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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | Silverman | 2005-6 | George Washington University | assistant professor | ASECS | Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race |
| Kathryn | Koo | 2005-6 | Saint Mary's College of California | assistant professor | Peterson | In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery |
| Kenneth | Banks | 2005-6 | University of North Carolina, Asheville | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800 |
| Lydia | Fisher | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | lecturer | NEMLA | Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation |
| Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
| 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 |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Patricia | Crain | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD. Candidate | Reese | Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860 |
| Coleman | Hutchison | 2005-6 | Northwestern University | PhD. Candidate | Botein | Occasioning Verse and Volume |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Sara | Crosby | 2005-6 | University of Notre Dame | Ph.D. candidate | AAS-NEH | The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860 |
| Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
| Michael | Cohen | 2005-6 | New York University | PhD. Candidate | Tracy | Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915 |
| Ross | Barrett | 2005-6 | Boston University | PhD. Candidate | Drawn to Art | Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture |
| Anthony | Szczesiul | 2005-6 | University of Massachusetts - Lowell | associate professor | Peterson | Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction |
| Catherine | Manegold | 2005-6 | Emory University | professor | AAS-NEH | In an Office Built by Slaves |
| Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
| first | last | 2005-6 | institution | rank | fellowship | title |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| Sara | Fanning | 2004-5 | University of Texas at Austin | Ph.D. candidate | Tracy | "The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830" |
| Katherine | Hijar | 2004-5 | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | "Sex, Violence, and Sport in American Popular Print Culture, 1820-1880" |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2004-5 | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic" |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Jeffrey | Pasley | 2004-5 | University of Missouri - Columbia | associate professor | ASECS | "Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828" |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| Cornelia | Dayton | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Self and Sanity in Early New England" |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| James | Secord | 2004-5 | University of Cambridge | professor | Botein | "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
| Christopher | Lukasik | 2004-5 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | "Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850" |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2004-5 | Rutgers University | Ph.D. candidate | Botein | "Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project" |
| Ilyon | Woo | 2004-5 | Columbia University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Mother against Mother" |
| Martha | McNamara | 2004-5 | University of Maine | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850" |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Kathleen | Lawrence | 2004-5 | Boston University | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism" |
| Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
| Martha | Rojas | 2004-5 | Sweet Briar College | AAS-NEH | "Diplomatic Letters" | |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Robb | Haberman | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | Ph.D. candidate | Legacy | "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America" |
| Peter | Baldwin | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Tracy | "American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930" |
| Manisha | Sinha | 2004-5 | University of Massachusetts | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865" |
