NavigationDirectory 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 | Date | Institution | Rank |
Fellowship Awarded |
Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather | Nathans | 1998-99 | Tufts University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Avoiding Party Matters: The Boston Theatre Rivalriesof the 1790's |
| James Rixey | Ruffin | 1998-99 | Delaware | Ph.D. Candidate | Peterson | William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Religion, 1783-1800 |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
| Kevin | Butterfield | 2017-18 | University of Oklahoma | associate professor | Peterson | The Great Excitement |
| Emahunn | Campbell | 2013-14 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Construction of the Black Criminal |
| Catherine | Kelly | 1999-00 | University of Oklahoma | assistant professor | Peterson | Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic |
| Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Karen | Halttunen | 1995-96 | UC Davis | professor | Peterson | Jacob's Pillows: Natural History and Memory in the Making of New England |
| JoAnne | Thomas | 2000-1 | Western Michigan University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 1997-98 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Nation of Speechiers: Oratory, Print, and the Making of Gendered American Public, 1780-1850 |
| Susan | Ryan | 1997-98 | UNC, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race and the Language Benevolence in Antebellum America |
| Gloria | Whiting | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England |
| Claudia | Bushman | 1991-92 | independent scholar | Peterson | America Discovers Columbus | |
| Jean | Silver-Isenstadt | 1995-96 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Pure Pleasure: The Shared Life and Work of Mary S Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols in American Health Reform |
| Dexter | Gabriel | 2017-18 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Peterson | Performing Freedom in the Mighty Experiment |
| Ryan | Carr | 2013-14 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890 |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
| Phillip | Troutman | 1997-98 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | Geographies of Family and Market: Enslaved Migration in Antebellum Virginia and Washington, DC |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| William | van Arragon | 2000-01 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892 |
| Elizabeth | Bethel | 1985-86 | Lander University | associate professor | Peterson | Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation |
| Michael | Joseph | 1997-98 | Rutgers University | librarian | Peterson | McLoughlin Bros, 1858-1878 |
| Abby | Goode | 2017-18 | Plymouth State University | assistant professor | Peterson | Democratic Demographics: a Literary Genealogy of American Sustainability |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Andrew | Fagal | 2013-14 | Binghamton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic |
| Kathryn | Mudgett | 1999-00 | Northeastern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea |
| Jonathan | Cook | 1998-99 | Peterson | The Apocalyptic Imagination in the American Renaissance | ||
| Katherine | Preston | 1985-86 | CUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1830-65 |
| Russell | Handsman | 1993-94 | Litchfield, CT | independent scholar | Peterson | Challenging the Silences in New England History: John Milton Earle and the Indian People of Massachusetts |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Louis | Masur | 1998-99 | City College of New York | professor | Peterson | The American Republic in 1831 |
| Julie | Winch | 1987-88 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | assistant professor | Peterson | American Free Black and Emigration to Haiti in the 1820's |
| Janice | Simon | 1993-94 | University of Georgia | assistant professor | Peterson | The Forest Interior in American Painting, 1840-00 |
| Kathleen | Hilliard | 2017-18 | Iowa State University | associate professor | Peterson | Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860-1867 |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Brenton | Grom | 2013-14 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas | Bonneau | 2015-16 | University of Notre Dame | PhD candidate | Peterson | Unspeakable Loss: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1765 |
| Katherine | Preston | 1986-87 | CUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1830-65. |
| Karen | Hansen | 1988-89 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Social Dimension of Laborers' Lives, 1810-60 |
| Linford | Fisher | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775" |
| Paul | Erickson | 1998-99 | University of Texas, Austin | PhD candidate | Peterson | Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the American City-Mysteries Novel, 1840-1860 |
| Scott | Sandage | 1993-94 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Deadbeats, Drunkards, and Dreamers: The Problem of Failure in Nineteenth Century America |
| Carol | Faulkner | 2014-15 | Syracuse University | Associate Professor of History | Peterson | The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Nancy | Newman | 1997-98 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in the United States, 1848-1854 |
| Patrick | O'Connor | 2017-18 | University of Montana | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | The Health of the State: Tobacco and the Paradox of Public Power, 1862-1933 |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Nicholas | Guyatt | 2013-14 | University of York, UK | assistant professor | Peterson | The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of 'separate but equal' |
| Robert | Wright | 1999-00 | Temple University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Early American Finance: Revolution, Integration, Expansion |
