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
Whitney	Martinko	2009-10	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860
Carrie	Hyde	2009-10	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868
Albrecht	Koschnik	2009-10	Library Company of Philadelphia	fellow	ASECS	American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
Tanya	Sheehan	2009-10	Rutgers University	assistant professor	TRUE	Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Jennifer	Wilson	2009-10	The Graduate Center, The City University of New York	PhD candidate	Peterson	Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'; and Jacques Offenbach's 'La Grande-Duchesse de
Lyra	Monteiro	2009-10	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860
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
Laura	Murray	2010-11	Queen's University	associate professor	Tracy	What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies
Daegan	Miller	2010-11	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Meredith	Bak	2010-11	University of California, Santa Barbara	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
Tim	Cassedy	2010-11	New York University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
Elizabeth	Dillon	2010-11	Northeastern University	associate professor	TRUE	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Christopher	Oliver	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
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
Jessica	Collier	2010-11	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
Xi	Chen	2010-11	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Life and Times of John B. Gough
Daniel	Lewis	2010-11	Northern Virginia Community College	assistant professor		The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
Sean	Harvey	2010-11	Northern Illinois University	visiting assistant professor	TRUE	American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
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
Elizabeth	Pryor	2010-11	Smith College	assistant professor	Peterson	The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Glenda	Goodman	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids
John	Coward	2010-11	University of Tulsa	associate professor	AHPC	Cartooning with Savages: A Cultural History of Native American Images in the Popular Press
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	TRUE	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Kerin	Holt	2010-11	Utah State University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
Philip	Herrington	2010-11	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Plantation as Imagined in Antislavery Discourse, 1830-1860
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Lisa	Wilson	2010-11	Connecticut College	professor	TRUE	Cinderella's Family
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Sarah	Arndt	2010-11	Trinity College, University of Dublin	PhD candidate	Reese	The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825
Alison	Klaum	2010-11	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Sarah	Keyes	2010-11	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Peterson	Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Matthew	Bahar	2010-11	University of Oklahoma	PhD candidate	Legacy	People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Hugh	McIntosh	2010-11	Northwestern University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
Sara	Lampert	2010-11	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
T.J.	Tomlin	2010-11	University of Northern Colorado	assistant professor	Botein	A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Yvette	Piggush	2011-12	Florida International University	assistant professor	TRUE	We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850
Sari	Altschuler	2011-12	City University of New York, The Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Legacy	National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830

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