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AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellows

			Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
Adelman	Joseph	2011-12	AAS-NEH	Johns Hopkins University	lecturer	Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Anthony	David	2012-13	AAS-NEH	SIU Carbondale	associate professor	The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
Augst	Thomas	2013-14	AAS-NEH	New York University	associate professor	A Drunkard's Story: Social reform and mass culture in nineteenth-century America
Banks	Kenneth	2005-6	AAS-NEH	University of North Carolina, Asheville	visiting assistant professor	Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
Basch	Norma	1990-91	AAS-NEH	Rutgers University	associate professor	Framing American Divorce: Rules, Realities, and Mythologies, 1770-1870
Bascom	Benjamin	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Ball State University	assistant professor of English	Feeling Singular: Masculinity and Desire in the Early Republic, 1786-1822
Baseler	Marilyn	1999-00	AAS-NEH	University of Texas at Austin	assistant professor	Strangers within our gates': America's Immigrants, 1776-1820
Beales	Ross	1977-78	AAS-NEH	College of the Holy Cross	assistant professor	Concepts of Childhood and Youth of NewEngland
Bell	Richard	2007-8	AAS-NEH	University of Maryland	assistant professor	Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States
Bennett	Paula	1996-97	AAS-NEH	University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale	associate professor	Dissenting Angels: The Emergence of Modern Subjectivity in American Women's Poetry, 1850-00
Bercovitch	Sacvan	1986-87	AAS-NEH	Harvard University	professor	The Literary Market in 19th-Century America
Blumenthal	Susanna	2016-17	AAS-NEH	University of Minnesota	professor of law and associate professor of history	Humbug: A Legal History
Boggs	Colleen	2015-16	AAS-NEH	Dartmouth College	professor	Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature
Bollettino	Maria	2013-14	AAS-NEH	Framingham State University	assistant professor	Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War
Bonner	Robert	2006-7	AAS-NEH	Dartmouth College	visiting assistant professor	Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty
Brown	Richard	1977-78	AAS-NEH	University of Connecticut	professor	Communications Networks in Pre-Industrial America
Brown	Richard	1992-93	AAS-NEH	University of Connecticut	professor	The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in Early America,1650-1865
Bynum	Tara	2016-17	AAS-NEH	Rutgers University	postdoctoral fellow in English	Reading Pleasures
Childs	Greg	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Brandeis University	assistant professor of history	Scenes of Sedition: Racial Politics in Bahia during the Age of Revolution
Chow	Juliana	2017-18	AAS-NEH	Saint Louis University	associate professor of English	Lacunae: Vital Language and the Casualties of Natural History
Chu	Jonathan	1987-88	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Where's Mine?: Debt in Post-Revolutionary Massachusetts
Cockrell	Dale	1983-84	AAS-NEH	Middlebury College	assistant professor	The Journals of the Hutchinson Family
Cockrell	Dale	1994-95	AAS-NEH	College of William and Mary	David N. and Margaret C. Bottoms professor	Demons of Disorder: The Early Blackface Minstrel and His World
Cohen	Daniel	2007-8	AAS-NEH	Case Western Reserve University	associate professor	Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America
Cohen	Lara	2011-12	AAS-NEH	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures
Cohen	Patricia	1987-88	AAS-NEH	UC Santa Barbara	associate professor	Safety and Danger: Women in Public
Cooke	Nym	1992-93	AAS-NEH	Eagle Hill School		Sacred Music in New England, 1720-1780: From Ritual Towards Art
Cooper	Abigail	2016-17	AAS-NEH	Brandeis University	assistant professor of history	‘Lord, Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
Corman	Catherine	2000-1	AAS-NEH	Harvard University	assistant professor	Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851
Crain	Patricia	2005-6	AAS-NEH	University of Minnesota	associate professor	Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
Crosby	Sara	2005-6	AAS-NEH	University of Notre Dame	Ph.D. candidate	The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860
Dayton	Cornelia	2004-5	AAS-NEH	University of Connecticut	associate professor	Self and Sanity in Early New England
DeLombard	Jeannine	2007-8	AAS-NEH	University of Toronto	associate professor	Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War
DeLucia	Christine	2015-16	AAS-NEH	Mount Holyoke College	assistant professor	The Itineraries: Seasons of History in the Native Northeast and Ezra Stiles' New England
DiGirolamo	Vincent	2000-1	AAS-NEH	Colgate University	assistant professor	Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys
Dillon	Elizabeth	2010-11	AAS-NEH	Northeastern University	associate professor	Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Dippold	Steffi	2020-21	AAS-NEH	Kansas State University	associate professor of English	Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America, 1640-1700
Eastman	Carolyn	2011-12	AAS-NEH	University of Texas	assistant professor	Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print
Erkkila	Betsy	2014-15	AAS-NEH	Northwestern University	professor of English	Imagining the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Insurrectionary America
Fisher	Linford	2014-15	AAS-NEH	Brown University	assistant professor of history	The Land of the Unfree: Africans, Indians, and the Varieties of Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England and the Atlantic World
Formisano	Ronald	1976-77	AAS-NEH	Clark University	associate professor	Massachusetts Political Culture, 1790-1840
Franklin	Wayne	1994-95	AAS-NEH	Northeastern University	Davis distinguished professor	Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
Freehling	William	1989-90	AAS-NEH	Johns Hopkins University	professor	The Road to Disunion, Vol 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-61
Friend	Craig	2019-20	AAS-NEH	North Carolina State University	professor of history	Lullaby of Freedom: Lunsford Lane’s America
Garcia	John	2019-20	AAS-NEH	Florida State University	assistant professor of English	Without Order: Booksellers and the Failures of the Early American Book Trade, 1679-1840
Gilmore-Lehne	William	1990-91	AAS-NEH	Richard Stockton College of New Jersey	associate professor	The State of Knowledge on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
Ginsberg	Lesley	1997-98	AAS-NEH	Stanford University	recent Ph.D.	The Romance of Dependency: Childhood and the Ideology of Love in American Literature, 1825-1870
Graff	Harvey	1988-89	AAS-NEH	University of Texas, San Antonio	professor	Conflicting Paths: The Transformations of Growing Up, 1750-20
Grandjean	Katherine	2017-18	AAS-NEH	Wellesley College	assistant professor of history	The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution
Greenspan	Ezra	2016-17	AAS-NEH	Southern Methodist University	Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English	The Lives and Times of Frederick Douglass and His Family: A Composite Biography
Hall	David	1981-82	AAS-NEH	Boston University	professor	History of Popular Culture in Colonial New England
Harvey	Samantha	2017-18	AAS-NEH	Boise State University	professor of English	Reading the Book of Nature: Imagination, Observation, and Conservation in Transatlantic Romanticism
Harvey	Sean	2010-11	AAS-NEH	Northern Illinois University	visiting assistant professor	American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
Hazard	Sonia	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Franklin & Marshall College	visiting assistant professor of religious studies	The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America
Heller	Lee	1989-90	AAS-NEH	Mercer College	assistant professor	The Novel as Popular Literature: American Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Henretta	James	1984-85	AAS-NEH	Boston University	professor	Law and the Creation of the Liberal State in America, 1770-1870
Herrington	Eldrid	2003-4	AAS-NEH	University College, Dublin	assistant professor	Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation
Heyrman	Christine	1979-80	AAS-NEH	UC Irvine	assistant professor	The Culture of Charity: Merchants, Ministers, and the Social Order of New England,1680-1740
Holton	Woody	1999-00	AAS-NEH	Bloomsburg University	assistant professor	Republics of Hope and the Empire of Despair: A Social Interpretation of the United States Constitution
Hoopes	James	1983-84	AAS-NEH	Babson College	professor	Consciousness in New England
Howell	William	2020-21	AAS-NEH	Boston University	associate professor of English	Worldly Muses: American Occasional Poetry from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Hughes	Amy	2015-16	AAS-NEH	Brooklyn College (CUNY)	associate professor	An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Huston	Reeve	2017-18	AAS-NEH	Duke University	associate professor of history	Reforging American Democracy
Jarvis	Michael	2003-4	AAS-NEH	University of Rochester	assistant professor	'In the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815
Johnson	Linck	1984-85	AAS-NEH	Colgate University	associate professor	Walden in Its Time
Johnson	Paul	1985-86	AAS-NEH	Princeton University	guest lecturer	From Yeoman to Factory Hand: Studies in Early Industrial Society
Kamil	Neil	2012-13	AAS-NEH	University of Texas at Austin	associate professor	Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
Karlsen	Carol	1994-95	AAS-NEH	University of Michigan	associate professor	Relations of Power, the Power of Relations: Iroquois Communities in Western New York, 1750-00
Kelley	Sean	2008-9	AAS-NEH	Hartwick College	associate professor	Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora
Kiechle	Melanie	2014-15	AAS-NEH	Virginia Tech University	assistant professor of history	Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century America
Kimnach	Wilson	1993-94	AAS-NEH	Clark University	affiliate professor	Literature of the Sermon in Eighteenth-Century America
King	John	1980-81	AAS-NEH	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Puritan Psychomachy: Themes of Piety and Mental Pathology in Early America
Lacey	Barbara	1996-97	AAS-NEH	Saint Joseph College	associate professor	Religious Imagery Transformed: The Eighteenth-Century American Illustrated Imprint
Larkin	Edward	2006-7	AAS-NEH	University of Delaware	assistant professor	The Loyalist Origins of United States Culture
Larkin	Jack	2011-12	AAS-NEH	Clark University	affiliate professor	David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
Laurie	Bruce	1993-94	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	professor	The Search for Security in Nineteenth-Century America
Leavenworth	Peter	2007-8	AAS-NEH	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
Levy	Barry	1998-99	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	associate professor	The Ordeal of Early American Equality: Orphans, Poor Children, and the Massachusetts Labor Regime, 1630-1820
Lowance	Mason	1976-77	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	professor	Symbolism in American Writings from the Puritans to the Civil War
Lukasik	Christopher	2004-5	AAS-NEH	Boston University	assistant professor	Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850
Main	Gloria	1978-79	AAS-NEH		independent researcher	The Massachusetts Farmer and his Family
Mandell	Daniel	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Truman State University	professor	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Manegold	Catherine	2005-6	AAS-NEH	Emory University	professor	In an Office Built by Slaves
Manion	Jen	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Connecticut College	assistant professor	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Marini	Stephen	1988-89	AAS-NEH	Wellesley College	professor	Religion in the American Revolution
Marini	Stephen	1988-89	AAS-NEH	Wellesley College	professor	Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America
Martini	Elspeth	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Montclair State University	professor of history	Humanitarian Authority and Indigenous Dispossession in the U.S. and British Empires
McNamara	Martha	2004-5	AAS-NEH	University of Maine	associate professor	New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850
Meldrum	Barbara	1990-91	AAS-NEH	University of Iowa	professor	Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century American Progress
Michelon	Christina	2019-20	AAS-NEH		postdoctoral fellow	Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America
Moore	Sean	2014-15	AAS-NEH	University of New Hampshire	associate professor of history	Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade
Morgan	Philip	1996-97	AAS-NEH	Florida State University	professor	The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century
Morgan-Owens	Jessie	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
Moskowitz	Marina	2013-14	AAS-NEH	University of Glasgow	associate professor	Seed Money: Improvement and Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century American Garden
Moynihan	Kenneth	1992-93	AAS-NEH	Assumption College	professor	A History of Worcester
Mucher	Christen	2015-16	AAS-NEH	Smith College	assistant professor	Before American History
Murphy	Sharon	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Providence College	professor of history and classics	Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South
Murrin	John	2001-02	AAS-NEH	Princeton	professor	Crisis and Upheaval in the English Atlantic World, 1673-1692
Nelson	Adam	2008-9	AAS-NEH	University of Wisconsin, Madison	associate professor	Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University
Nerone	John	1996-97	AAS-NEH	Institute of Communications Research, IL	associate professor	US Newspapers from the Revolution to the Industrial Revolution
Neuman	Meredith	2008-9	AAS-NEH	Clark University	assistant professor	Letter and Spirit
Neussendorfer	Margaret	1982-83	AAS-NEH	University of Texas, Permian Basin	associate professor	Bibliography of the Works of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Nissenbaum	Stephen	1991-92	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	professor	Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
O'Brien-Kehoe	Jean	1998-99	AAS-NEH	University of Minnesota	associate professor	Changing Identities: Native American Peoples in Early New England
O'Connell	Barry	1995-96	AAS-NEH	Amherst College	professor	Surviving Identites: Native American Writers and Their People's Survival, 1780-1840
Onuf	Peter	1984-85	AAS-NEH	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	assistant professor	The Northwest Ordinance
Pawley	Emily	2009-10	AAS-NEH	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860
Piggush	Yvette	2011-12	AAS-NEH	Florida International University	assistant professor	We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850
Pratt	Lloyd	2009-10	AAS-NEH	Michigan State University	assistant professor	The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860
Purvis	Thomas	1987-88	AAS-NEH	Auburn University, Montgomery	assistant professor	A Decade of Conflict:Anglo-American Mobilization in the Era of the Seven Years' War, 1754-1764
Reiss	Benjamin	2001-02	AAS-NEH	Tulane	assistant professor	Antebellum Literary Culture and the Rise of the Asylum
Reynolds	David	1982-83	AAS-NEH	Northwestern University	assistant professor	Beneath the American Renaissance
Rezek	Joseph	2019-20	AAS-NEH	Boston University	associate professor of English	The Racialization of Print
Richards	Eliza	2002-3	AAS-NEH	Boston University	assistant professor	Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America
Roberts	Brian	1998-99	AAS-NEH	California State University, Sacramento	assistant professor	Psalms, Reels and Glees: Popular Music and American Identity from the Colonial Era through the Civil War
Roberts	Wendy	2015-16	AAS-NEH	SUNY-Albany	assistant professor	Redeeming Verse: The Poetics of Revivalism
Rockman	Seth	2006-7	AAS-NEH	Brown University	assistant professor	Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy
Roeber	Anthony	1978-79	AAS-NEH	Princeton University	instructor	Law, Ideology and Religion among German Americans in Revolutionary America, 1729-1814
Rojas	Martha	2004-5	AAS-NEH	Sweet Briar College		Diplomatic Letters
Rothman	Joshua	2005-6	AAS-NEH	University of Alabama	assistant professor	Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America
Salisbury	Neal	1995-96	AAS-NEH	Smith College	professor	From Frontier to Society: Natives, Settlers and the Transformation of Southern New Engand
Schrader	Arthur	1979-80	AAS-NEH		performer and singing history scholar	The Isaiah Thomas Ballad Collection
Schroeder	Jonathan	2020-21	AAS-NEH	University of Warwick	assistant professor of English and comparative literary studies	The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
Schuetze	Sarah	2017-18	AAS-NEH	University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	assistant professor of English	Calamity Howl: Fear of Illness in Early American Writing
Schweiger	Beth	2008-9	AAS-NEH	University of Arkansas	associate professor	Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century
Scott	Donald	1981-82	AAS-NEH	North Carolina State University	associate professor	Public Lectures and the Formation of American Culture, 1830-1870
Seelye	John	1985-86	AAS-NEH	University of Florida	graduate research professor	The River in the Early American Republic
Senchyne	Jonathan	2013-14	AAS-NEH	University of Wisconsin-Madison	assistant professor	Our Paper Allegories: A Sense for the Material Text in Antebellum American Literature
Shalhope	Robert	1995-96	AAS-NEH	Oklahoma State University	George Lynn Cross professor	A Yeoman's Life: Hiram Harwood, 1806-1837
Sheehan	Tanya	2009-10	AAS-NEH	Rutgers University	assistant professor	Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Shell	Marc	1981-82	AAS-NEH	SUNY Buffalo	associate professor	Money and Symbolism in America: Case Studies
Shoemaker	Nancy	2006-7	AAS-NEH	University of Connecticut	professor	The Whaling History of New England Indians
Sievens	Mary Beth	2009-10	AAS-NEH	SUNY-Fredonia	associate professor	The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
Sinha	Manisha	2004-5	AAS-NEH	University of Massachusetts	associate professor	Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865
Slauter	Will	2014-15	AAS-NEH	University of Paris 8 (Saint Denis)	lecturer in English and American studies	Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective
Smith	Billy	1991-92	AAS-NEH	Montana State University	professor	Fugitives from Slavery in the Eighteenth Century Mid Atlantic Region
Smith-Rosenberg	Carroll	1976-77	AAS-NEH	University of Pennsylvania	associate professor	Prescribed and Actual Gender Roles in the American Family, 1760-1895
Sovine	Melanie	1983-84	AAS-NEH	MacNeil Hospital	clinical anthropologist	The Primitive Baptists and the Anti-Mason Party
Stewart	Whitney	2019-20	AAS-NEH	University of Texas at Dallas	assistant professor of historical studies	The Home that Slavery Made: How Plantation Slavery Racialized the American Home
Suazo	Matthew	2018-19	AAS-NEH	Kenyon College	visiting assistant professor in English	Wetland Americas: Literature, Race, and the Mississippi River Valley in Translation, 1542-1884
Taylor	Alan	1989-90	AAS-NEH	Boston University	assistant professor	William Cooper's Town
Teute	Fredrika	1997-98	AAS-NEH	Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture	editor of publications	Life on the Margins: Margaret Bayard Smith's Vision of Early Washington Society
Thornton	Tamara	2020-21	AAS-NEH	State University of New York, Buffalo	professor of history	Globes and the Global Imagination in America
Valeri	Mark	1989-90	AAS-NEH	Lewis and Clark College	assistant professor	The Eighteenth-Century Clergy and Economics in New England
Van Broekhoven	Deborah	1986-87	AAS-NEH	Brown University	associate professor	Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network
Vaughan	Alden	1982-83	AAS-NEH	Columbia University	professor	Indians and Europeans in British North America
Volk	Kyle	2010-11	AAS-NEH	University of Montana	assistant professor	Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
Walker	Rachel	2020-21	AAS-NEH	University of Hartford	assistant professor of history	Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America
Waller	Altina	2001-2	AAS-NEH	University of Connecticut	professor	Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America
Walsh	Megan	2019-20	AAS-NEH	St. Bonaventure University	professor of English	Bad Archives: Extra-Illustration and the History of Information Management in the U.S.
Warner	Michael	1986-87	AAS-NEH	Northwestern University	assistant professor	The Letters of the Republic
Weierman	Karen	2000-1	AAS-NEH	Worcester State College	assistant professor	One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
Weimer	Adrian	2017-18	AAS-NEH	Providence College	associate professor of history	Godly Petitions: Puritanism and the Crisis of the Restoration in America
Wilson	Lisa	2010-11	AAS-NEH	Connecticut College	professor	Cinderella's Family
Winship	Michael	1993-94	AAS-NEH	University of Texas, Austin	associate professor	The American Book in the Industrial Era
Winship	Michael	2009-10	AAS-NEH	University of Texas	professor	Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950
Withington	Ann	1991-92	AAS-NEH	Michigan State University	assistant professor	Elite and Popular Culture in the Confederation and Early National Period
Wright	Nazera	2020-21	AAS-NEH	University of Kentucky	associate professor of English	Early African American Women Writers and their Libraries
Yablon	Nick	2002-3	AAS-NEH	University of Chicago	Ph.D. candidate	American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
Zboray	Ronald	1992-93	AAS-NEH	Texas at Arlington	associate professor of history	Literary Enterprise in Antebellum America: Publishers, Novelists, and the Reading Public

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