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
David	Silverman	2005-6	George Washington University	assistant professor	ASECS	Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
David	Silverman	2010-11	George Washington University	associate professor	ASECS	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native 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
Manisha	Sinha	2004-5	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	AAS-NEH	"Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865"
Kelly	Sisson	2008-9	University of Michigan	PhD candidate	Peterson	"King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936."
Matthew	Sivils	2012-13	Iowa State University	assistant professor	Schiller	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Reiner	Smolinski	2002-3	Georgia State University	associate professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Authority & Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana'
Mitchell	Snay	2000-1	Denison University	associate professor	Tracy	A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction
James	Snead	2009-10	George Mason University	associate professor	Peterson	The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
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
Derrick	Spires	2008-9	Vanderbilt University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S."
Allison	Stagg	2009-10	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
Arden	Stern	2009-10	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
Louise	Stevenson	2000-1	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Botein	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
David	Stewart	1999-00	National Central University, Taiwan	assistant professor	NEMLA	George Thompson and Men's Reading
J. Brenton	Stewart	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	PhD candidate	Botein	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Richard	Stillson	2000-1	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Botein	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
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	Stubenrauch	2008-9	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Last	"Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution."
Anthony	Szczesiul	2005-6	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	associate professor	Peterson	Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
Elisa	Tamarkin	2002-3	University of California, Santa Barbara	assistant professor	Sigety Family	American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865
Alan	Taylor	2000-1	University of California, Davis	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution
Lisa	Tetrault	2007-8	Carnegie Mellon University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895"
JoAnne	Thomas	2000-1	Western Michigan University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War
Catherine	Thompson	2006-7	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North 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
Phillip	Troutman	2010-11	George Washington University	assistant professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Brian	Valencia	2012-13	Yale University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Maurizio	Valsania	2007-8	University of Torino, Italy	associate professor		"The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828"
William	van Arragon	2000-1	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892
Joanne	van der Woude	2006-7	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Reese	Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century
Jennifer	Van Horn	2008-9	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	AHPCS	"The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)."
Cynthia	Van Zandt	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Botein	Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	TRUE	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Michael	Vorenberg	2002-3	Brown University	assistant professor	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
William	Wagner	2006-7	University of California, Berkeley	PhD candidate	Legacy	Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865
Wendy	Warren	2005-6	Yale University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700
Karen	Weierman	2000-1	Worcester State College	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
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."
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Daniel	Wewers	2005-6	Harvard University	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England

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