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
Louis	Masur	1998-99	City College of New York	professor	Peterson	The American Republic in 1831
Lisa	Wilson	2010-11	Connecticut College	professor	AAS-NEH	Cinderella's Family
David	Hall	1981-82	Boston University	professor	AAS-NEH	History of Popular Culture in Colonial New England
Robert	Begiebing	1996	New Hampshire College	professor	Artist	The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Artist: Or, A True Account of Startling and Amusing Incidents from Itinerant Life
Karen	Halttunen	1999-00	University of California, Davis	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock
Stephen	Marini	1988-89	Wellesley College	professor	AAS-NEH	Religion in the American Revolution
Philip	Morgan	1996-97	Florida State University	professor	AAS-NEH	The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas	Davis	1980-81	Kent State University	professor	Daniels	An Edition of Edward Taylor's Harmony of the Gospels
Catherine	Albanese	1983-84	Wright State	professor	Haven	The Divine Harmonia: Transcendentalism, Popular Religion, and Healing Movements in Nineteenth-Century America
Kay	House	1977-78	San Francisco State University	professor	Daniels	Editing Cooper's The Pilot
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
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."
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
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
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
Geoffrey	Brock	2001-2	Tallahassee, FL	poet	Hearst	Poems based on American Historical Events
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
Martha	Carlson-Bradley	2008	Hillsborough, NH	poet	Baron	research for collection of poems, New England Primer
Linwood	Rumney	2017	Cincinnati, Ohio	Poet	Baron	Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means”
Melissa	Range	2013	Columbia, MO	poet	Baron	research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator"
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)
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
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
Aubrey	Wertheim	1996	Oberlin, Ohio	playwright	Artist	A Full Length One Woman Show about Fanny Fern, the First Female American Columnist
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

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