NavigationDirectory 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 | Institution |
Rank |
Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
| Charles | Wetherell | 1978-79 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Daniels | A Social History of the Early American Press |
| Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
| Amy | Sopcak-Joseph | 2015-16 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877 |
| Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
| Phyllis | Hunter | 1992-93 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Peterson | Ship of Wealth: New England Merchants, Colonial Capitalism, and the Rhetoric of Money |
| Kariann | Yokota | 1999-00 | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD candidate | Peterson | A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation, 1789-1830 |
| Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
| Sarah | Weicksel | 2013-14 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era |
| Robert | St George | 1981-82 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Boni | Popular Literature and Reading in Massachusetts, 1640-1720 |
| Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
| Patricia | Crain | 1992-93 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Cultures of Reading in the American Renaissance |
| Randi | Lewis | 2012-13 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Peterson | To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819 |
| Glenda | Goodman | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids |
| Paul | Echols | 1978-79 | New York University | PhD candidate | Daniels | The Development of Revival Music in the US : 1820-1860 |
| Isabelle | Lehuu | 1988-89 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Boni | The New Readers in Antebellum America |
| Margaret | Newell | 1988-89 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Economic Ideology and Development in New England, 1629-1820 |
| Katherine | Preston | 1986-87 | CUNY | PhD candidate | Peterson | Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1830-65. |
| Molly | Berger | 1993-94 | Case Western Reserve University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Modern Hotel in America, 1829-29 |
| Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
| Lucy | Rinehart | 1991-92 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | The Drama of Democracy: The Staging of America from the Revolution to the Civil War |
| Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
| Linzy | Brekke | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836 |
| Daegan | Miller | 2010-11 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Brigitte | Fielder | 2011-12 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century |
| 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 |
| Elaine | Jackson-Retondo | 1997-98 | UC Berkeley | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Penitentiary as an Artifact of the Cultural Landscape - A Comparative Analysis, 1780-1860 |
| Joanne | Passet | 1997-98 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Peterson | The American Debate on Marriage: Religion, Gender, and Social Radicalism, 1850-00 |
| Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
| Amy | Hughes | 2009-10 | Brooklyn College | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 |
| Paul | Foos | 1996-97 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Mexican Wars, 1835-1853: Manifest Destiny and American Society |
| Gloria | Whiting | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England |
| Blevin | Shelnutt | 2015-16 | New York University | PhD candidate | AHPC | New York City's Broadway and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture |
| Mary | Zundo | 2007-8 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Last | "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier" |
| Melissa | Homestead | 1996-97 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Peterson | Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century AmericanWomen Authors and Literary Property |
| Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
| David | Rawson | 1997-98 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | RA | The Print Distribution/Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810. |
| JoAnne | Thomas | 2000-1 | Western Michigan University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War |
| Benjamin | Fagan | 2008-9 | University of Virginia | PhD candidate | Tracy | "'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860." |
| Sonia | Hazard | 2013-14 | Duke University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America |
| Mark | Schantz | 1987-88 | Emory College | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Piety in Providence: The class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Providence, Rhode Island, 1790-1860 |
| Brandon | Johnson | 2002-3 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893 |
| Seth | Perry | 2009-10 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Reese | The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850 |
| Brian | Luskey | 2003-4 | Emory University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tyesha | Maddox | 2015-16 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | From Invisible to Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940 |
| Sarah | Carter | 2007-8 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Last | "Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| 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)." |
| Gretchen | Adams | 2000-1 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Specter of Salem in American Culture |
