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 |
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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 |