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
Ilyon	Woo	2004-5	Columbia University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Mother against Mother"
Martha	Rojas	2003-4	Stanford University	PhD candidate	NEMLA	Diplomatic Letters
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Linzy	Brekke	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Jill	Anderson	2003-4	Thomas Jefferson Foundation	assistant editor	Peterson	"Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
David	Hancock	2003-4	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	associate professor	ASECS	Oceans of Wine, Empires of Commerce: Madeira Wine and the Self-Organization of the Atlantic Market Economy, 1640-1815
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Shelby	Balik	2003-4	University of Wisconsin - Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Religious Frontier
Michael	Everton	2003-4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Reese	Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
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
Thomas	Brown	2003-4	University of South Carolina	associate professor	Peterson	The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War
Faye	Dudden	2003-4	Colgate University	professor	Tracy	The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870
Susan	Parrish	2003-4	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Botein	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
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
Eldrid	Herrington	2003-4	University College, Dublin	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation
Matthew	Clavin	2003-4	American University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Men of Color, to Arms!
Christopher	Lukasik	2003-4	Boston University	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850
Katherine	Preston	2003-4	College of William & Mary	associate professor	Peterson	Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Leon	Jackson	2003-4	University of South Carolina	assistant professor	Peterson	The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s
Erika	Gasser	2003-4	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1600-1700
Meredith	McGill	2003-4	Rutgers University	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral	Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States
Matthew	Pursell	2003-4	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780
Michael	Jarvis	2003-4	University of Rochester	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815
Ellen	Gilbert	2003-4	Rutgers University	independent scholar	Peterson	St. Wulstan Society Papers
Elizabeth	Hawley	2002-3	Georgia Institute of Technology	PhD candidate	Reese	American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890
Eliza	Richards	2002-3	Boston University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
Elisa	Tamarkin	2002-3	University of California, Santa Barbara	assistant professor	Sigety Family	American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865
John	Howe	2002-3	University of Minnesota	professor emeritus	American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies	The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston
Nick	Yablon	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
Jason	Opal	2002-3	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Legacy	Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830
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
Steven	Harthorn	2002-3	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	PhD candidate	Stephen Botein	James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851
Ethan	Robey	2002-3	State University of New York at Binghamton	independent scholar	American Historical Print Collectors	The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Robert	Gross	2002-3	College of William and Mary	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Transcendentalist and Their World
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Ann	Johnson	2002-3	Fordham University	assistant professor	Stephen Botein	Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Bridget	Ford	2002-3	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow	American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870
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
Daniel	Mandell	2002-3	Truman State University	assistant professor	Joyce Tracy	Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880.
James	Sidbury	2002-3	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow	Conceptions of Africa in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830
Honor	Sachs	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry
Sargent	Bush Jr.	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice
Glenn	Hendler	2002-3	University of Notre Dame	associate professor	Northeast Modern Language Association	Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'

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