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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Richard | Fox | 2000-1 | University of Southern California | professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | American Jesus |
Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
Lydia | Schurman | 1988-89 | Northern Virginia Community College | professor | Peterson | Publishers, Publications, and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World, 1860-15 |
Bruce | Steiner | 1982-83 | Ohio State University | professor | Haven | Lawyers, Dissenting Churches, and Connecticut's Republican Party, 1790-1820 |
Mary Beth | Norton | 1984-85 | Cornell University | professor | Peterson | Gender in Seventeenth-Century America |
Jeffrey | Groves | 2011-12 | Harvey Mudd College | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society |
Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
Roderick | Cave | 1976-77 | University of the West Indies | professor | Daniels | A History of Printing in the West Indies |
Alden | Vaughan | 1982-83 | Columbia University | professor | AAS-NEH | Indians and Europeans in British North America |
Rudy | Favretti | 1978-79 | University of Connecticut | professor | Daniels | Landscaping Use of Trees in New England |
Harvey | Green | 1997-98 | Northeastern University | professor | Peterson | Myth and History in American Literary and Material Culture, 1850-10 |
H | Henderson | 1976-77 | Oklahoma State University | professor | Daniels | Political Culture in Virginia and Massachusetts, 1775-1800 |
Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
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) |
Tara | Bynum | 2016-17 | Rutgers University | Postdoctoral fellow in English | AAS-NEH | Reading Pleasures |
Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
William | Coleman | 2015-16 | Washington University in St. Louis | Postdoctoral Fellow | Last | Domestic Bliss: The Artist and the Country House in Nineteenth-Century America |
Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
Kenneth | Haltman | 1993-94 | Bryn Mawr College | postdoctoral fellow | Peterson | The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture |
Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
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 |
Lukas | Etter | 2016-17 | University of Siegen | Post-doctoral Research Fellow | Ebeling | ’Word Problems’: Popular and Educational Discourses on Mathematics in the Pre-Civil War United States |
Mark | Boonshoft | 2016-17 | New York Public Library | Post-doctoral Research Fellow | Alstott-Morgan | Monarchical Education and the Making of the American Republic, 1730-1812 |
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 | |
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 | |
Shana | Youngdahl | 2017 | Farmington, Maine | Poet | Hearst | Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry |
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 |
Arielle | Ballard | 2017 | Brockton, Massachusetts | Poet | Hearst | Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry |
Brian | Teare | 2011 | San Francisco, CA | poet | Hearst | research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism |
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" |
Geoffrey | Brock | 2001-2 | Tallahassee, FL | poet | Hearst | Poems based on American Historical Events |
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 |
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" |
Linwood | Rumney | 2017 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Poet | Baron | Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means” |
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 |
Catherine | Sasanov | 2016 | poet | Baron | Markd Y (Archives and Invocations) | |
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 |