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 | Date |
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Rank | Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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Nancy | Siegel | 2008-9 | Juniata College | assistant professor | Last | "Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints." |
Birte | Christ | 2012-13 | Justus-Liebig-University Giessen | assistant professor | Ebeling | A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849 |
Charlene | Lewis | 2017-18 | Kalamazoo College | professor | Legacy | The Traitor's Wife: Peggy Arnold and Revolutionary America |
Thomas | Davis | 1980-81 | Kent State University | professor | Daniels | An Edition of Edward Taylor's Harmony of the Gospels |
W | Barber | 1995 | Kingsley Elementary School, Evanston, Illinois | teacher | K-12 | The Ethnic 'Other' in Children's Literature |
Christopher | Phillips | 2012-13 | Lafayette College | assistant professor | Lapides | The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850 |
Christopher N. | Phillips | 2016-17 | Lafayette College | associate professor of English | Burkhardt | The Hymnal Before the Notes: A History of Reading and Practice |
Elizabeth | Bethel | 1985-86 | Lander University | associate professor | Peterson | Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation |
Elizabeth | Bethel | 1986-87 | Lander University | associate professor | RA | Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation. |
Faith | Barrett | 2006-7 | Lawrence University | assistant professor | Botein | 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War |
Faith | Barrett | 2013-14 | Lawrence University | associate professor | Botein | Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America |
Katja | Kanzler | 2006-7 | Leipzig University | associate lecturer | Ebeling | Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing |
Mark | Valeri | 1989-90 | Lewis and Clark College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Eighteenth-Century Clergy and Economics in New England |
Wendy | Woloson | 2005-6 | Library Company of Philadelphia | curator | Peterson | Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America |
Albrecht | Koschnik | 2009-10 | Library Company of Philadelphia | fellow | ASECS | American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850 |
James | Green | 1986-87 | Library Company of Philadelphia | associate librarian | Boni | The Book Distribution Network of Mathew Carey, 1785-1820 |
James | Green | 1989-90 | Library Company of Philadelphia | associate librarian | Botein | The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825 |
Paul | Langford | 1974-75 | Lincoln College, Oxford | fellow | Daniels | British Attitudes towards the American Colonies during theAmerican Revolution |
Andrew | O'Shaughnessy | 1986-87 | Lincoln College, Oxford | lecturer | Peterson | The Politics of the Leehard Islands |
James | Newton | 1994 | Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA | department chair and teacher | K-12 | Political Cartoons in the Age of Andrew Jackson |
Russell | Handsman | 1993-94 | Litchfield, CT | independent scholar | Peterson | Challenging the Silences in New England History: John Milton Earle and the Indian People of Massachusetts |
Marguerite | Kirkpatrick | 1997 | Logan County High School | library media specialist | K-12 | Study of journals, diaries, amateur newspapers, and letters of young people to use in curriculum development for interdisciplinary unites in social studies, language arts, family living and media classes |
Heidi | Durrow | 2007 | Los Angeles, CA | fiction writer | Baron | research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era |
Carolyn | Kras | 2014 | Los Angeles, CA | writer, screen (TV, theater, stage) | Hearst | research for TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire |
Erik | Rodgers | 2017 | Los Angeles, California | fiction writer | Baron | Research for a novel entitled “The Broken World” |
Janet | Headley | 2002-3 | Loyola College | associate professor | Drawn to Art | Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897 |
Elizabeth | Hopwood | 2017-18 | Loyola University Chicago | instructor | Last | Eating the Atlantic: Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Caribbean Tables and Texts |
Carol | Flueckiger | 2009 | Lubbock, TX | painter | Jay and Deborah Last | research for body of paintings about feminism and early American reform practices |
Perry | Viles | 1972-73 | Lyndon State College | assistant professor | US Steel | Adolescence in America since 1790 |
Franciszek | Lyra | 1989-90 | M Curie-Sklodowska, Univ of Poland | senior lecturer | Peterson | Revising the Canon of the First Two Centuries of American Literature |
Jean | Franzino | 2016-17 | Macalester College | visiting assistant professor of English | Last | Freak Show Aesthetics |
Melanie | Sovine | 1983-84 | MacNeil Hospital | clinical anthropologist | AAS-NEH | The Primitive Baptists and the Anti-Mason Party |
Sarah | Messer | 1999 | Madison, WI | creative non-fiction writer/poet | Wallace | Red House: A non-fiction memoir of a place about one of the oldest continuously lived-in houses in New England |
James | Raven | 1994-95 | Magdalene College, Cambridge | fellow; director | Peterson | The Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth Century |
Cynthia | Hamilton | 1979-80 | Manchester Metropolitan | Senior Lecturer | Peterson | Representations of the Freedmen 1861-76 |
Christopher | Cokinos | 1998 | Manhattan, Kansas | creative writer | Artist | Research American attitudes toward and representations of now-extinct bird species and subspecies |
Janet | Pritchard | 2008 | Mansfield Center, CT | photographier | Jay and Deborah Last | Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s |
John | Lee | 1996 | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | resident playwright | Artist | Orphan Trains |
Gail | Smith | 1995-96 | Marquette University | assistant professor | RA | Reading the Word: Harriet Beecher Stow and Nineteenth Century American Hermeneutics |
Sabine | Schindler | 2008-9 | Martin Luther Univeristy | Ph.D. candidate | Ebeling | Talk of the Nation: Public speaking, Cultural Performance, and the Negotiation of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, 1840-1880 |
Peter | Kuczynski | 1987-88 | Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany | chairman | RA | The Contemporary Reception of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Gaylord | Albaugh | 1989-90 | McMaster University | professor | RA | American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830 |
Gaylord | Albaugh | 1972-73 | McMaster University | professor | U.S. Steel Foundation | American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830 |
Lee | Heller | 1989-90 | Mercer College | assistant professor | AAS-NEH | The Novel as Popular Literature: American Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Lee | Heller | 1994-95 | Mercer College | assistant professor | RA | The Uses of Fiction: Novel Reading and American Culture, 1720-1860 |
Hallie | Hobson | 2001 | Meredith Monk | Development Associate | Hearst | Watchnight, a olay on the eve of Emancipation |
Kimberly | Armstrong | 2016-17 | Metropolitan Community College, Omaha | instructor | Reese | ’The Plague is Just as Great Today’: Selling the Subscription Book in Postbellum America |
Martha | Schoolman | 2006-7 | Miami University | assistant professor | Peterson | American Abolitionist Geographies |
Brendan | Gillis | 2016-17 | Miami University of Ohio | visiting assistant professor | Hench | Conduits of Justice: Magistrates and the British Imperial State, 1732-1834 |
Sara Babcox | First | 2005-06 | Michigan | Ph.D. Candidate | Legacy | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America |