AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship

AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships are for research on projects related to the American eighteenth century. The award is jointly funded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and AAS. ASECS membership is not required of applicants; awardees who are not already members must join. Degree candidates are not eligible.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Ross Michael Nedervelt Florida International University Adjunct Professor Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
2022-23 Elizabeth Bouldin Florida Gulf Coast University Associate Professor of History Teachers of the Light: Quaker Women Educators in the Age of Reason
2019-20 Hannah Muller Brandeis University Assistant Professor of History Alien Invasions and Revolutionary Contagion
2018-19 Nicholas Crawford Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse Postdoctoral Fellow Sustaining Slavery: Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean, c. 1775-1838
2017-18 Ken Miller Washington College Associate Professor The Strange Case of Bathsheba Spooner: A Tale of Sex and Murder in Revolutionary America
2016-17 Kate Mulry California State University, Bakersfield Assistant Professor of History Unwholesome Tinctures: Inoculation and Questions of Heredity in the Early Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic
2015-16 Brian Carroll Central Washington University Assistant Professor of History Burning the Hearts of the Dead: Medicine, Migration, and New England Vampire Belief, 1782-1819
2014-15 Adam Jortner Auburn University Assistant Professor of History Witchcraft and the Rise of American Religious Freedom, 1626-1789
2013-14 Sarah Crabtree San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of History Walled Gardens: The Society of Friends, Nationalism, and the Common School, 1770-1840
2012-13 Molly Farrell Ohio State University Assistant Professor Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in English America
2011-12 Michelle Burnham Santa Clara University Professor The Calculus of Risk: Temporality in the Revolutionary Atlantic and Pacific
2010-11 David J. Silverman George Washington University Associate Professor Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
2009-10 Albrecht Koschnik Library Company of Philadelphia American Conceptions of Civil Society, 1750-1850
2008-09 Natasha Hurley University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellow The Child of Circulation in American Literature: The Case of Robinson Crusoe
2007-08 Peter Messer Mississippi State University Assistant Professor Revolution by Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America
2006-07 John McCurdy Eastern Michigan University Assistant Professor The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early America
2006-07 Hilary E. Wyss Auburn University Associate Professor Native Literacy and Education in Early America
2005-06 David J. Silverman George Washington University Assistant Professor Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
2004-05 Jeffrey L. Pasley University of Missouri, Columbia Associate Professor Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828
2003-04 David Hancock University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor Oceans of Wine, Empires of Commerce: Madeira Wine and the Self-Organization of the Atlantic Market Economy, 1640-1815
2002-03 John Howe University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary Boston
2001-02 David Narrett University of Texas, Arlington Associate Professor Borderland Republics: Vermont, West Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union, 1760-1846
2000-01 Jared Gardner Ohio State University Assistant Professor The Literary Museum: Periodicals and the Unsettling of American Literature
2000-01 Karin A. Wulf American University Assistant Professor In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America
1999-00 Jonathan Sassi College of Staten Island Assistant Professor Clerical Communities and the Religious Public Sphere
1998-99 Martin C. Brückner University of Delaware Assistant Professor The Culture of Geographic Letters in Early America
1998-99 Mark R. Valeri Union Theological Seminary ET Thompson Professor Religion, Moral Discipline and the Market in Early America
1997-98 Warren McDougall University of Edinburgh Honorary Fellow The Scots Book Trade to Boston and New York in the 18th Century
1997-98 Patricia A. Crain Princeton University Assistant Professor The Story of A: Alphabetization and American Literature from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter
1996-97 Geoffrey Plank University of Cincinnati Associate Professor The Culture of Conquest, Acadia or Nova Scotia in the British Colonial Imagination, 1690-1759
1996-97 Rosemarie Zagarri George Mason University Associate Professor of History Gender and the First Party System
1995-96 Robert E. Shalhope Oklahoma State University George Lynn Cross Professor A Yeoman's Life: Hiram Harwood, 1806-1837
1995-96 Brett Charbeneau Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Journeyman Printer Williamsburg Imprints Program
1995-96 Ernest Freeberg Colby-Sawyer College Assistant Professor The Meaning of Blindness in Early America
1994-95 John Bidwell Rochester Institute of Technology Librarian Printing Supplies in Colonial America
1994-95 Joyce Oldham Appleby University of California, Los Angeles Professor The First Generation of Americans
1993-94 Daniel Williams University of Mississippi Associate Professor The Theft of Authorship
1992-93 Laurie Kahn Watertown, MA Independent Filmmaker A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard (film adaptation)
1992-93 Jeffrey B. Walker Oklahoma State University Associate Professor Collegiate Literary Culture in Eighteenth-Century America
1991-92 Cornelia H. Dayton University of California, Irvine Associate Professor Madness, Dependency, and Gender in Early New England
1990-91 Robert Lawson-Peebles Exeter College Lecturer Transatlantic Cultural Relations, 1745-80