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	Date	Institution	Rank	Fellowship Awarded	Title of Project
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
Honor	Sachs	2002-3	University of Wisconsin, Madison	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry
Jill	Lepore	1993-94	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Commemorating Cruelty: Writing and Remembering King Philip's War, 1675-76
Katherine	Preston	2003-4	College of William & Mary	associate professor	Peterson	Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
Mary	McCarl	1987-88	Boston University	PhD candidate	Peterson	More Confessions of Thomas Shepard's Cambridge Parishioners, 1648-49
Michael	Sappol	1996-97	Columbia University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Singing the Body Electric
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
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
Michael	Winship	1989-90	University of Texas, Austin	editor	Peterson	Publishers Trade Sales in the Nineteeth Century United States
Michael	Carlebach	1986-87	University of Miami	assistant professor	Peterson	The Origins of Photojournalism in America, 1839-80
John	Shufelt	2017-18	Brown University	visiting associate professor	Peterson	Newspaper Accounts of the Coolie Slave Trade
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Christopher	Grasso	1999-00	College of William and Mary	associate professor	Peterson	Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century
Matthew	Pursell	2003-4	Brown University	PhD candidate	Peterson	English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780
Claire	Gherini	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Mary	Kelley	1990-91	Dartmouth College	professor	Peterson	Achieving Authority: Women in Public in Early America
Christopher	Apap	2012-13	Oakland University	special lecturer	Peterson	The Genius of the Place
Bret	Carroll	1997-98	University of Texas, Arlington	visiting assistant professor	Peterson	Religion and Masculinity in Antebellum America
Elisabeth	Nichols	1997-98	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	Pray Don't Tell Anybody That I Write Politics': Private Reflections and Public Admonitions in the Early Republic
Carol	Singley	1997-98	Rutgers University	associate professor	Peterson	Adoption in American Literature and Culture
Nancy	Siegel	2017-18	Towson University	professor	Peterson	Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
Catherine	Haulman	1999-00	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Burton	Bledstein	1988-89	University of Illinois, Chicago	associate professor	Peterson	A Language Event: The Middle Classes in American History, 1828-19
Colin	McCoy	1998-99	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	Partisans and Pamphleteers: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1820-1845
Robert F.	Forrant	2001-02	University of Massachusetts, Lowell	Associate Professor	Peterson	Manufacturer to Industrial America: Worcester-area Machine Tool Firms and Skill, 1830-1875
Michel	Fabre	1991-92	University of Paris III	professor	Peterson	The Creoles of Color: Cultural Production as a Basis of Group Identity
Holly	Heinzer	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Scott	Casper	1990-91	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Cultural and Literary Contexts of Antebellum Campaign Biography and Children's Biography
Todd	Thompson	2017-18	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	associate professor	Peterson	Savage Laughter: Nineteenth-Century Humor and the South Seas
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Catherine	Allgor	1995-96	Yale	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832
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
Seth	Cotlar	1997-98	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Peterson	In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803
Joseph	Rainer	1995-96	University of Mississippi	visiting instructor	Peterson	Peddler Folklore in Southern Almanacs
Graham	Hodges	1999-00	Colgate University	professor	Peterson	David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Julien	Mauduit	2011-12	Universite du Quebec a Montreal	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials
Scott E.	Gac	2001-02	University of New York	Ph.D. Candidate	Peterson	The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Antebellum Reform
GeneviŠve	Fabre-Moreau	1991-92	University of Paris VII	professor	Peterson	Afro-American Feasts and Celebrations in the United States
Benjamin	Irvin	2000-1	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress
Catherine	Kelly	1987-88	University of Rochester	PhD candidate	Peterson	Mothers and Daughters: Intergenerational Conflict and Continuity, 1820-39
Barbara	Wojtusik	1993-94	Bristol, CT, Eastern High School	teacher	Peterson	The Somers Mutiny

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