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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Melissa | Homestead | 2010-11 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | associate professor | Reese | E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction |
| Adam | Shapiro | 2011-12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | postdoctoral fellow | Reese | William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America |
| Steven | Smith | 2011-12 | University of Missouri | PhD candidate | Reese | A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830 |
| Eric | Altice | 2000-1 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Reese | Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America |
| Elizabeth | Hawley | 2002-3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD candidate | Reese | American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890 |
| Christopher | Hunter | 2012-13 | California Institute of Technology | assistant professor | Reese | A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850 |
| Thomas | Augst | 1999-00 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Reese | Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture |
| Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
| Michael | Hoeflich | 2001-2 | University of Kansas School of Law | professor | Reese | The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century |
| Joanne | van der Woude | 2006-7 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Reese | Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century |
| Nikos | Pappas | 2007-8 | University of Kentucky | PhD candidate | Reese | "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870) |
| Elizabeth | Petrino | 2007-8 | Fairfield University | associate professor | Reese | "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian" |
| Kyle | Roberts | 2005-6 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD. Candidate | Reese | Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860 |
| Hester | Blum | 2004-5 | Penn State University | assistant professor | Reese | "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination" |
| Catherine | Parisian | 2008-9 | independent scholar | Reese | "A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney." | |
| 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." |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Molly | McCarthy | 2000-1 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America |
| Michael | Simoncelli | 1999-00 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan | Becoming Northern: The Clash of Regional Cultures and the Creation of a Northern Identity in Ohio, 1770-1877 |
| Matthew | Sivils | 2012-13 | Iowa State University | assistant professor | Schiller | The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847 |
| Elisa | Tamarkin | 2002-3 | University of California, Santa Barbara | assistant professor | Sigety Family | American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 |
| Steven | Harthorn | 2002-3 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD candidate | Stephen Botein | James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851 |
| Ann | Johnson | 2002-3 | Fordham University | assistant professor | Stephen Botein | Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field |
| Steven | Deyle | 2009-10 | University of Houston | associate professor | Tracy | Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan |
| Faye | Dudden | 2003-4 | Colgate University | professor | Tracy | The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870 |
| Laura | Murray | 2010-11 | Queen's University | associate professor | Tracy | What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies |
| Nicolas | Barreyre | 2011-12 | University Paris Ouest Nanterre | assistant professor | Tracy | Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| Mitchell | Snay | 2000-1 | Denison University | associate professor | Tracy | A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction |
| Liam | Riordan | 1999-00 | University of Maine | assistant professor | Tracy | Newspapers and the Local Meaning of the Nation in the Delaware Valley |
| Brian | Luskey | 2012-13 | West Virginia University | assistant professor | Tracy | Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century |
| Edward | Rugemer | 2006-7 | Boston College | postdoctoral fellow | Tracy | The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Michael | Cohen | 2005-6 | New York University | PhD. Candidate | Tracy | Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915 |
| Peter | Baldwin | 2004-5 | University of Connecticut | assistant professor | Tracy | "American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930" |
| Sara | Fanning | 2004-5 | University of Texas at Austin | Ph.D. candidate | Tracy | "The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830" |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| Meredith | Neuman | 2008-9 | Clark University | assistant professor | TRUE | "Letter and Spirit" |
| Emily | Pawley | 2009-10 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | TRUE | 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860 |
| Beth | Schweiger | 2008-9 | University of Arkansas | associate professor | TRUE | "Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| Lloyd | Pratt | 2009-10 | Michigan State University | assistant professor | TRUE | The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860 |
| Tanya | Sheehan | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | assistant professor | TRUE | Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor |
| Mary Beth | Sievens | 2009-10 | SUNY Fredonia | associate professor | TRUE | The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865 |
| Michael | Winship | 2009-10 | University of Texas | professor | TRUE | Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950 |
| Elizabeth | Dillon | 2010-11 | Northeastern University | associate professor | TRUE | Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World |
| Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | TRUE | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
| Kyle | Volk | 2010-11 | University of Montana | assistant professor | TRUE | Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | lecturer | TRUE | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Lisa | Wilson | 2010-11 | Connecticut College | professor | TRUE | Cinderella's Family |
