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
Linwood	Rumney	2017	Cincinnati, Ohio	Poet	Baron	Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means”
Amy	Brill	2005	Brooklyn, NY	writer	Baron	The Observations, a fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket
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
Catherine	Reid	2012	Asheville, NC	writer, essayist	Baron	research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Deborah	Brevoort	2012	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Baron	research for historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in the shaping of the American identity
Lewis	Leary	1980-81	University of North Carolina	William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor	Boni	Lectures in the United States, 1783-1829
Richard	Simmons	1982-83	Birmingham College	reader	Boni	British Imprints Relating to North America, 1621-1760
Robert	Winans	1984-85	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Boni	Checklist of Catalogues of Books printed in 18th-century American Newspapers
Isabelle	Lehuu	1988-89	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Boni	The New Readers in Antebellum America
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
Gregory	Nobles	1991-92	Georgia Institute of Technology	associate professor	Boni	Straight Lines and Stability: The Imposition of Order on the Early American Frontier
Menahem	Blondheim	1987-88	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Boni	The News Frontier
Robert	St George	1981-82	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Boni	Popular Literature and Reading in Massachusetts, 1640-1720
Charles	Clark	1985-86	University of New Hampshire	professor emeritus	Boni	The Public Prints: An Essay in Anglo-American JournalisticOrigins
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
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
Faith	Barrett	2013-14	Lawrence University	associate professor	Botein	Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Amy	Thomas	1990-91	Duke University	PhD candidate	Botein	Reading in the Antebellum South
Lindsay	DiCuirci	2013-14	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Botein	History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855
Daniel	Cohen	1992-93	Florida International University	assistant professor	Botein	Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860
Anne	Baker	1999-00	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Botein	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
Susan	Williams	1997-98	Ohio State University	associate professor	Botein	Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00
Mark	Peterson	1999-00	University of Iowa	assistant professor	Botein	The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
Bernell	Tripp	1991-92	University of Alabama	PhD candidate	Botein	The Nineteenth-Century Black Press
D. Berton	Emerson	2016-17	Pomona College	visiting assistant professor of English	Botein	Local Rules: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies in Antebellum Print Culture
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Justine	Oliva	2016-17	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	Anne C. L. Botta and the Business of Friendship
Lynda	Yankaskas	2007-8	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Botein	"Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851"
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
Jim	Casey	2015-16	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Botein	Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849
John	Evelev	1996-97	Duke University	recent PhD	Botein	Tolerable Entertainment:' Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York
Lara	Cohen	2008-9	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Botein	"Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature."
Ann	Fabian	1994-95	Yale University	associate professor	Botein	Selling Experience: Amateur Authors and Pamphlet Publication inthe Nineteenth-Century US
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
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
Alice	Fahs	1995-96	UC Irvine	assistant professor	Botein	Publishing the Civil War: Northern Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of War.
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
James	Green	1989-90	Library Company of Philadelphia	associate librarian	Botein	The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825
Mark	Mattes	2009-10	University of Iowa	PhD candidate	Botein	Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
Coleman	Hutchison	2005-6	Northwestern University	PhD. Candidate	Botein	Occasioning Verse and Volume
David	Nord	1996-97	University of Indiana, Bloomington	professor	Botein	The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860
Ann	Fidler	1998-99	Ohio State University	assistant professor	Botein	A Cultural History of the American Law Book, 1700-00
Thora	Brylowe	2017-18	University of Colorado, Boulder	assistant professor	Botein	Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America

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