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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter | Woodward | 1997-98 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Magic in Colonization: Religion, Science and the Occult in the Creation of New England Culture |
| Marco | Marin | 2013-14 | University of Trieste | postdoctural fellow | Peterson | The Political Catechisms for Schools and Children in the United State (1790-1850) |
| Andrew | Lewis | 2000-1 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Antiques of State: Archaeology in Early Republican America |
| Colin | McCoy | 1998-99 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Peterson | Partisans and Pamphleteers: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1820-1845 |
| Helena | Ifeka | 1999-00 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Parkman Relations |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| W | Lhamon | 1998-99 | Florida State University | George M. Harper professor | Peterson | Jump Jim Crow: Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture |
| Lincoln | Mullen | 2013-14 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Varieties of Religious Conversion |
| Michael | Bellesiles | 1992-93 | Emory University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840 |
| Michael | Joseph | 1997-98 | Rutgers University | librarian | Peterson | McLoughlin Bros, 1858-1878 |
| Krystyn | Moon | 2000-1 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920 |
| Joseph | Rainer | 1995-96 | University of Mississippi | visiting instructor | Peterson | Peddler Folklore in Southern Almanacs |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Jonathan | Cook | 1998-99 | Peterson | The Apocalyptic Imagination in the American Renaissance | ||
| William | Ward | 1987-88 | University of Durham | professor emeritus | Peterson | An International History ofthe Great Awakening |
| Kelly | Wisecup | 2014-15 | University of North Texas | Assistant Professor of English | Peterson | Objects of Encounter |
| 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 |
| Catherine | Kelly | 1999-00 | University of Oklahoma | assistant professor | Peterson | Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Yan | Li | 1986-87 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Transformation of the Massachusetts Constitution, 1780-1860 |
| April | Alliston | 1994-95 | Princeton | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper |
| Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
| JoAnne | Thomas | 2000-1 | Western Michigan University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War |
| Pamela | Schirmeister | 1994-95 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Jonathon | Booth | 2016-17 | Harvard University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | Criminal Law and Post-Emancipation Society in the Atlantic World |
| Karen | Hansen | 1988-89 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Social Dimension of Laborers' Lives, 1810-60 |
| Kathryn | Mudgett | 1999-00 | Northeastern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Dana, Melville, Justice Story, and the Law and Literature of the Sea |
| 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 |
| Gillian | Avery | 1985-86 | author | Peterson | The American Pattern of Childhood | |
| William | van Arragon | 2000-01 | Indiana University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892 |
| Benjamind | Bascom | 2014-15 | University of IL, Urbana-Champaign | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early United States |
| Martin | Burke | 1994-95 | University College, Galway, Ireland | lecturer | Peterson | Signs of the Cross: Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700-00 |
| Candice | Harrison | 2006-7 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859 |
| Sonia | Di Loreto | 2016-17 | University of Torino | associate professor | Peterson | Margaret Fuller’s Transnational Archive |
| Charles | Hanson | 1991-92 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | From the Quebec Act to the French Alliance:Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England |
| 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 |
| Jonathan | Gross | 2007-8 | DePaul University | professor | Peterson | "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings" |
| Steven | Stoll | 1998-99 | Yale University | assistant professor | Peterson | Larding the Lean Earth: Agriculture and he Environment in America, 1800-1850 |
| Martha | Burns | 1993-94 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860 |
| Natasha | Lightfoot | 2006-7 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858 |
| Todd | Carmody | Harvard University | lecturer | Peterson | Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America | |
| Robert | Wright | 1999-00 | Temple University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Early American Finance: Revolution, Integration, Expansion |
| David | Nord | 1986-87 | University of Indiana, Bloomington | associate professor | Peterson | Journalism and Cities in American History |
| Nancy | Isenberg | 2007-8 | University of Tulsa | associate professor | Peterson | Dirty Politics in Early America |
| Molly | Berger | 1993-94 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29 |
| Mary | Kelley | 1990-91 | Dartmouth College | professor | Peterson | Achieving Authority: Women in Public in Early America |
| RJ | Boutelle | 2014-15 | Vanderbil University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism |
