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 | Ellis | 2011 | Cincinnati, OH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" |
| Nancy | Bowen | 2012 | Brooklyn, NY | artist, mixed media | Jay and Deborah Last | research for series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" |
| Stephanie | Wolff | 2013 | Norwich, VT | artist, visual | Jay and Deborah Last | research for a suite of artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of anna Blackwood Howell |
| Meganne | Fabrega | 2014 | Portsmouth, NH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for book title "Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls." Book will blend woman's history, art history, LGTB history, biography, and memoir |
| Sarah | McCoubrey | 2007 | Fayetteville, NY | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc. |
| Janet | Pritchard | 2008 | Mansfield Center, CT | photographier | Jay and Deborah Last | Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2012-13 | Lafayette College | assistant professor | Lapides | The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850 |
| Margaret | Abruzzo | 2013-14 | University of Alabama | associate professor | Lapides | Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin and Moral Responsibility |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Patricia | Johnston | 2007-8 | Salem State College | professor | Last | "Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants" |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2008-9 | University of Texas | assistant professor | Last | "Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." |
| Annie | Bissett | 2015 | Northampton, MA | printmaker | Last | research for a project about the spirituality/religiosity of American national identity |
| Michael | Komanecky | 2007-8 | independent scholar | Last | "Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions" | |
| Sarah | Gould | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | "Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games." |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
| Wendy | Katz | 2008-9 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Last | "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862." |
| Mary | Zundo | 2007-8 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Last | "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier" |
| Daniel | Lewis | 2010-11 | Northern Virginia Community College | assistant professor | Last | The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861 |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| Patricia | Roylance | 2008-9 | Syracuse University | assistant professor | Last | "Eclipse of Empire." |
| Nancy | Siegel | 2008-9 | Juniata College | assistant professor | Last | "Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints." |
| Joseph | Stubenrauch | 2008-9 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Last | "Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution." |
| Maurizio | Valsania | 2007-8 | University of Torino, Italy | associate professor | Last | The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828 |
| Jessica | Linker | 2012-13 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | 'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860 |
| Sarah | Carter | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Last | "Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Joanna | Cohen | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Last | "'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876" |
| Joanna | Frang | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Last | "Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830" |
| Angela | George | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Last | "The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893" |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Jennifer | Hughes | 2007-8 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Last | "Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900" |
| Adam | Thomas | 2013-14 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Legacy | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
| 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 |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| Allison | Malcom | 2008-9 | University of Illinois-Chicago | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870." |
| Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
| Robb | Haberman | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | Ph.D. candidate | Legacy | "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America" |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Matthew | Hale | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Matthew | Bahar | 2010-11 | University of Oklahoma | PhD candidate | Legacy | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Elizabeth | Reis | 1999-00 | University of Oregon | adjunct assistant professor | Legacy | Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions |
| Alpen | Razi | 2012-13 | University of Toronto | PhD candidate | Legacy | Colored Citizens of the World |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Robert | Gross | 2002-3 | College of William and Mary | professor | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Transcendentalist and Their World |
| John | Demos | 2011-12 | Yale University | Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic |
| Christopher | Castiglia | 2012-13 | Pennsylvania State University | Liberal Arts Research Professor of English | Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence | The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions |
| 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 |
