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
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
Kara	French	2011-12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
Gian	Iachini	2009-10	University of Milan	teaching assistant	Drawn-to-Art	'Join, or Die': Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution
Patricia	Crain	2005-6	University of Minnesota	associate professor	AAS-NEH	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Anne	Roth-Reinhardt	2010-11	University of Minnesota	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Thomas	Augst	1999-00	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Reese	Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture
Susan	Graham	2005-6	University of Minnesota	PhD. Candidate	Peterson	Female Dorrites and Antebellum Partisanship
Thomas	Augst	2004-5	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Peterson	"The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship"
John	Howe	2002-3	University of Minnesota	professor emeritus	ASECS	The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston
Peter	Reed	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	NEMLA	Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790-1865
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
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
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Jeffrey	Pasley	2004-5	University of Missouri - Columbia	associate professor	ASECS	"Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828"
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Melissa	Homestead	2010-11	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Reese	E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
Wendy	Katz	2008-9	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	Last	"The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862."
Peter	Leavenworth	2004-5	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic"
Edward	Andrews	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Saints our of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1775"
Gretchen	Adams	2000-1	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Specter of Salem in American Culture
Jessica	Lepler	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Hench	1837: Anatomy of a Panic
Peter	Leavenworth	2007-8	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
Cynthia	Van Zandt	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Botein	Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Kate	Larson	2001-2	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Legacy	Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman
Christopher	Pastore	2010-11	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Peterson	From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
Laura	Smith	2008-9	University of New Hampshire	lecturer	Drawn-to-Art	"Material Domesticity: Textiles in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'The Morgesons'."
Patricia	Pender	2013-14	University of Newcastle	associate professor	Reese	Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867
Philip	Gura	2002-3	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	professor	Peterson	Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
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
Kenneth	Banks	2005-6	University of North Carolina, Asheville	visiting assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
Maura	D'Amore	2007-8	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	PhD candidate	Drawn to Art	"Suburban Men: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century 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
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
Glenn	Hendler	2002-3	University of Notre Dame	associate professor	NEMLA	Riot Acts: Gender, Race, and Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Catherine	Kelly	1999-00	University of Oklahoma	assistant professor	Peterson	Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic
Matthew	Bahar	2010-11	University of Oklahoma	PhD candidate	Legacy	People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World
Elizabeth	Reis	1999-00	University of Oregon	adjunct assistant professor	Legacy	Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions
Kyle	Roberts	2007-8	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	Hench	Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845
Melissa	Homestead	2000-1	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D.	Hench	Imperfect Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property
Kyle	Roberts	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	PhD. Candidate	Reese	Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860
Lydia	Fisher	2005-6	University of Pennsylvania	lecturer	NEMLA	Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation
Joanna	Cohen	2007-8	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Last	"'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876"
Emily	Pawley	2009-10	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	AAS-NEH	'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
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."
Jeannine	DeLombard	2001-2	University of Puget Sound	assistant professor	NEMLA	At the Bar of Public Opinion: Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism
Volker	Depkat	2010-11	University of Regensburg	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Udo	Hebel	2000-1	University of Regensburg	chair	Peterson	Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Katharina	Erhard	2004-5	University of Regensburg	Ph.D. candidate	Ebeling	‘An Empire in Many Respects the Most Interesting in the World’: Choreographies of Empire in Early American Plays

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