant professor | Peterson | Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls |
Robert | Winans | 1984-85 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Boni | Checklist of Catalogues of Books printed in 18th-century American Newspapers |
Nathan | Hatch | 1977-78 | University of Notre Dame | assistant professor | Daniels | From Revolution to Reaction |
Michael | Bellesiles | 1992-93 | Emory University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840 |
Christa | Vogelius | 2015-16 | University of Copenhagen | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America |
Martin | Brückner | 1998-99 | University of Delaware | assistant professor | ASECS | The Culture of Geographic Letters in Early America |
Daniel | Cohen | 1992-93 | Florida International University | assistant professor | Botein | Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860 |
Russell | Duncan | 1993-94 | John Carroll University | assistant professor | Peterson | Joshua Fights the Civil War: James Montgomery, 'Bleeding Kansas,' and Black Equality |
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 |
Alan | Taylor | 1989-90 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | William Cooper's Town |
Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
Karen | Weierman | 2000-1 | Worcester State College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870 |
Jeannine | DeLombard | 2001-2 | University of Puget Sound | assistant professor | NEMLA | At the Bar of Public Opinion: Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism |
Michael | Hackenberg | 1986-87 | University of Chicago | assistant professor | Boni | The Subscription Publishing Phenomenon; William Still's Selling of The Underground Railroad in Philadelphia; The Firm of Deming and Francis in Wethersfield, Conn; The Career of Robert Sears of New York |
Kenneth | Anderson | 1973-74 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | assistant professor | Mellon short-term fellow | Research on the writings of James Fenimore Cooper |
John | King | 1980-81 | University of Michigan | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Puritan Psychomachy: Themes of Piety and Mental Pathology in Early America |
Dawn | Coleman | 2006-7 | University of Tennessee | assistant professor | NEMLA | Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel |
Lauren | Klein | 2013-14 | GA Insitute of Technology | assistant professor | Drawn-to-Art | A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013 |
Patricia | Crain | 1997-98 | Princeton University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Story of A: Alphabetization and American Literature from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter |
Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
T.J. | Tomlin | 2010-11 | University of Northern Colorado | assistant professor | Botein | A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820 |
Ann | Withington | 1991-92 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Elite and Popular Culture in the Confederation and Early National Period |
Heike | Steinhoff | 2014-15 | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | Assistant Professor of American Studies | Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship | Sex in the City: Urban Sexuality in American Literature and Culture |
Urvashi | Chakravarty | 2014-15 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Assistant Professor of English | Lapides | Serving Like a Free Man: Labor, Liberty, and Consent in Early Modern England |
Katy | Chiles | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee | Assistant Professor of English | Botein | Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature |
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 |
Drew | Lopenzina | 2014-15 | Old Dominion University | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Cultural Biography of William Apess |
Sarah | Schuetze | 2016-17 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | assistant professor of English | Last | Calamity Howl |
Sarah | Schuetze | 2017-18 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | assistant professor of English | AAS-NEH | Calamity Howl: Fear of Illness in Early American Writing |
Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
Nazera | Wright | 2013-14 | University of Kentucky | Assistant Professor of English | Ford | Girlhood in African American Literature, 1827-1949 |
Douglas | Guerra | 2014-15 | SUNY, Oswego | Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing | Last | On the Move: Gaming Models for Literary Theory |
Kate | Mulry | 2016-17 | California State University, Bakersfield | assistant professor of history | ASECS | Unwholesome Tinctures: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic |
Sarah | Crabtree | 2013-14 | San Francisco State University | Assistant Professor of History | ASECS | Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840 |
Katherine | Grandjean | 2017-18 | Wellesley College | assistant professor of history | AAS-NEH | The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution |
Abigail | Cooper | 2016-17 | Brandeis University | assistant professor of history | AAS-NEH | ‘Lord, Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War |
Jonathan | Yeager | 2014-15 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Assistant Professor of History | Reese | Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture |
Linford | Fisher | 2014-15 | Brown University | Assistant Professor of History | AAS-NEH | The Land of the Unfree: Africans, Indians, and the Varieties of Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England and the Atlantic World |
Brian | Rouleau | 2014-15 | Texas A&M University | Assistant Professor of History | Schiller | Empire's Children: Youth Culture and the Expansionist Impulse |