Fellows Directory

Over 1,400 AAS fellowships have been awarded since the program's inception in 1972. Each fellow's institutional affiliation and position at the time of the fellowship is listed.

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Name Date Fellowship Project
David Weir
PhD Candidate, Princeton University
1984-85 Hiatt The Covenant in New England, 1620-80
Barbara M. Weisberg
Writer and Producer, New York, NY
1998 Wallace Talking to the Dead: A non-fiction children's book about Kate and Maggie Fox
Andrew Wells
Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, University of Greifswald
2019-20 Ebeling Localising Liberty: Freedom in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
Holly Wendt
Novelist, Annville, PA
2014 Baron Holystone: A novel based on the early eighteenth century pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy
Aubrey Wertheim
Playwright, Oberlin, OH
1996 Wallace A full length one woman show about Fanny Fern, the first female American columnist
Carola Wessel
Research Librarian, Georg August University of Göttingen
2002-03 Peterson Bibliography and Editions of German Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700-1830
Michael D. West
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
1985-86 Peterson Thoreau and the Search for the Language of Nature, 1690-1865
Ellen Westbrook
Assistant Professor, Southern Mississippi University
1992-93 Peterson Cultural Captives: Euro Amer Indian Literary Landscapes
Charles Wetherell
PhD Candidate, University of New Hampshire
1978-79 Daniels A Social History of the Early American Press
Daniel Wewers
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
2005-06 Peterson Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
Karen Weyler
PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1995-96 Botein Issues of Privacy and Publicity in the Early American Novel
Rachel Wheeler
PhD Candidate, Yale University
1996-97 Peterson Forgotten Conversation: The Indian European Negotiation of Religion in the Eighteenth Century Northeast
Shane White
Lecturer, University of Sydney
1990-91 Peterson Black Festivals in the United States, 1750-1860
Gloria Whiting
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
2012-13 Peterson 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
Ellen Wiener
Painter, Printmaker, Book Artist, Princeton, NJ
2002 Hearst A new 'Book of Hours' using imagery from nineteenth century sources
Andrew Wildermuth
Doctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
2024-25 Packer Malleability in Antebellum Periodical Cultures
Steven Wilf
PhD Candidate, Yale University
1988-89 Hiatt Public Executions and the Rituals of Order in the Late 18th Century
Kriota Willberg
Choreographer and Cartoonist, New York, NY
2006 Hearst Updated version for a performance of the 1866 Broadway production of 'The Black Crook' 
Daniel Williams
Associate Professor, University of Mississippi
1993-94 AAS-ASECS The Theft of Authorship
Harry Williams
PhD Candidate, Brown University
1985-86 Haven Charles Lenox Remond and the Community of Female Abolitionists
J. Gary Williams
Associate Professor, University of Idaho
1983-84 Haven James Fenimore Cooper's Notions of the Americans
Susan S. Williams
Associate Professor, Ohio State University
1997-98 Botein Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00
Trudy Williams
Playwright, Leeds, MA
2019 Baron Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Performance Poet, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Wallace Life and Times of Lucy Terry
Jennifer Wilson
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
2009-10 Peterson Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; and Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'
Lisa H. Wilson
Professor, Connecticut College
2010-11 AAS-NEH Cinderella's Family
Monique Wimby
Mellon Data Fellow, Cornell University
2024-25 Korzenik "Git in the Woods”: Enslaved Women’s Epistemologies of Self, Community and World
Robert Winans
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
1984-85 Boni Checklist of Catalogues of Books printed in 18th-century American Newspapers
Robert Winans
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
1979-80 Daniels A Descriptive Checklist of Book Catalouges Separately Printed in American, 1639-1800, Part 2
Julie Winch
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1987-88 Peterson American Free Black and Emigration to Haiti in the 1820's
Jordan Wingate
PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
2018-19 Tracy The Periodical Origins of the American Self
Louis Winkler
Astronomer, Pennsylvania State University
1978-79 Daniels Popular Astronomical and Astrological Thought in New England before 1800
Michael B. Winship
Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
1993-94 AAS-NEH The American Book in the Industrial Era
Michael B. Winship
Professor, University of Texas
2009-10 AAS-NEH Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950
Peter Wirzbicki
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper/Schmidt Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
2014-15 Packer Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists
Kelly Wisecup
Assistant Professor of English, University of North Texas
2014-15 Peterson Objects of Encounter
Darbyshire Witek
PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
2024-25 Botein Reading American Racial Thought in the Memory and Myth of the Underground Railroad
Ann Withington
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
1991-92 AAS-NEH Elite and Popular Culture in the Confederation and Early National Period
Matthew Wittmann
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
2005-06 Peterson American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century
Barbara Wojtusik
Teacher, Eastern High School, Bristol, CT
1993-94 Peterson The Somers Mutiny
Stephanie Wolff
Visual Artist, Norwich, VT
2013 Last (Artist) Artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of Anna Blackwood Howell
John Wolffe
Lecturer, York College
1988-89 Peterson Aspects of Anti Catholicism in the United States, 1830-60
Wendy A. Woloson
Curator, Library Company of Philadelphia
2005-06 Peterson Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Ilyon Woo
PhD Candidate, Columbia University
2004-05 Peterson "Mother against Mother"
Jewon Woo
Professor of English, Lorian County Community College
2024-25 Korzenik (Re)Constructing Black Childhood: Young Readers and Contributors of Black Newspapers
Joseph S. Wood
Associate Professor, George Mason University
1988-89 Peterson The Literary Origins of New England Village Symobolism
Marcus Wood
, Worcester College, Oxford University
1992-93 Peterson Aboliton Propaganda in Britiain and the United States, 1780-1860
Andrea Woods
Choreographer , Brooklyn, NY
1996 Wallace Ballad of the Black Cowboy
Walter W. Woodward
PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
1997-98 Peterson The Magic in Colonization: Religion, Science and the Occult in the Creation of New England Culture
Ben Wright
Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Texas, Dallas
2022-23 Last Empires of Souls: The United States, Britain, and West African Colonization
Ben Wright
Assistant Professor, Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College
2015-16 Peterson Antislavery and American Salvation
Nazera Sadiq Wright
Associate Professor of English, University of Kentucky
2020-21 AAS-NEH Early African American Women Writers and their Libraries
Nazera Sadiq Wright
Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky
2013-14 Ford Girlhood in African American Literature, 1827-1949
Robert Wright
Professor, Michigan State University
1974-75 Daniels Music and Broadside Ballad Collections for Ballads and Songs of the Western Migration, vol 3
Nicholas Wrightson
PhD Candidate, Jesus College, Oxford University
2006-07 Peterson Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65
Karin A. Wulf
Assistant Professor, American University
2000-01 AAS-ASECS In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America
Hilary E. Wyss
Associate Professor, Auburn University
2006-07 AAS-ASECS Native Literacy and Education in Early America
Nick Yablon
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
2002-03 AAS-NEH American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
Elisabeth Yang
Recent PhD, Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
2022-23 Alstott Morgan Constructing Moral Babies: Medical and Pedagogical Discourses on Infancy in America, 1810s-1920s
Zongsui Yang
Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University
1982-83 Haven History and Source Book on the American Revolution in Chinese
Lynda Yankaskas
PhD Candidate, Brandeis University
2007-08 Botein Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851
Jonathan Yeager
Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
2014-15 Reese Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture
Lauren Yee
Playwright, San Francisco, CA
2009 Baron interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America"
Kariann Akemi Yokota
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
1999-00 Peterson A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation, 1789-1830
Helena Yoo Roth
PhD Candidate in History, CUNY Graduate Center
2023-24 Peterson American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Rosetta Young
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Writing Program, Haverford College
2020-21 Last The Game of Human Life: Modern cultures of Childhood and Professional Society
Shana Youngdahl
Poet and Author, Farmington, ME
2017 Hearst Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry
Rafia M. Zafar
Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
1999-00 Peterson 'And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
Rosemarie Zagarri
Associate Professor of History, George Mason University
1996-97 AAS-ASECS Gender and the First Party System
Jeremy Zallen
Associate Professor of History, Lafayette College
2022-23 Peterson Saltwater Marronage: Making the Pacific into a Fugitive Geography
Magdalena Zapedowska
PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2018-19 Botein Black Dissent and Black Freedom: Revolution, Emigration, Reform, 1850-1870
Jeanette Zaragoza
Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
2024-25 Alstott Morgan 8000
Ronald J. Zboray
Adjunct Professor in Social Science, Pace University
1983-84 Boni A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the Reading Public for American Novels, 1837-57
Ronald J. Zboray
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington
1992-93 AAS-NEH Literary Enterprise in Antebellum America: Publishers, Novelists, and the Reading Public
Madeline Zehnder
PhD Candidate in English, University of Virginia
2019-20 Botein Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1840
Eran Zelnik
Lecturer in History, California State University, Chico
2019-20 Last Republic of Mirth: Humor, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750-1850
Sergei Zhuk
Associate Professor of History, Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine
1996-97 Peterson 'Brothers in Divorce': Quakers' Attitudes toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Dominique Zino
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
2011-12 Last 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James
Andrea Zittlau
Research Assistant, University of Rostock
2012-13 Ebeling Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
David Zonderman
Assistant Professor of History,
1989-90 Peterson Uneasy Allies: Working Class Activists and Middle Class Reformersin Nineteenth-Century Boston and New York
Clay Zuba
PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
2015-16 Last Apess' Eulogy, Narrative Visualcy, and the Shpaes of Sovereignty
Mary Zundo
PhD Candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2007-08 Last Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier