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
Tess	Taylor	2006	Hofstra	Adjunct Professor	Baron	Book of poems titled The Family Chest
Robert	Shuster	2006	Yorktown Heights, NY	Writer	Baron	America's culture of war and the military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for his non-fiction book The Indestructible Soldier
Lynn	Thomson	2013	New York, NY	dramaturg, theater director	Baron	research for for play tittled "The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls"
R.	Sikoryak	2006	New York, NY	Cartoonist	Baron	Comic Strip Adaptation of Moby Dick
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
James	Green	1986-87	Library Company of Philadelphia	associate librarian	Boni	The Book Distribution Network of Mathew Carey, 1785-1820
John	Canup	1990-91	Texas A&M University	assistant professor	Boni	New England Culture and the Pacific
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
Menahem	Blondheim	1987-88	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Boni	The News Frontier
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
Ronald	Labuz	1991-92	Mohawk Valley Community College	professor	Boni	American Graphic Design, 1830-70
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
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
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
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Thora	Brylowe	2017-18	University of Colorado, Boulder	assistant professor	Botein	Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper
Jim	Casey	2015-16	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Botein	Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Clare	Mullaney	2017-18	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858-1932
Alice	Fahs	1995-96	UC Irvine	assistant professor	Botein	Publishing the Civil War: Northern Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of War.
Lynda	Yankaskas	2007-8	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Botein	"Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851"
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Katy	Chiles	2014-15	University of Tennessee	Assistant Professor of English	Botein	Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature
James	Green	1989-90	Library Company of Philadelphia	associate librarian	Botein	The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825
Susan	Parrish	2003-4	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Botein	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
Ann	Fidler	1998-99	Ohio State University	assistant professor	Botein	A Cultural History of the American Law Book, 1700-00
Louise	Stevenson	2000-01	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Lara	Cohen	2008-9	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Botein	"Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature."
Richard	Stillson	2000-01	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Betsy	Klimasmith	2008-9	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Botein	"Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction."
Burton	Bledstein	1997-98	University of Illinois, Chicago	associate professor	Botein	By the Book': Reference and Information as Authority in 19th-century America
Faith	Barrett	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Lynn	Casmier-Paz	2009-10	University of Central Florida	associate professor	Botein	Slave literacy, children's textbooks, and antebellum education
Hannah	Carlson	2006-7	Boston University	PhD candidate	Botein	In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
Mark	Mattes	2009-10	University of Iowa	PhD candidate	Botein	Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
Anne	Baker	1999-00	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Botein	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
Mark	Peterson	1999-00	University of Iowa	assistant professor	Botein	The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
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
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Joseph	Rezek	2015-16	Boston University	assistant professor	Botein	Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
T.J.	Tomlin	2010-11	University of Northern Colorado	assistant professor	Botein	A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city
David	Nord	1996-97	University of Indiana, Bloomington	professor	Botein	The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860

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