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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
| Meredith | McGill | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | associate professor | Mellon Postdoctoral | Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States |
| Hugh | McIntosh | 2010-11 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| 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 |
| Martha | McNamara | 2004-5 | University of Maine | associate professor | AAS-NEH | "New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850" |
| Rebecca | McNulty | 2003-4 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Peterson | Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Peter | Messer | 2007-8 | Mississippi State University | assistant professor | ASECS | "Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America" |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
| Lyra | Monteiro | 2009-10 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860 |
| Joycelyn | Moody | 2002-3 | Hamilton College | Chair, Women's Studies | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy |
| Krystyn | Moon | 2000-1 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920 |
| Jo-Ann | Morgan | 2007-8 | Coastal Carolina University | assistant professor | Last | "Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" |
| Jessie | Morgan-Owens | 2012-13 | Nanyang Technological University | assistant professor | TRUE | Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition |
| Kathryn | Morse | 2007-8 | Middlebury College | associate professor | AHPCS | "The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images" |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Kathryn | Mudgett | 1999-00 | Northeastern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea |
| Kevin | Muller | 2008-9 | University of California at Berkeley | lecturer | Last | "An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900" |
| Laura | Murray | 2010-11 | Queen's University | associate professor | Tracy | What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| David | Narrett | 2001-2 | University of Texas at Arlington | associate professor | ASECS | Borderland Republics: Vermont, West Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union, 1760-1846 |
| Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
| 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 |
| Adam | Nelson | 2008-9 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | associate professor | TRUE | "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" |
| Megan | Nelson | 2008-9 | California State University, Fullerton | assistant professor | Last | "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War." |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | TRUE | "Letter and Spirit" |
| Lisa | Norwood | 2001-2 | Stanford University | graduate student | Morgan | Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860 |
| Mairin | Odle | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830 |
| Christopher | Oliver | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870 |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Nikos | Pappas | 2007-8 | University of Kentucky | PhD candidate | Reese | "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870) |
| Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
| Catherine | Parisian | 2008-9 | independent scholar | Reese | "A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney." | |
| Susan | Parrish | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | assistant professor | Botein | Colonial and Early National American Almanac |
| Jeffrey | Pasley | 2004-5 | University of Missouri - Columbia | associate professor | ASECS | "Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828" |
| Christopher | Pastore | 2010-11 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836 |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| Emily | Pawley | 2009-10 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | TRUE | 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860 |
| Gustavo | Paz | 2009-10 | University of Buenos Aires | associate professor | Peterson | News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825) |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Mark | Peterson | 1999-00 | University of Iowa | assistant professor | Botein | The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
