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
Monique	Patenaude	2008-9	University of Rochester	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870."
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Nancy	Siegel	2008-9	Juniata College	assistant professor	Last	"Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints."
Nancy	Shoemaker	2006-7	University of Connecticut	professor	AAS-NEH	The Whaling History of New England Indians
Nancy	Isenberg	2003-4	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr
Nancy	Isenberg	2007-8	University of Tulsa	associate professor	Peterson	"Dirty Politics in Early America"
Natalie	Deibel	2011-12	George Washington University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Natasha	Lightfoot	2006-7	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858
Natasha	Hurley	2008-9	University of Alberta	postdoctoral fellow	ASECS	"The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe."
Neil	Kamil	2012-13	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	TRUE	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Nenette	Luarca-Shoaf	2009-10	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination
Nian-Sheng	Huang	2005-6	California State University Channel Islands	associate professor	Peterson	The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
Nicholas	Wrightson	2006-7	Jesus College, Oxford University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	"Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65"
Nick	Yablon	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
Nicolas	Barreyre	2011-12	University Paris Ouest Nanterre	assistant professor	Tracy	Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Nicole	Eustace	2008-9	New York University	assistant professor	Peterson	"War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."
Nikos	Pappas	2007-8	University of Kentucky	PhD candidate	Reese	"Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870)
Patricia	Crain	2005-6	University of Minnesota	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Patricia	Johnston	2007-8	Salem State College	professor	Last	"Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants"
Patricia	Roylance	2008-9	Syracuse University	assistant professor	Last	"Eclipse of Empire."
Patrick	Luck	2012-13	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
Paul	Jones	2007-8	Ohio University	assistant professor	Peterson	"The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement"
Peter	Messer	2007-8	Mississippi State University	assistant professor	ASECS	"Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America"
Peter	Reed	2007-8	Florida State University	instructor	NEMLA	"Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852"
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"
Peter	Baldwin	2004-5	University of Connecticut	assistant professor	Tracy	"American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930"
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Peter	Leavenworth	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	TRUE	"Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825"
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
Philip	Gould	1999-00	Brown University	assistant professor	NEMLA	A Barbaric Trade': Commerce, Antislavery, and Cultures of Manners in Anglo-America, 1770-1830
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Phyllis	Cole	2004-5	Penn State Delaware County	professor	Peterson	"Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America"
Polly	Ha	2006-7	University of Cambridge	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination
Rachel	Lin	2002-3	Brown University	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
Radiclani	Clytus	2009-10	Tufts University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Rafia	Zafar	1999-00	Washington University	associate professor	Peterson	And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Randi	Lewis	2012-13	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
Rebecca	McNulty	2003-4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Renee	Sentilles	2003-4	Case Western Reserve University	assistant professor	Peterson	Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
Richard	Bell	2007-8	University of Maryland	assistant professor	TRUE	"Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States"
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Richard	Fox	2000-1	University of Southern California	professor	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow	American Jesus
Richard	Bell	2003-4	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Robb	Haberman	2004-5	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	Legacy	"Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America"
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."
Robert	Gross	2002-3	College of William and Mary	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Transcendentalist and Their World
Robert	Naeher	2006-7	Emma Willard School	chair	Peterson	Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity

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