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 | Institution |
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Fellowship Awarded | Title of Project |
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David | Weir | 1984-85 | Princeton University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | The Convenant in New England, 1620-80 |
Nancy | Isenberg | 1987-88 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | PhD candidate | Hiatt | `Co-Equality of the Sexes': The Feminist and Religious Discourse of the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Rights Movement in America, 1848-60 |
Stephen | Mihm | 2001-2 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Alchemists: Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting in Antebellum America |
Jennifer | Egloff | 2009-10 | New York University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America |
Philippa | Koch | 2013-14 | University of Chicago Divinity School | PhD candidate | Peterson | Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America |
Jean | O'Brien-Kehoe | 1987-88 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 |
David | Rawson | 1993-94 | College of William and Mary | PhD candidate | Botein | The Print Distribution/Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810 |
Mazie | Harris | 2012-13 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884 |
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 |
Jennifer | Greenhill | 1989-90 | Yale University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-06 |
Amanda | Bilby | 2007-8 | Johns Hopkins University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families" |
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 |
Colin | McCoy | 1998-99 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Peterson | Partisans and Pamphleteers: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1820-1845 |
Elizabeth | Eager | 2015-16 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Drawn to Art | Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic |
Steven | Harthorn | 2002-3 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD candidate | Botein | James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851 |
Adam | Thomas | 2013-14 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Legacy | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
Jessica | Collier | 2010-11 | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America |
Katherine | Chavigny | 1993-94 | University of Chicago | PhD candidate | Peterson | American Confessions: The Formation of Antebellum Addiction Narratives |
Anna | Stewart | 2011-12 | University of Texas at Austin | PhD candidate | Botein | Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education |
Polly | Ha | 2006-7 | University of Cambridge | PhD candidate | Peterson | The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination |
Bernell | Tripp | 1991-92 | University of Alabama | PhD candidate | Botein | The Nineteenth-Century Black Press |
Marie-Stephanie | Delamaire | 2009-10 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges, 1848-1867 |
Cassandra | Berman | 2015-16 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Motherhood, the Law, and the Court of Public Opinion: Contesting Maternity in Nineteenth-Century America |
Gordon | Fraser | 2013-14 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Center for Historic American Visual Culture | Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence |
Matthew | Pursell | 2003-4 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Peterson | English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780 |
Lawrence | Rosenwald | 1976-77 | Columbia University | PhD candidate | Daniels | Analysis of colonial New England Diaries |
Mary Beth | Sievens | 1995-96 | Boston University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830 |
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 |
Charles | Wetherell | 1978-79 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Daniels | A Social History of the Early American Press |
Monique | Patenaude | 2008-9 | University of Rochester | PhD candidate | Peterson | "Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870." |
Amy | Sopcak-Joseph | 2015-16 | University of Connecticut | PhD candidate | Last | The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877 |
Glenda | Goodman | 2010-11 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Songs Crossing the Atlantic: The Making of Musical Hybrids |
Erik | Seeman | 1992-93 | University of Michigan | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Laity, Clergy, and the Shaping of Popular Religious Culture in New England, 1720-1770 |
Robert | St George | 1981-82 | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Boni | Popular Literature and Reading in Massachusetts, 1640-1720 |
Sari | Edelstein | 2008-9 | Brandeis University | PhD candidate | Peterson | "The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900." |
Kate | Larson | 2001-2 | University of New Hampshire | PhD candidate | Legacy | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
Priscilla | Brewer | 1984-85 | Brown University | PhD candidate | Hiatt | Technology and Domestic Ideology in theNineteenth-Century |
Linzy | Brekke | 2003-4 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | AHPCS | Fashioning a Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836 |
Ryan | Carr | 2013-14 | Yale University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890 |
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 |
Mary | Zundo | 2007-8 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | PhD candidate | Last | "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier" |
Cindy | Lobel | 1999-00 | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Peterson | Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860 |
Isabelle | Lehuu | 1988-89 | Cornell University | PhD candidate | Boni | The New Readers in Antebellum America |
JoAnne | Thomas | 2000-1 | Western Michigan University | PhD candidate | Peterson | Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War |
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 |
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. |
Gloria | Whiting | 2012-13 | Harvard University | PhD candidate | Peterson | 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England |