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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | Jones | 2007-8 | Ohio University | assistant professor | Peterson | The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement |
| Claudia | Bushman | 1991-92 | independent scholar | Peterson | America Discovers Columbus | |
| Kathryn | Koo | 2005-6 | Saint Mary's College of California | assistant professor | Peterson | In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery |
| 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 |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Stephen | Berry | 2015-16 | Simmons College | associate professor | Peterson | Importing the Exotic: Early American Maritime Encounters with World Religions |
| 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 |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
| Lincoln | Mullen | 2013-14 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Varieties of Religious Conversion |
| Elizabeth | Bethel | 1985-86 | Lander University | associate professor | Peterson | Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Michael | Joseph | 1997-98 | Rutgers University | librarian | Peterson | McLoughlin Bros, 1858-1878 |
| Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| 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 |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| Sean | Trainor | 2013-14 | Pennsylvania State University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body |
| Louis | Masur | 1998-99 | City College of New York | professor | Peterson | The American Republic in 1831 |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Julie | Winch | 1987-88 | University of Massachusetts, Boston | assistant professor | Peterson | American Free Black and Emigration to Haiti in the 1820's |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Janice | Simon | 1993-94 | University of Georgia | assistant professor | Peterson | The Forest Interior in American Painting, 1840-00 |
| Elise | Lemire | 1994-95 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Discourses of Miscegenation in United States, 1800-1865 |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Charles | Hanson | 1991-92 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | From the Quebec Act to the French Alliance:Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| 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 |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum 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 |
| Anthony | Szczesiul | 2005-6 | University of Massachusetts - Lowell | associate professor | Peterson | Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction |
| Jill | Lepore | 1993-94 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Commemorating Cruelty: Writing and Remembering King Philip's War, 1675-76 |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Mary | McCarl | 1987-88 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | More Confessions of Thomas Shepard's Cambridge Parishioners, 1648-49 |
| Joseph | Bonica | 2009-10 | Middle Tennessee State University | visiting assistant professor | Peterson | Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Michael | Sappol | 1996-97 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Singing the Body Electric |
| Christopher | Florio | 2014-15 | Princeton University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1877 |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War |
| Michael | Winship | 1989-90 | University of Texas, Austin | editor | Peterson | Publishers Trade Sales in the Nineteeth Century United States |
