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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cam | Terwilliger | 2011 | Somerville, MA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War |
| Heidi | Durrow | 2007 | Los Angeles, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era |
| 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 |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| Lisa | Norwood | 2001-2 | Stanford University | graduate student | Morgan | Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860 |
| Aaron | Marrs | 2010-11 | U.S. Department of State | historian | Peterson | Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution |
| Ellen | Gilbert | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | independent scholar | Peterson | St. Wulstan Society Papers |
| Ethan | Robey | 2002-3 | State University of New York at Binghamton | independent scholar | AHPCS | The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| Mary | Fuhrer | 2013-14 | independent scholar | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840 | |
| Kerstin | Vogel | 2005-6 | University of Mainz | instructor | Ebeling | Looking-Glass Legacies—The Writings of William Apess |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| Nicole | Waller | 2007-8 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz) | junior professor | Ebeling | American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World |
| Steffi | Dippold | 2013-14 | Stanford University | lecturer | Reese | Plain as in Primitive |
| Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
| 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 |
| Kathleen | Lawrence | 2004-5 | Boston University | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism" |
| Lydia | Fisher | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | lecturer | NEMLA | Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation |
| Karsten | Kummer | 2002-3 | University of Bremen | lecturer | Ebeling | Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations |
| Laura | Smith | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'." |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | lecturer | AAS-NEH | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| 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 |
| Anne | Harley | 2012 | Claremont, CA | musician, soprano | Hearst | research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record |
| Meganne | Fabrega | 2014 | Portsmouth, NH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for book title "Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls." Book will blend woman's history, art history, LGTB history, biography, and memoir |
| Mary Beth | Ellis | 2011 | Cincinnati, OH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" |
| Debra | Gwartney | 2008 | Eugene, OR | non-fitction writer | Baron | research of book on Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first European woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836 |
| 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 |
| Holly | Wendt | 2014 | Casper, WY | novelist | Baron | research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716 |
| Carol | Flueckiger | 2009 | Lubbock, TX | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research for body of paintings about feminism and early American reform practices |
| Sarah | McCoubrey | 2007 | Fayetteville, NY | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc. |
| Stephanie | Solomon | 2010 | Hermosa Beach, CA | performer | Jay and Deborah Last | research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution" |
| David | Silverman | 2001-2 | Princeton University | Ph.D. | Hench | Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2000-1 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. | Hench | Imperfect Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property |
| Cindy | Lobel | 2004-5 | CUNY Graduate Center | Ph.D. | Hench | Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1780-1860 |
| Timothy | Marr | 1999-00 | Yale | Ph.D. | Hench | Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2003-4 | Brandeis | Ph.D. | Hench | A Page, A Day: A History of the Diary in America |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | Ph.D. | Hench | Crossing Over: Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Ilyon | Woo | 2004-5 | Columbia University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Mother against Mother" |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2004-5 | Rutgers University | Ph.D. candidate | Botein | "Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project" |
| Katharina | Erhard | 2004-5 | University of Regensburg | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | ‘An Empire in Many Respects the Most Interesting in the World’: Choreographies of Empire in Early American Plays |
| Sara | Crosby | 2005-6 | University of Notre Dame | Ph.D. candidate | AAS-NEH | The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860 |
| Juliane | Braun | 2008-9 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2004-5 | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic" |
| Katherine | Hijar | 2004-5 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | "Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880" |
| 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 |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
