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
Brian	Valencia	2012-13	Yale University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Mikki	Smith	2012-13	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	PhD candidate	Peterson	"Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power'": Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Frances	Clarke	2012-13	University of Sydney	lecturer	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Christopher	Apap	2012-13	Oakland University	special lecturer	Peterson	The Genius of the Place
Jonathan	Den Hartog	2012-13	Northwestern College	associate professor	AHPCS	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Brian	Luskey	2012-13	West Virginia University	assistant professor	Tracy	Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
Melanie	Hernandez	2012-13	University of Washington, Seattle	PhD candidate	Drawn-to-Art	Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
Christina	Snyder	2012-13	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	Peterson	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Michael	D'Alessandro	2012-13	Boston University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
Richard	Bell	2012-13	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Peterson	The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Molly	Farrell	2012-13	Ohio State University	assistant professor	ASECS	Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
David	Anthony	2012-13	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	TRUE	The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
Christopher	Phillips	2012-13	Lafayette College	assistant professor	Lapides	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Brett	Grainger	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Christine	Croxall	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Peterson	Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
Kristen	Highland	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Botein	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York city
Neil	Kamil	2012-13	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	TRUE	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Jessica	Linker	2012-13	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	Last	'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
Gloria	Whiting	2012-13	Harvard University	PhD candidate	Peterson	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Mazie	Harris	2012-13	Brown University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Myron	Gray	2012-13	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate	Peterson	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Scott	McLaren	2012-13	York University	associate professor	Botein	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Daniel	Mandell	2012-13	Truman State University	professor	TRUE	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Alpen	Razi	2012-13	University of Toronto	PhD candidate	Legacy	Colored Citizens of the World
Christopher	Hunter	2012-13	California Institute of Technology	assistant professor	Reese	A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
Mairin	Odle	2012-13	New York University	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
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
Sarah	Beetham	2012-13	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
Jennifer	Manion	2012-13	Connecticut College	assistant professor	TRUE	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Molly	Hardy	2012-13	Southwestern University	post-doc fellow	NeMLA	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Claire	Parfait	2012-13	Universite de Paris 13	professor	Reese	African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography
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
Patrick	Luck	2012-13	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	Peterson	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
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
Jessie	Morgan-Owens	2012-13	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	TRUE	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
James	Finley	2012-13	University of New Hampshire	PhD candidate	Packer	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Matthew	Sivils	2012-13	Iowa State University	assistant professor	Schiller	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Sari	Altschuler	2011-12	City University of New York, The Graduate Center	PhD candidate	Legacy	National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
Steven	Smith	2011-12	University of Missouri	PhD candidate	Reese	A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
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
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
Anna	Stewart	2011-12	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Botein	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Matthew	Garrett	2011-12	Wesleyan University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic
Nicolas	Barreyre	2011-12	University Paris Ouest Nanterre	assistant professor	Tracy	Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Jeffrey	Groves	2011-12	Harvey Mudd College	professor	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
John	Leary	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Matthew	Amato	2011-12	University of Southern California	PhD candidate	Center for Historic American Visual Culture	Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s
Susan	Branson	2011-12	Syracuse University	associate professor	Peterson	Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
Joseph	Adelman	2011-12	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	TRUE	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789

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