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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Robin | Bernstein | 2008-9 | Harvard University | assistant professor | Last | "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930." |
| Ross | Barrett | 2005-6 | Boston University | PhD. Candidate | Drawn to Art | Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture |
| Ruma | Chopra | 2006-7 | University of California at Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783 |
| Sally | Promey | 2001-2 | University of Maryland | professor | AHPCS | Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief |
| Sara | Babcox | 2005-6 | University of Michigan | PhD. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in 19th-Century America |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| Sara | Lampert | 2010-11 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Peterson | Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry |
| Sarah | Gillespie | 2006-7 | City University of New York | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850 |
| Sarah | Purcell | 2007-8 | Grinnell College | associate professor | Peterson | "The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War" |
| Sarah | Gould | 2008-9 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Last | "Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games." |
| Sarah | Keyes | 2010-11 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Peterson | Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900 |
| Sarah | Roth | 2000-1 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | The Slavery Controversy in Antebellum Popular Culture |
| Sarah | Carter | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Last | "Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| 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 |
| Sarah | Beetham | 2012-13 | University of Delaware | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917 |
| Sargent | Bush Jr. | 2002-3 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | professor | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice |
| Sari | Altschuler | 2011-12 | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Legacy | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Scott | McLaren | 2012-13 | York University | associate professor | Botein | Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850 |
| Scott | Miltenberger | 2003-4 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Peterson | All Gotham's Creatures: Animals and the Middle Class in New York City, 1783-1898 |
| Sean | Kelley | 2008-9 | Hartwick College | associate professor | TRUE | "Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora" |
| Sean | Harvey | 2010-11 | Northern Illinois University | visiting assistant professor | TRUE | American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Seth | Rockman | 2006-7 | Brown University | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy |
| Shelby | Balik | 2003-4 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Religious Frontier |
| Spencer | Keralis | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Legacy | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Stacey | Robertson | 2007-8 | Bradley University | associate professor | Tracy | "'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest" |
| Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
| Stephen | Marini | 2007-8 | Wellesley College | professor | TRUE | "Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America" |
| Steven | Harthorn | 2002-3 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD candidate | Stephen Botein | James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851 |
| Steven | Deyle | 2009-10 | University of Houston | associate professor | Tracy | Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan |
| Steven | Smith | 2011-12 | University of Missouri | PhD candidate | Reese | A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830 |
| Susan | Graham | 2005-6 | University of Minnesota | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
| Susan | Parrish | 2003-4 | University of Michigan | assistant professor | Botein | Colonial and Early National American Almanac |
| T.J. | Tomlin | 2010-11 | University of Northern Colorado | assistant professor | Botein | A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820 |
| Tanya | Sheehan | 2009-10 | Rutgers University | assistant professor | TRUE | Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor |
| Tanya | Mears | 2008-9 | Norfolk State University | assistant professor | Peterson | "'To Lawless Rapine Bred': Early New England Execution Literature Featuring People of African Descent." |
| Thomas | Brown | 2003-4 | University of South Carolina | associate professor | Peterson | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
| Thomas | Augst | 1999-00 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Reese | Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture |
| Thomas | Coens | 2002-3 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson | The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829 |
| Thomas | Augst | 2004-5 | University of Minnesota | assistant professor | Peterson | "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" |
| Tim | Cassedy | 2010-11 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Character of Communication, 1790-1810 |
| Timothy | Marr | 1999-00 | Western Connecticut State University | assistant professor | Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow | Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville |
| Timothy | Helwig | 2005-6 | University of Maryland | PhD. Candidate | Peterson | Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries |
| Udo | Hebel | 2000-1 | University of Regensburg | chair | Peterson | Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War |
| Ursula | Crosslin | 2009-10 | Ohio State University | PhD candidate | Reese | The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860 |
