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.
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Date | Institution | Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Ethan | Robey | 2002-3 | State University of New York at Binghamton | independent scholar | AHPCS | The Art Galleries of Mechanics' Institute Fairs: Liaisons Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
Fiona | Robertson | 1994-95 | Durham University | lecturer | RA | Representing America, 1776-1830 |
Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
Kyle | Roberts | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Hench | Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845 |
Wendy | Roberts | 2015-16 | SUNY-Albany | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Redeeming Verse: The Poetics of Revivalism |
Kyle | Roberts | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD. Candidate | Reese | Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860 |
Wendy | Roberts | 2009-10 | Northwestern University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America |
Brian | Roberts | 1998-99 | California State University, Sacramento | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Psalms, Reels and Glees: Popular Music and American Identity from the Colonial Era through the Civil War |
Celeste | Roberge | 2008 | Gainesville, FL | sculptor | Hearst | research on American furniture - its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture |
Suzanne | Rivecca | 2010 | San Francisco, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for a novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff |
Liam | Riordan | 1999-00 | University of Maine | assistant professor | Tracy | Newspapers and the Local Meaning of the Nation in the Delaware Valley |
Lucy | Rinehart | 1991-92 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | The Drama of Democracy: The Staging of America from the Revolution to the Civil War |
Michaela | Rife | 2017-18 | University of Toronto | Ph.D. candidate | AHPCS | Wonderful Mining Country: Promoting Western Resource Extraction |
Judith | Ridner | 2017-18 | Mississippi State University | associate professor | Last | Clothing the Babel: The Material Culture of Ethnic Identity in Early America |
Daniel | Richter | 1981-82 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Daniels | Societies on the Eighteenth Century New York Frontier |
Eliza | Richards | 2002-3 | Boston University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America |
Stephen | Rice | 1995-96 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Incorporating the Machine: Labor, Fatigue, and the Problem of Self-Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Industrial America |
Grantland | Rice | 1993-94 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Botein | The Transformation of Authorship in Early America |
Joseph | Rezek | 2015-16 | Boston University | assistant professor | Botein | Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture |
David | Reynolds | 1982-83 | Northwestern University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Beneath the American Renaissance |
John | Resch | 1987-88 | University of New Hampshire, Manchester | professor | RA | Politics, Public Policy, and American Culture, 1815-25: The 1818 Revolutionary War Pension Act |
Rosalind | Remer | 1988-89 | UCLA | PhD candidate | Peterson | Philadelphia Publishers in the New Republic |
Benjamin | Reiss | 2001-02 | Tulane | Assistant Professor | NEH | Antebellum Literary Culture and the Rise of the Asylum |
Elizabeth | Reis | 1999-00 | University of Oregon | adjunct assistant professor | Legacy | Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions |
Catherine | Reid | 2012 | Asheville, NC | writer, essayist | Baron | research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida |
Lindsay | Regele | 2014-15 | Brown University | Ph.D. Candidate in History | Peterson | Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy, and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840 |
Joy | Reeves | 1996 | Chicago public schools, Chicago, IL | teacher | K-12 | Incorporation of research into a historical novel on indentured servants to be used as supplemental reading material to enhance the social studies unit on colonial settlement |
Peter | Reed | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | NEMLA | Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865 |
Peter | Reed | 2007-8 | Florida State University | instructor | NEMLA | "Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" |
Wendy | Reaves | 1976-77 | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute | curator of prints | Daniels | 18th-Century American Portrait Engravings |
Alpen | Razi | 2012-13 | University of Toronto | PhD candidate | Legacy | Colored Citizens of the World |
David | Rawson | 1993-94 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Botein | The Print Distribution/Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810 |
David | Rawson | 1997-98 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | RA | The Print Distribution/Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810. |
James | Raven | 1994-95 | Magdalene College, Cambridge | fellow; director | Peterson | The Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth Century |
James | Raven | 1986-87 | Pembroke College, Cambridge | fellow | Peterson | The Economics of Bookselling in Britian 1700-1800; Print and Trade in Eighteenth-Century Britiain |
Richard | Rath | 1997-98 | Brandeis Univesity | PhD candidate | Peterson | North American Soundways, 1600-1800 |
Donald | Ratcliffe | 1983-84 | University of Durham | PhD candidate | Haven | The 1812 Presidential Election in Ohio |
Donald | Ratcliffe | 1998-99 | University of Durham | senior lecturer | RA | Origins of Party Conflict in the US , 1790-1840 |
Yuri | Rasovsky | 1995 | Glendale, CA | radio documentary producer | Artist | Radio Documentary on the History of Thanksgiving |
Melissa | Range | 2013 | Columbia, MO | poet | Baron | research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator" |
Mary | Ramsbottom | 1979-80 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Daniels | Religious Experience, 17th-Century New England |
Joseph | Rainer | 1995-96 | University of Mississippi | visiting instructor | Peterson | Peddler Folklore in Southern Almanacs |
Matthew | Raffety | 2001-02 | Columbia | Ph.D. Candidate | Sigety | The Republic Afloat: Labor and 'Liberty' in Mutinies on American Ships, 1789-1861 |
Daniel | Radus | 2014-15 | Cornell University | Ph.D. Candidate in English | Peterson | The Eulogy on Tour: Kinship and the Transnational History of Native New England |
Joan | Radner | 2001-02 | American | Professor | Mellon | Performing the Paper: Rural Intellectual Life in Postbellum Northern New England |
Mary | Quinlivan | 1978-79 | Universit of Texas, Permian Basin | associate professor | Daniels | The Social Significance of the Children's Literature of Jacob Abbot |
Helene | Quanquin | 2014-15 | Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 | Associate Professor | Jenny d'Hericourt | From The Liberator to The Nation: The Periodical Legacies of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips |
Helene | Quanquin | 2009-10 | University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle | associate professor | Peterson | 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890 |
Thomas | Purvis | 1987-88 | Auburn University, Montgomery | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | A Decade of Conflict:Anglo-American Mobilization in the Era of the Seven Years' War, 1754-1764 |
Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |