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
Kimberly	Elkins	2007	New York, NY	fiction writer	Hearst	research for novel set from 1829-1876 about the lives of Laura Bridgman, Julia Ward Howe, and Sara Wright
Carolyn	Kras	2014	Los Angeles, CA	writer, screen (TV, theater, stage)	Hearst	research for TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire
Celeste	Roberge	2008	Gainesville, FL	sculptor	Hearst	research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture
Sarah	Stern	2014	Red Hook, NY	playwright	Hearst	research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
Sandra	Jackson-Opoku	2008	Chicago, IL	novelist	Hearst	God's Gift to the Natives, novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora
Ann	Lovett	2009	New Paltz, NY	photographer	Hearst	research for artists book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Mass mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
Robert	Strong	2009	Canton, NY	poet	Hearst	research for book-length work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War title "Bright Advent"
Kathryn	Nuernberger	2010	Glouster, OH	poet	Hearst	research for a collection of poems titled "Curiosities," which merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos
Sean	Hill	2010	Bemidji, MN	poet	Hearst	research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s
Kelle	Groom	2011	New Smyrna Beach, FL	poet	Hearst	research for memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
Brian	Teare	2011	San Francisco, CA	poet	Hearst	research for inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Anne	Harley	2012	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	Hearst	research for libretto about Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, and research of early American music to perform and record
Ansel	Elkins	2012	Greensboro, NC	poet	Hearst	research for book-length collection of poems about private lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Aimee	Parkison	2013	Charlotte, NC	fiction writer	Hearst	research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans
Laurie	Block	2007	Conway, MA	filmmaker, documentary	Hearst	research for documentary about Helen Keller
Amina	Gautier	2013	Chicago, IL	fiction writer	Hearst	research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island
Kerstin	Vogel	2005-6	University of Mainz	instructor	Ebeling	Looking-Glass Legacies—The Writings of William Apess
Katharina	Erhard	2004-5	University of Regensburg	Ph.D. candidate	Ebeling	‘An Empire in Many Respects the Most Interesting in the World’: Choreographies of Empire in Early American Plays
Bernd	Herzogenrath	2003-4	University of Cologne	researcher	Ebeling	Cotton Mather’s Conception of the Body
Karsten	Kummer	2002-3	University of Bremen	lecturer	Ebeling	Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations
Kristina	Hinz-Bode	2006-7	University of Kassel	assistant professor	Ebeling	America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature
Katja	Kanzler	2006-7	Leipzig University	associate lecturer	Ebeling	Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing
Birte	Christ	2012-13	Justus-Liebig-University Giessen	assistant professor	Ebeling	A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849
Andrea	Zittlau	2012-13	University of Rostock	research assistant	Ebeling	Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Carsten	Junker	2011-12	University of Bremen	assistant professor	Ebeling	Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates
Gudrun	Löhrer	2010-11	John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin	visiting professor	Ebeling	A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century
Alexandra	Ganser	2009-10	Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg	assistant professor	Ebeling	(Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900
Nicole	Waller	2007-8	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz)	junior professor	Ebeling	American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World
Kristina	Hinz-Bode	2007-8	University of Kassel	assistant professor	Ebeling	America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature
Juliane	Braun	2008-9	Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz	Ph.D. candidate	Ebeling	Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Sabine	Schindler	2008-9	Martin Luther Univeristy	Ph.D. candidate	Ebeling	Talk of the Nation: Public speaking, Cultural Performance, and the Negotiation of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, 1840-1880
Thomas	Clark	2005-6	University of Kassel	assistant professor	Ebeling	Toquevillian Moments: Transatlantic Visions of an American Republican Culture
Lauren	Klein	2013-14	GA Insitute of Technology	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-2013
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
April	Masten	2001-2		visiting assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	The Work of Art
Kathleen	Lawrence	2004-5	Boston University	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism"
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Christopher	Lukasik	2003-4	Boston University	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850
Sarah	Roth	2000-1	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Joshua	Brown	2011-12	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	executive director	Drawn-to-Art	Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War
Melanie	Hernandez	2012-13	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
Maura	D'Amore	2007-8	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Drawn to Art	"Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"
Sarah	Gillespie	2006-7	City University of New York	PhD candidate	Drawn to Art	'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850
Ross	Barrett	2005-6	Boston University	PhD. Candidate	Drawn to Art	Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture
Janet	Headley	2002-3	Loyola College	associate professor	Drawn to Art	Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897
Sarah	Gerk	2013-14	Oberlin College	visiting teacher	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music
Sonia	Hazard	2013-14	Duke University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America
Robert	Lee	2013-14	University of CA, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851
Christopher	Lukasik	2013-14	Purdue University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Image in the Text

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