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
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
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
Allison	Stagg	2009-10	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
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.
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
Arden	Stern	2009-10	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
Alison	Klaum	2010-11	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Hugh	McIntosh	2010-11	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
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
Sarah	Beetham	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
Daegan	Miller	2010-11	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century 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
Justin	Clark	2012-13	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870
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
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
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
Jeffrey	Groves	2011-12	Harvey Mudd College	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
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
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Amber	LaPiana	2011-12	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Mapping Literary Regionalism
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
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
Mairin	Odle	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
Alexandra	Socarides	2012-13	University of Missouri	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
Brian	Valencia	2012-13	Yale University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Radiclani	Clytus	2009-10	Tufts University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Amy	Hughes	2009-10	Brooklyn College	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867
Nenette	Luarca-Shoaf	2009-10	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination
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
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
Jennifer	Pierce	2009-10	The University of Iowa	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries
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
Kelly	Ross	2009-10	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story
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
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city
Scott	McLaren	2012-13	York University	associate professor	Botein	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Susan	Parrish	2003-4	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Botein	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
Louise	Stevenson	2000-1	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Anne	Baker	1999-00	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Botein	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
Mark	Peterson	1999-00	University of Iowa	assistant professor	Botein	The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
Joseph	Adelman	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	"The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789"
Lynda	Yankaskas	2007-8	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Botein	"Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851"
Lara	Cohen	2008-9	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Botein	"Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature."
Betsy	Klimasmith	2008-9	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Botein	"Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction."

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