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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| 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 |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | "The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War" |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Anthony | Szczesiul | 2005-6 | University of Massachusetts - Lowell | associate professor | Peterson | Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction |
| Ellen | Garvey | 2008-9 | New Jersey City University | associate professor | Peterson | "Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture." |
| Eric | Stoykovich | 2006-7 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville | PhD candidate | Peterson | Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876 |
| 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 |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| Wendy | Warren | 2005-6 | Yale University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |
| Robert | Gunn | 2008-9 | The University of Texas at El Paso | assistant professor | Peterson | "Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands." |
| Jill | Anderson | 2003-4 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation | assistant editor | Peterson | "Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture |
| Catherine | Thompson | 2006-7 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850 |
| Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| Daniel | Wewers | 2005-6 | Harvard University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833 |
| Jeffrey | Kaja | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | "From Rivers to Roads: Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800." |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| Matthew | Wittmann | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century |
| April | Masten | 2008-9 | State University of New York, Stony Brook | associate professor | Peterson | "The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture." |
| Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Peter | Leavenworth | 2004-5 | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic" |
| Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Matthew | Clavin | 2003-4 | American University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Men of Color, to Arms! |
| Jeffrey | Malanson | 2009-10 | Boston College | PhD candidate | Peterson | Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 |
| Katherine | McCaffrey | 2004-5 | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril" |
| Jane | Merritt | 2008-9 | Old Dominion University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy." |
| Erika | Gasser | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1600-1700 |
| Gustavo | Paz | 2009-10 | University of Buenos Aires | associate professor | Peterson | News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825) |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2004-5 | University of Cincinnati | associate professor | Peterson | "South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border" |
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Ellen | Gilbert | 2003-4 | Rutgers University | independent scholar | Peterson | St. Wulstan Society Papers |
| Yvette | Piggush | 2009-10 | Florida International University | assistant professor | Peterson | We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840 |
| Ilyon | Woo | 2004-5 | Columbia University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Mother against Mother" |
| Xi | Chen | 2010-11 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Life and Times of John B. Gough |
| Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
