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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph | Adelman | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Botein | "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" |
| Daniel | Cohen | 2007-8 | Case Western Reserve University | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America |
| James | Kabala | 2007-8 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Legacy | "A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Lisa | Gitelman | 2007-8 | Catholic University | associate professor | Last | "Early Photographs of Words Backwards" |
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement" |
| Lynda | Yankaskas | 2007-8 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Botein | "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851" |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2007-8 | University of Toronto | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War |
| Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
| Heidi | Durrow | 2007 | Los Angeles, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era |
| Sarah | McCoubrey | 2007 | Fayetteville, NY | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research to create "Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter", a fictive archive consisting of photographs, artifacts, letter, etc. |
| Laurie | Block | 2007 | Conway, MA | filmmaker, documentary | Hearst | research for documentary about Helen Keller |
| Kimberly | Elkins | 2007 | New York, NY | fiction writer | Hearst | research for novel set from 1829-1876 about the lives of Laura Bridgman, Julia Ward Howe, and Sara Wright |
| Gino | DiIorio | 2007 | New York, NY | playwright | Baron | research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment |
| Joanne | van der Woude | 2006-7 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Reese | Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century |
| Faith | Barrett | 2006-7 | Lawrence University | assistant professor | Botein | 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
| Edward | Larkin | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Loyalist Origins of United States Culture |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
| Hannah | Carlson | 2006-7 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Botein | In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| Seth | Rockman | 2006-7 | Brown University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| 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 |
| Nancy | Shoemaker | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | professor | AAS-NEH | The Whaling History of New England Indians |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Kristina | Hinz-Bode | 2006-7 | University of Kassel | assistant professor | Ebeling | America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Kenneth | Cohen | 2006-7 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | AHPCS | 'To Give Good Sport': The Making and Meaning of Sporting Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840 |
| Natasha | Lightfoot | 2006-7 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858 |
| Katja | Kanzler | 2006-7 | Leipzig University | associate lecturer | Ebeling | Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing |
| 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 |
| John | McCurdy | 2006-7 | Eastern Michigan University | assistant professor | ASECS | The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America |
| Gabriel | Loiacono | 2006-7 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888 |
| Nicholas | Wrightson | 2006-7 | Jesus College, Oxford University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | "Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65" |
| William | Wagner | 2006-7 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Legacy | Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865 |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2006-7 | New York University | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825 |
| Catherine | Thompson | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850 |
| Hilary | Wyss | 2006-7 | Auburn University | associate professor | ASECS | Native Literacy and Education in Early America |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Robert | Bonner | 2006-7 | Dartmouth College | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty |
| Dawn | Coleman | 2006-7 | University of Tennessee | assistant professor | NEMLA | Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Joshua | Rothman | 2005-6 | University of Alabama | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| David | Anthony | 2005-6 | SIU Carbondale | assistant professor | NEMLA | Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism |
| Matthew | Wittmann | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century |
| Jennifer Ann | Greenhill | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906 |
