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2012-13

Last name	First name	Date	Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
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
Apap	Christopher	2012-13	Peterson	Oakland University	special lecturer	The Genius of the Place
Beetham	Sarah	2012-13	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
Bowen	Nancy	2012	Jay and Deborah Last	Brooklyn, NY	mixed media artist	Series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs"
Brevoort	Deborah	2012	Baron	North Bergen, NJ	playwright	Research for a historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in shaping American identity
Castiglia	Christopher	2012-13	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Pennsylvania State University	liberal arts research professor of English	The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions
Christ	Birte	2012-13	Ebeling	Justus-Liebig-University Giessen	assistant professor	A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849
Clark	Justin	2012-13	Last	University of Southern California	Ph.D. candidate	Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870
Clarke	Frances	2012-13	Last	University of Sydney	lecturer	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Croxall	Christine	2012-13	Peterson	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
D'Alessandro	Michael	2012-13	Last	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
Den Hartog	Jonathan	2012-13	AHPCS	Northwestern College	associate professor	Transatlantic Antijacobinism
Elkins	Ansel	2012	Hearst	Greensboro, NC	poet	A collection of poems about the lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Farrell	Molly	2012-13	ASECS	Ohio State University	assistant professor	Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
Finley	James	2012-13	Packer	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing
Grainger	Brett	2012-13	Last	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Gray	Myron	2012-13	Peterson	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	French Music in Federal Philadelphia
Hardy	Molly	2012-13	NEMLA	Southwestern University	postdoctoral fellow	Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
Harley	Anne	2012	Hearst	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	True Witness: A multi-choral civil rights cantata inspired by the texts of Charlotte Forten
Harris	Mazie	2012-13	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Hernandez	Melanie	2012-13	Drawn to Art	University of Washington, Seattle	Ph.D. candidate	Currier & Ives's 'Darktown' Series: Recovering White Capital through Violent Satire
Highland	Kristen	2012-13	Botein	New York University	Ph.D. candidate	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City
Hunter	Christopher	2012-13	Reese	California Institute of Technology	assistant professor	A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
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
Lewis	Randi	2012-13	Peterson	University of Virginia	Ph.D. candidate	To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
Linker	Jessica	2012-13	Last	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
Luck	Patrick	2012-13	Peterson	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate	The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
Luskey	Brian	2012-13	Tracy	West Virginia University	assistant professor	Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
Mandell	Daniel	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Truman State University	professor	The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
Manion	Jen	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Connecticut College	assistant professor	Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
McLaren	Scott	2012-13	Botein	York University	associate professor	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Morgan-Owens	Jessie	2012-13	AAS-NEH	Nanyang Technological University	assistant professor	Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
Odle	Mairin	2012-13	Last	New York University	Ph.D. candidate	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
Parfait	Claire	2012-13	Reese	Universite de Paris 13	professor	African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography
Peterson	Dawn	2012-13	Hench	New York University	Ph.D. in American studies	Unusual Sympathies: Settler Imperialism, Slavery, and the Politics of Adoption in the Early U.S. Republic
Phillips	Christopher	2012-13	Lapides	Lafayette College	assistant professor	The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850
Razi	Alpen	2012-13	Legacy	University of Toronto	PhD candidate	Colored Citizens of the World
Reid	Catherine	2012	Baron	Asheville, NC	writer, essayist	Research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823).
Sivils	Matthew Wynn	2012-13	Schiller	Iowa State University	assistant professor	The Rise of American Environmental Literature, 1782-1847
Smith	Mikki	2012-13	Peterson	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Ph.D. candidate	Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power': Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
Snyder	Christina	2012-13	Peterson	Indiana University, Bloomington	assistant professor	The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
Socarides	Alexandra	2012-13	Last	University of Missouri	assistant professor	The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
Thompson	Mark	2012-13	Peterson	University of Groningen	assistant professor	Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America
Valencia	Brian	2012-13	Last	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Whiting	Gloria	2012-13	Peterson	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Zittlau	Andrea	2012-13	Ebeling	University of Rostock	research assistant	Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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