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 |
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Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Adam | Gordon | 2011-12 | UCLA | Ph.D. in English | Hench | Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America |
Wendy | Bellion | 2011-12 | University of Delaware | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory |
Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
Lara | Cohen | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures |
Anne | Verplanck | 2011-12 | Penn State University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880 |
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 |
Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
Christine | DeLucia | 2011-12 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78) |
Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
Carolyn | Eastman | 2011-12 | University of Texas | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print |
Dominique | Zino | 2011-12 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James |
Britt | Rusert | 2011-12 | Temple University | postdoc fellow | Peterson | Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery |
Natalie | Deibel | 2011-12 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 |
Hannah | Farber | 2011-12 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic |
Michelle | Burnham | 2011-12 | Santa Clara University | professor | ASECS | The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific |
Jack | Larkin | 2011-12 | Clark University | affiliate professor | AAS-NEH | David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865 |
Joshua | Brown | 2011-12 | The Graduate Center, City University of New York | executive director | Drawn-to-Art | Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War |
Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
Carsten | Junker | 2011-12 | University of Bremen | assistant professor | Ebeling | Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates |
Kara | French | 2011-12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850 |
Cam | Terwilliger | 2011 | Somerville, MA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel, Yet Wilderness Grew in Our Hearts, set in northeastern colonies during the Frech and Indian War |
Kelle | Groom | 2011 | New Smyrna Beach, FL | poet | Hearst | research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA |
Mary Beth | Ellis | 2011 | Cincinnati, OH | non-fiction writer | Jay and Deborah Last | research for project involving PBS documentary currently under development by historan and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" |
Lisa | Hayes | 2011 | Bowie, MD | playwright | Baron | research on Colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm, a living history museum in Maryland |
Brian | Teare | 2011 | San Francisco, CA | poet | Hearst | research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism |
Meredith | Bak | 2010-11 | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture |
Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
Elizabeth | Dillon | 2010-11 | Northeastern University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World |
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 |
Gudrun | Löhrer | 2010-11 | John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin | visiting professor | Ebeling | A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century |
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 |
Jessica | Collier | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America |
Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
Daniel | Lewis | 2010-11 | Northern Virginia Community College | assistant professor | Last | The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861 |
Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
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 |
Elizabeth | Pryor | 2010-11 | Smith College | assistant professor | Peterson | The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840 |
Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
Glenda | Goodman | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids |
John | Coward | 2010-11 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | AHPCS | Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press |
Kyle | Volk | 2010-11 | University of Montana | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America |
Phillip | Troutman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials |
Adrian | Weimer | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England |
Kerin | Holt | 2010-11 | Utah State University | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S. |
James O. | Horton | 2010-11 | George Washington University | professor emeritus | Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence | A Documentary History of African Americans from 1619 to the Civil War |
Philip | Herrington | 2010-11 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860 |
David | Silverman | 2010-11 | George Washington University | associate professor | ASECS | Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America |
Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | AAS-NEH | Cinderella's Family |
Bryan | Curd | 2010-11 | Harrison Middleton University | tutor | Drawn-to-Art | Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850 |