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
Martha	Rojas	2004-5	Sweet Briar College		AAS-NEH	"Diplomatic Letters"
Michael	Komanecky	2007-8	independent scholar		Last	"Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions"
Catherine	Parisian	2008-9	independent scholar		Reese	"A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney."
Elizabeth	Reis	1999-00	University of Oregon	adjunct assistant professor	Legacy	Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions
Jack	Larkin	2011-12	Clark University	affiliate professor	TRUE	David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
Jill	Anderson	2003-4	Thomas Jefferson Foundation	assistant editor	Peterson	"Nothing Done!': The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Faith	Barrett	2006-7	Lawrence University	assistant professor	Botein	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Catherine	Kelly	1999-00	University of Oklahoma	assistant professor	Peterson	Things Useful and Ornamental: Gender, Culture, and Gentility in the Bourgeois Republic
Lloyd	Pratt	2009-10	Michigan State University	assistant professor	TRUE	The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860
Matthew	Garrett	2011-12	Wesleyan University	assistant professor	NEMLA	Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic
Peter	Messer	2007-8	Mississippi State University	assistant professor	ASECS	"Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America"
Richard	Bell	2007-8	University of Maryland	assistant professor	TRUE	"Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States"
Lois	Brown	2000-1	Mount Holyoke College	assistant professor	NEMLA	Made to Sell, Made to Save': The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature
Yvette	Piggush	2009-10	Florida International University	assistant professor	Peterson	We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840
Thomas	Augst	2004-5	University of Minnesota	assistant professor	Peterson	"The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship"
Kathryn	Koo	2005-6	Saint Mary's College of California	assistant professor	Peterson	In the House of God: Cotton Mather and the Making of Puritan Slavery
Jennifer	Manion	2012-13	Connecticut College	assistant professor	TRUE	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Karin	Wulf	2000-1	American University	assistant professor	ASECS	In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America
Susan	Parrish	2003-4	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Botein	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
Kyle	Volk	2010-11	University of Montana	assistant professor	TRUE	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Mark	Thompson	2012-13	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Peterson	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Elisa	Tamarkin	2002-3	University of California, Santa Barbara	assistant professor	Sigety Family	American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865
Jacqueline	Goldsby	2000-1	Cornell University	assistant professor	Peterson	A Spectacular Secret: The cultural Logic of Lynching in American Literature and Life
Jonathan	Sassi	1999-00	College of Staten Island/CUNY	assistant professor	ASECS	Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere
Lisa	Tetrault	2007-8	Carnegie Mellon University	assistant professor	Peterson	"Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895"
Brian	Luskey	2012-13	West Virginia University	assistant professor	Tracy	Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
Catherine	Corman	2000-1	Harvard University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851
Michael	Jarvis	2003-4	University of Rochester	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	'in the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815
David	Silverman	2005-6	George Washington University	assistant professor	ASECS	Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
Robin	Bernstein	2008-9	Harvard University	assistant professor	Last	"Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930."
Tanya	Sheehan	2009-10	Rutgers University	assistant professor	TRUE	Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Hester	Blum	2004-5	Penn State University	assistant professor	Reese	"The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination"
Christopher	Phillips	2012-13	Lafayette College	assistant professor	Lapides	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Timothy	Marr	1999-00	Western Connecticut State University	assistant professor	Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow	Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville
Margaret	Nash	2006-7	University of California, Riverdale	assistant professor	Peterson	Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875
Jessie	Morgan-Owens	2012-13	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	TRUE	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
Nicole	Eustace	2008-9	New York University	assistant professor	Peterson	"War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."
Christopher	Lukasik	2003-4	Boston University	assistant professor	Drawn-to-Art	Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850
Lara	Cohen	2011-12	Wayne State University	assistant professor	TRUE	Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures
Dawn	Coleman	2006-7	University of Tennessee	assistant professor	NEMLA	Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel
Megan	Nelson	2008-9	California State University, Fullerton	assistant professor	Last	"Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War."
Molly	Farrell	2012-13	Ohio State University	assistant professor	ASECS	Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
Vincent	DiGirolamo	2000-1	Colgate University	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Crying the News: Child Street Trading in America, 1830s-1890s
Carolyn	Eastman	2008-9	University of Texas	assistant professor	Last	"Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World."
Peter	Baldwin	2004-5	University of Connecticut	assistant professor	Tracy	"American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930"
Marina	Moskowitz	2005-6	University of Glasgow	assistant professor	Peterson	Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America
Martha	Schoolman	2006-7	Miami University	assistant professor	Peterson	American Abolitionist Geographies
Marilyn	Baseler	1999-00	University of Texas at Austin	assistant professor	AAS-NEH	Strangers within our gates': America's Immigrants, 1776-1820
David	Anthony	2005-6	SIU Carbondale	assistant professor	NEMLA	Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism
Carolyn	Eastman	2011-12	University of Texas	assistant professor	TRUE	Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print

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