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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | Luck | 2012-13 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825 |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Derrick | Spires | 2008-9 | Vanderbilt University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
| Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America |
| Brian | Luskey | 2003-4 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
| Jessica | Linker | 2012-13 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | 'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860 |
| Richard | Stillson | 2000-1 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| 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 |
| Aston | Gonzalez | 2011-12 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Whitney | Martinko | 2009-10 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860 |
| Caitlin | Rosenthal | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Botein | Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Angela | George | 2007-8 | University of Maryland | PhD candidate | Last | "The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893" |
| Holly | Heinzer | 2000-1 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850 |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
| Allison | Stagg | 2009-10 | University College, University of London | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
| Kristen | Highland | 2012-13 | New York University | PhD candidate | Botein | At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Laura | Schiavo | 1999-00 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class |
| Sarah | Gould | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | "Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games." |
| William | van Arragon | 2000-1 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892 |
| Mark | Mattes | 2009-10 | University of Iowa | PhD candidate | Botein | Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings |
| Steven | Smith | 2011-12 | University of Missouri | PhD candidate | Reese | A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830 |
| Mikki | Smith | 2012-13 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890 |
| Maura | D'Amore | 2007-8 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | "Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | TRUE | "Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825" |
| Joseph | Cullon | 2000-1 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Work of Many Hands: Ships and the Economic Culture of Early New England |
| Rachel | Lin | 2002-3 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807 |
| 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 |
| Sarah | Keyes | 2010-11 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Peterson | Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900 |
| Christine | DeLucia | 2011-12 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78) |
| Alpen | Razi | 2012-13 | University of Toronto | PhD candidate | Legacy | Colored Citizens of the World |
| Sarah | Roth | 2000-1 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture |
| Martha | Rojas | 2003-4 | Stanford University | PhD candidate | NEMLA | Diplomatic Letters |
| Anne | Roth-Reinhardt | 2010-11 | University of Minnesota | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction |
| Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
| 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 |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Michael | Simoncelli | 1999-00 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | Becoming Northern: The Clash of Regional Cultures and the Creation of a Northern Identity in Ohio, 1770-1877 |
| 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 |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Benjamin | Irvin | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress |
| Jason | Opal | 2002-3 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
