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
James	Secord	2004-5	University of Cambridge	professor	Botein	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
Annie	Bissett	2015	Northampton, MA	printmaker	Jay and Deborah Last	research for a project about the spirituality/religiosity of American national identity
Alan	Ruffman	1997-98	Geomarine Associates Ltd	president	Peterson	Historic Meterology and the 1775 Hurricane
Marco	Marin	2013-14	University of Trieste	postdoctural fellow	Peterson	The Political Catechisms for Schools and Children in the United State (1790-1850)
Kenneth	Haltman	1993-94	Bryn Mawr College	postdoctoral fellow	Peterson	The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Natasha	Hurley	2008-9	University of Alberta	postdoctoral fellow	ASECS	"The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe."
William	Coleman	2015-16	Washington University in St. Louis	Postdoctoral Fellow	Last	Domestic Bliss: The Artist and the Country House in Nineteenth-Century America
Edward	Rugemer	2006-7	Boston College	postdoctoral fellow	Tracy	The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery
Gillian	Osborne	2015-16	University of California, Berkeley	postdoctoral	Packer	Henry David Thoreau and Antebellum Botany
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Richard	John	1994-95	University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate professor of History	post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor	RA	Visions of Enterprise: The Political Origins of the Modern Communications Infrastructure in the United States, 1837-17
Molly	Hardy	2012-13	Southwestern University	post-doc fellow	NEMLA	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Nancy Vieira	Couto	1995		Poet and freelance editor/consultant, Ithaca, NY	Artist	Book of Poems and Prose Pieces on America Vesspucci
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Geoffrey	Brock	2001-2	Tallahassee, FL	poet	Hearst	Poems based on American Historical Events
Margaret	Rozga	2014	Milwaukee, WI	poet	Baron	research for collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Robert	Strong	2009	Canton, NY	poet	Hearst	research for book-length work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War title "Bright Advent"
Kathryn	Nuernberger	2010	Glouster, OH	poet	Hearst	research for a collection of poems titled "Curiosities," which merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos
Catherine	Sasanov	2016		poet	Baron	Markd Y (Archives and Invocations)
Martha	Carlson-Bradley	2008	Hillsborough, NH	poet	Baron	research for collection of poems, New England Primer
Melissa	Range	2013	Columbia, MO	poet	Baron	research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator"
David	Roderick	2003		Poet	Baron	Blue Colonial, a collection of poems on the cultural interaction between the colonists and the Wampanoag tribe in the early seventeenth-century
Kelle	Groom	2011	New Smyrna Beach, FL	poet	Hearst	research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
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
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
Brighde	Mullins	2016		playwright	Hearst	The life and times of Phyllis Wheatley
Aubrey	Wertheim	1996	Oberlin, Ohio	playwright	Artist	A Full Length One Woman Show about Fanny Fern, the First Female American Columnist
Gino	DiIorio	2007	New York, NY	playwright	Baron	research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment
Sarah	Stern	2014	Red Hook, NY	playwright	Hearst	research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
Lavonne	Mueller	2003	Chicago, IL	Playwright	Hearst	A Collection of Short One-Story Plays About Six Notable American Women, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Sacagawea, Lucy Stone, Harriet Tubman, and Martha Washington
Lauren	Yee	2009	San Francisco, CA	playwright	Baron	research for interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America"
Jeffrey	Hatcher	1995	Minneapolis, MN	playwright	Artist	Sockdology, a Play about the Actors in the Play Our American Cousin
Thomas	Dunn	1998	Henniker, New Hampshire	playwright	Artist	Research for a play about Winslow Homer and his early career,1856-1875
Lisa	Hayes	2011	Bowie, MD	playwright	Baron	research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland
Deborah	Brevoort	2012	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Baron	research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity
Janet	Pritchard	2008	Mansfield Center, CT	photographier	Jay and Deborah Last	Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s
Ann	Lovett	2009	New Paltz, NY	photographer	Hearst	research for artists book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Mass mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
Krista	Elrick	2016		photographer	Jay and Deborah Last	Retracing Audubon: Contemporary Views
Jennifer Ann	Greenhill	2005-6	Yale University	PhD. Candidate	AHPCS	The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906
Catherine	Allgor	1995-96	Yale	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832
Lisa	Brooks	2001-2	Cornell University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Recovering the Voices of Our Ancestors
Kyle	Roberts	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	PhD. Candidate	Reese	Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860
Michael	Carter	2005-6	University of Southern California	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839
Wendy	Warren	2005-6	Yale University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700
Maria	Bollettino	2005-6	University of Texas at Austin	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
Michael	Cohen	2005-6	New York University	PhD. Candidate	Tracy	Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915
Coleman	Hutchison	2005-6	Northwestern University	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Occasioning Verse and Volume
Daniel	Wewers	2005-6	Harvard University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833

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