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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Aston | Gonzalez | 2011-12 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity |
| Claire | Gherini | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800 |
| Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
| Matthew | Garrett | 2011-12 | Wesleyan University | assistant professor | NEMLA | Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic |
| Nicolas | Barreyre | 2011-12 | University Paris Ouest Nanterre | assistant professor | Tracy | Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| Jeffrey | Groves | 2011-12 | Harvey Mudd College | professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society |
| John | Leary | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | Peterson | A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination |
| Matthew | Amato | 2011-12 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s |
| Susan | Branson | 2011-12 | Syracuse University | associate professor | Peterson | Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860 |
| Joseph | Adelman | 2011-12 | Johns Hopkins University | lecturer | TRUE | Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789 |
| Amber | LaPiana | 2011-12 | Washington State University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Mapping Literary Regionalism |
| Julien | Mauduit | 2011-12 | Universite du Quebec a Montreal | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials |
| Wendy | Bellion | 2011-12 | University of Delaware | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory |
| Benjamin | Cooper | 2011-12 | Washington University in St Louis | lecturer | Peterson | Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience |
| Lara | Cohen | 2011-12 | Wayne State University | assistant professor | TRUE | Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures |
| Anne | Verplanck | 2011-12 | Penn State University | associate professor | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880 |
| Jonathan | Nash | 2011-12 | University at Albany, SUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850 |
| Gina Marie | Caison | 2011-12 | University of California, Davis | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper |
| Christine | DeLucia | 2011-12 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78) |
| Allison | Lange | 2011-12 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920 |
| Carolyn | Eastman | 2011-12 | University of Texas | assistant professor | TRUE | Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print |
| Dominique | Zino | 2011-12 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James |
| Britt | Rusert | 2011-12 | Temple University | postdoc fellow | Peterson | Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery |
| Natalie | Deibel | 2011-12 | George Washington University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 |
| Hannah | Farber | 2011-12 | University of California, Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic |
| Claire | Parfait | 2012-13 | Universite de Paris 13 | professor | Reese | African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography |
| 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 |
| Patrick | Luck | 2012-13 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825 |
| Justin | Clark | 2012-13 | University of Southern California | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870 |
| Jessie | Morgan-Owens | 2012-13 | Nanyang Technological University | assistant professor | TRUE | Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition |
| James | Finley | 2012-13 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Packer | 'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing |
| Matthew | Sivils | 2012-13 | Iowa State University | assistant professor | Schiller | The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847 |
| Brian | Valencia | 2012-13 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque |
| 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 |
| Frances | Clarke | 2012-13 | University of Sydney | lecturer | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War |
| Christopher | Apap | 2012-13 | Oakland University | special lecturer | Peterson | The Genius of the Place |
| Jonathan | Den Hartog | 2012-13 | Northwestern College | associate professor | AHPCS | Transatlantic Antijacobinism |
| Brian | Luskey | 2012-13 | West Virginia University | assistant professor | Tracy | Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century |
| Melanie | Hernandez | 2012-13 | University of Washington, Seattle | PhD candidate | Drawn-to-Art | Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire |
| Christina | Snyder | 2012-13 | Indiana University, Bloomington | assistant professor | Peterson | The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America |
| Michael | D'Alessandro | 2012-13 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870 |
| Richard | Bell | 2012-13 | University of Maryland | assistant professor | Peterson | The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade |
| Molly | Farrell | 2012-13 | Ohio State University | assistant professor | ASECS | Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America |
| David | Anthony | 2012-13 | SIU Carbondale | associate professor | TRUE | The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture |
| Christopher | Phillips | 2012-13 | Lafayette College | assistant professor | Lapides | The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850 |
| Mark | Thompson | 2012-13 | University of Groningen | assistant professor | Peterson | Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America |
| Brett | Grainger | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870 |
