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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nian-Sheng | Huang | 2005-6 | California State University Channel Islands | associate professor | Peterson | The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830 |
| James | Lundberg | 2006-7 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872 |
| Gesa | Mackenthun | 2006-7 | University of Rostock | professor | Peterson | The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery and Romantic Scholarship in the USA |
| Daniel | Kilbride | 2007-8 | John Carroll University | associate professor | Peterson | "The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870" |
| Elizabeth | Johnston | 2005-6 | Harvard College | teaching assistant | Peterson | Choosing Freedom, Risking Slavery: African Americans, Antislavery Advocates, and the Courts in Massachusetts, 1830-1860 |
| Brian | Carroll | 2008-9 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763." |
| Robert | Naeher | 2006-7 | Emma Willard School | chair | Peterson | Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity |
| Jennifer | Anderson | 2004-5 | New York University | Ph.D. | Peterson | "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the 18th Century" |
| Valerie | McKito | 2007-8 | Texas Tech University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution" |
| Kathryn | Koo | 2005-6 | Saint Mary's College of California | assistant professor | Peterson | In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| 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 |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Jennifer | Manion | 2005-6 | Rutgers University | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835 |
| Nicole | Eustace | 2008-9 | New York University | assistant professor | Peterson | "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812." |
| Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
| Lynne | Bassett | 2004-5 | independent scholar | Peterson | "American Whole-Cloth Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic Production" | |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Marina | Moskowitz | 2005-6 | University of Glasgow | assistant professor | Peterson | Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America |
| Erin | Forbes | 2008-9 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Popular Crime Writing and the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe." |
| 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 |
| Phyllis | Cole | 2004-5 | Penn State Delaware County | professor | Peterson | "Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America" |
| Aaron | Sachs | 2007-8 | Cornell University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century" |
| 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." |
| 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 |
| David | Gellman | 2004-5 | DePauw University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom" |
| Lily | Santoro | 2007-8 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" |
| 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 |
| John | Huffman | 2009-10 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Documents of Identity in the Early Republic |
| Vicki | Hsueh | 2004-5 | Western Washington University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690" |
| Lisa | Tetrault | 2007-8 | Carnegie Mellon University | assistant professor | Peterson | "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895" |
| 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 |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
| Carrie | Hyde | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Alienable Rights: Negative Styles of U.S. Citizenship, 1798-1868 |
| Angela | Hudson | 2004-5 | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate | Peterson | "Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s" |
| 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 |
| Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
| 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 |
| 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 |
