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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Kimberly | Elkins | 2007 | New York, NY | fiction writer | Hearst | research for novel set from 1829-1876 about the lives of Laura Bridgman, Julia Ward Howe, and Sara Wright |
| Suzanne | Rivecca | 2010 | San Francisco, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for a novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| Steffi | Dippold | 2013-14 | Stanford University | lecturer | Reese | Plain as in Primitive |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| Juliane | Braun | 2008-9 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana |
| Katherine | Hijar | 2004-5 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | "Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880" |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| 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 |
| Robb | Haberman | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | Ph.D. candidate | Legacy | "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America" |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845 |
| Sara | Fanning | 2004-5 | University of Texas at Austin | Ph.D. candidate | Tracy | "The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830" |
