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
Lynn	Thomson	2013	New York, NY	dramaturg, theater director	Baron	research for for play tittled "The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls"
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
Heidi	Durrow	2007	Los Angeles, CA	fiction writer	Baron	research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era
Holly	Wendt	2014	Casper, WY	novelist	Baron	research for novel about Capt Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, set between 1714-1716
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
Charles	Clark	1985-86	University of New Hampshire	professor emeritus	Boni	The Public Prints: An Essay in Anglo-American JournalisticOrigins
Michael	Hackenberg	1986-87	University of Chicago	assistant professor	Boni	The Subscription Publishing Phenomenon; William Still's Selling of The Underground Railroad in Philadelphia; The Firm of Deming and Francis in Wethersfield, Conn; The Career of Robert Sears of New York
Robert	Winans	1984-85	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Boni	Checklist of Catalogues of Books printed in 18th-century American Newspapers
Richard	Simmons	1982-83	Birmingham College	reader	Boni	British Imprints Relating to North America, 1621-1760
Ronald	Labuz	1991-92	Mohawk Valley Community College	professor	Boni	American Graphic Design, 1830-70
Ronald	Zboray	1983-84	Pace	Adjunct Professor in social science	Boni	A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the Reading Public for American Novels, 1837-57
Lewis	Leary	1980-81	University of North Carolina	William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor	Boni	Lectures in the United States, 1783-1829
Isabelle	Lehuu	1988-89	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Boni	The New Readers in Antebellum America
Robert	St George	1981-82	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Boni	Popular Literature and Reading in Massachusetts, 1640-1720
Gregory	Nobles	1991-92	Georgia Institute of Technology	associate professor	Boni	Straight Lines and Stability: The Imposition of Order on the Early American Frontier
Sherry	Sullivan	1987-88	Universit of Alabama, Birmingham	assistant professor	Boni	Noble Savage Iconography in 19th Century Giftbooks
John	Canup	1990-91	Texas A&M University	assistant professor	Boni	New England Culture and the Pacific
James	Green	1986-87	Library Company of Philadelphia	associate librarian	Boni	The Book Distribution Network of Mathew Carey, 1785-1820
Menahem	Blondheim	1987-88	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Boni	The News Frontier
Richard	Stillson	2000-01	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Susan	Williams	1997-98	Ohio State University	associate professor	Botein	Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Lynda	Yankaskas	2007-8	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Botein	"Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851"
Bernell	Tripp	1991-92	University of Alabama	PhD candidate	Botein	The Nineteenth-Century Black Press
Jen	Huntley-Smith	1998-99	University of Nevada, Reno	PhD candidate	Botein	The Genius ofCivilization': The Publishing Industry and the Creation of WesternRegional Identity,1848-00
Anne	Baker	1999-00	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Botein	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
Lara	Cohen	2008-9	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Botein	"Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature."
Mark	Peterson	1999-00	University of Iowa	assistant professor	Botein	The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
Jim	Casey	2015-16	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Botein	Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849
Betsy	Klimasmith	2008-9	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Botein	"Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction."
Faith	Barrett	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Hannah	Carlson	2006-7	Boston University	PhD candidate	Botein	In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
Lynn	Casmier-Paz	2009-10	University of Central Florida	associate professor	Botein	Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education
Thora	Brylowe	2017-18	University of Colorado, Boulder	assistant professor	Botein	Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper
Mark	Mattes	2009-10	University of Iowa	PhD candidate	Botein	Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
Clare	Mullaney	2017-18	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858-1932
Daniel	Cohen	1992-93	Florida International University	assistant professor	Botein	Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Kathleen	Walkup	2014-15	Mills College	Professor of Book Arts	Botein	Printing at the Margins
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city
T.J.	Tomlin	2010-11	University of Northern Colorado	assistant professor	Botein	A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
Scott	McLaren	2012-13	York University	associate professor	Botein	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
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
Coleman	Hutchison	2005-6	Northwestern University	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Occasioning Verse and Volume
John	Evelev	1996-97	Duke University	recent PhD	Botein	Tolerable Entertainment:' Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York
Ann	Fabian	1994-95	Yale University	associate professor	Botein	Selling Experience: Amateur Authors and Pamphlet Publication inthe Nineteenth-Century US
Joseph	Rezek	2015-16	Boston University	assistant professor	Botein	Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
David	Nord	1996-97	University of Indiana, Bloomington	professor	Botein	The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860

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