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
Aaron	Sachs	2007-8	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century"
Aaron	Marrs	2010-11	U.S. Department of State	historian	Peterson	Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
Adam	Nelson	2008-9	University of Wisconsin, Madison	associate professor	TRUE	"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University"
Adam	Shapiro	2011-12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postdoctoral fellow	Reese	William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Adrian	Weimer	2010-11	University of Mississippi	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
Alan	Taylor	2000-1	University of California, Davis	professor	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution
Albrecht	Koschnik	2009-10	Library Company of Philadelphia	fellow	ASECS	American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
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
Alexandra	Socarides	2004-5	Rutgers University	Ph.D. candidate	Botein	"Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project"
Alison	Klaum	2010-11	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Allison	Malcom	2008-9	University of Illinois-Chicago	PhD candidate	Legacy	"A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870."
Allison	Lange	2011-12	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	AHPCS	Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920
Allison	Stagg	2009-10	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
Alpen	Razi	2012-13	University of Toronto	PhD candidate	Legacy	Colored Citizens of the World
Amanda	Bilby	2007-8	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families"
Amber	LaPiana	2011-12	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Mapping Literary Regionalism
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
Andrew	Lewis	2000-1	Yale University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Antiques of State: Archaeology in Early Republican America
Angela	George	2007-8	University of Maryland	PhD candidate	Last	"The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893"
Angela	Hudson	2004-5	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Peterson	"Indians. Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s"
Ann	Johnson	2002-3	Fordham University	assistant professor	Stephen Botein	Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Anne	Baker	1999-00	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Botein	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum 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
Anne	Verplanck	2011-12	Penn State University	associate professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Anthony	Szczesiul	2005-6	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	associate professor	Peterson	Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
April	Masten	2008-9	State University of New York, Stony Brook	associate professor	Peterson	"The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture."
April	Masten	2001-2		visiting assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	The Work of Art
Arden	Stern	2009-10	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
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
Barbara	Hochman	2001-2	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	senior lecturer	NEMLA	Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution
Benjamin	Cooper	2011-12	Washington University in St Louis	lecturer	Peterson	Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
Benjamin	Irvin	2000-1	Brandeis University	PhD candidate	Peterson	Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress
Benjamin	Fagan	2008-9	University of Virginia	PhD candidate	Tracy	"'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860."
Beth	Schweiger	2003-4	University of Arkansas	assistant professor	Peterson	Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Beth	Schweiger	2008-9	University of Arkansas	associate professor	TRUE	"Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Betsy	Klimasmith	2008-9	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Botein	"Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction."
Brandon	Johnson	2002-3	University of Chicago	PhD candidate	Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson	Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848 -1893
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Brian	Luskey	2003-4	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Brian	Valencia	2012-13	Yale University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Brian	Carroll	2008-9	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763."
Brian	Luskey	2012-13	West Virginia University	assistant professor	Tracy	Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
Bridget	Ford	2002-3	University of California, Davis	PhD candidate	Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow	American Heartland: The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in Cincinnati and Louisville, 1810-1870
Brigitte	Fielder	2011-12	Cornell University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Britt	Rusert	2011-12	Temple University	postdoc fellow	Peterson	Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
Bryan	Curd	2010-11	Harrison Middleton University	tutor	Drawn-to-Art	Facing Death: Portraiture and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850
Caitlin	Rosenthal	2010-11	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Botein	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Candice	Harrison	2006-7	Emory University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets, 1770-1859
Carolyn	Eastman	2008-9	University of Texas	assistant professor	Last	"Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World."

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