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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Leon | Jackson | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | assistant professor | Peterson | The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Linford | Fisher | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775" |
| Maria | Bollettino | 2005-6 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War |
| Natasha | Lightfoot | 2006-7 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858 |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
| Gabriel | Loiacono | 2006-7 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888 |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | "Dirty Politics in Early America" |
| Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| 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 |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Margaret | Nash | 2006-7 | University of California, Riverdale | assistant professor | Peterson | Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875 |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | "The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War" |
| Anthony | Szczesiul | 2005-6 | University of Massachusetts - Lowell | associate professor | Peterson | Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Eric | Stoykovich | 2006-7 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville | PhD candidate | Peterson | Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876 |
| Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Catherine | Thompson | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850 |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
