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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 2009-10 | SUNY Fredonia | associate professor | TRUE | The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865 |
| Martha | Rojas | 2004-5 | Sweet Briar College | AAS-NEH | "Diplomatic Letters" | |
| Patricia | Roylance | 2008-9 | Syracuse University | assistant professor | Last | "Eclipse of Empire." |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
| Britt | Rusert | 2011-12 | Temple University | postdoc fellow | Peterson | Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery |
| Robert | Wright | 1999-00 | Temple University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Early American Finance: Revolution, Integration, Expansion |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Joshua | Brown | 2011-12 | The Graduate Center, City University of New York | executive director | Drawn-to-Art | Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War |
| Jennifer | Wilson | 2009-10 | The Graduate Center, The City University of New York | PhD candidate | Peterson | Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de |
| Jennifer | Pierce | 2009-10 | The University of Iowa | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries |
| Kelly | Ross | 2009-10 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Sarah | Arndt | 2010-11 | Trinity College, University of Dublin | PhD candidate | Reese | The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825 |
| Daniel | Mandell | 2012-13 | Truman State University | professor | TRUE | The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870 |
| Daniel | Mandell | 2002-3 | Truman State University | assistant professor | Joyce Tracy | Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880. |
| Radiclani | Clytus | 2009-10 | Tufts University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual |
| Aaron | Marrs | 2010-11 | U.S. Department of State | historian | Peterson | Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution |
| Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
| Julien | Mauduit | 2011-12 | Universite du Quebec a Montreal | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials |
| Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
| Eldrid | Herrington | 2003-4 | University College, Dublin | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
| Natasha | Hurley | 2008-9 | University of Alberta | postdoctoral fellow | ASECS | "The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe." |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2003-4 | University of Arkansas | assistant professor | Peterson | Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | TRUE | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Gustavo | Paz | 2009-10 | University of Buenos Aires | associate professor | Peterson | News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825) |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| William | Wagner | 2006-7 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Legacy | Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865 |
| Hannah | Farber | 2011-12 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic |
| Bridget | Ford | 2002-3 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870 |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| Alan | Taylor | 2000-1 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1999-00 | University of California, Davis | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock |
| Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
| Jessica | Collier | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America |
| Arden | Stern | 2009-10 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface |
| Eric | Altice | 2000-1 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Reese | Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America |
| Kariann | Yokota | 1999-00 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation, 1789-1830 |
| Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
| Elisa | Tamarkin | 2002-3 | University of California, Santa Barbara | assistant professor | Sigety Family | American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 |
| Meredith | Bak | 2010-11 | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| James | Secord | 2004-5 | University of Cambridge | professor | Botein | "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" |
| Lynn | Casmier-Paz | 2009-10 | University of Central Florida | associate professor | Botein | Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Nick | Yablon | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | AAS-NEH | American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
