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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas | Augst | 1999-00 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Reese | Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture |
| Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Anne | Roth-Reinhardt | 2010-11 | University of Minnesota | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction |
| John | Howe | 2002-3 | University of Minnesota | professor emeritus | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston |
| Patricia | Crain | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | associate professor | AAS-NEH | Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States |
| Peter | Reed | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | NEMLA | Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865 |
| Adrian | Weimer | 2010-11 | University of Mississippi | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England |
| Alexandra | Socarides | 2012-13 | University of Missouri | assistant professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery |
| Steven | Smith | 2011-12 | University of Missouri | PhD candidate | Reese | A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830 |
| Jeffrey | Pasley | 2004-5 | University of Missouri - Columbia | associate professor | ASECS | "Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828" |
| Kyle | Volk | 2010-11 | University of Montana | assistant professor | TRUE | Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2010-11 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Reese | E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction |
| Wendy | Katz | 2008-9 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Last | "The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862." |
| Edward | Andrews | 2007-8 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775" |
| Cynthia | Van Zandt | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | Botein | Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America |
| Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
| 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" |
| Gretchen | Adams | 2000-1 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Specter of Salem in American Culture |
| 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" |
| James | Finley | 2012-13 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Packer | 'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing |
| Christopher | Pastore | 2010-11 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836 |
| Laura | Smith | 2008-9 | University of New Hampshire | lecturer | Drawn-to-Art | "Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'." |
| 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 |
| Michael | Everton | 2003-4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Reese | Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture |
| Kenneth | Banks | 2005-6 | University of North Carolina, Asheville | visiting assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800 |
| Maura | D'Amore | 2007-8 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | "Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| T.J. | Tomlin | 2010-11 | University of Northern Colorado | assistant professor | Botein | A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820 |
| Sara | Crosby | 2005-6 | University of Notre Dame | Ph.D. candidate | AAS-NEH | The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860 |
| Glenn | Hendler | 2002-3 | University of Notre Dame | associate professor | Northeast Modern Language Association | Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Matthew | Bahar | 2010-11 | University of Oklahoma | PhD candidate | Legacy | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| Catherine | Kelly | 1999-00 | University of Oklahoma | assistant professor | Peterson | Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic |
| Elizabeth | Reis | 1999-00 | University of Oregon | adjunct assistant professor | Legacy | Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions |
| Lydia | Fisher | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | lecturer | NEMLA | Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD. Candidate | Reese | Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860 |
| Joanna | Cohen | 2007-8 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Last | "'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876" |
| Emily | Pawley | 2009-10 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | TRUE | 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860 |
| Myron | Gray | 2012-13 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | French Music in Federal Philadelphia |
| Courtney | Weikle-Mills | 2008-9 | University of Pittsburgh | assistant professor | Reese | "Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852." |
| Jeannine | DeLombard | 2001-2 | University of Puget Sound | assistant professor | NEMLA | At the Bar of Public Opinion: Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism |
| Volker | Depkat | 2010-11 | University of Regensburg | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Visualization of Legitimacy |
| Udo | Hebel | 2000-1 | University of Regensburg | chair | Peterson | Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War |
| Michael | Jarvis | 2003-4 | University of Rochester | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | 'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815 |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
| Leon | Jackson | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | assistant professor | Peterson | The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in America, 1780s-1840s |
| Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
| Cynthia | Patterson | 2008-9 | University of South Florida, Lakeland | assistant professor | Last | "'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts." |
| Matthew | Amato | 2011-12 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s |
| Justin | Clark | 2012-13 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870 |
