Legacy Fellowship

The Legacy Fellowship, also for research on any topic supported by the collections, is funded by the gifts of former fellows and research associates. The tradition of former fellows directing their annual gifts to support a fellowship began in 1997. In that year a special effort was undertaken to solicit current-use funds from former holders of fellowships at AAS. The aim was to help a young scholar by supporting a short-term fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to an individual engaged in scholarly research and writing - - including doctoral dissertations - - in any field of American history and culture through 1900.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2013-14 Adam Thomas University of California, Irvine PhD Candidate Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World
2012-13 Alpen Razi University of Toronto PhD Candidate Colored Citizens of the World
2011-12 Sari Altschuler CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse
2010-11 Matthew Bahar University of Oklahoma PhD Candidate People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World
2009-10 Spencer Keralis New York University PhD Candidate Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America
2008-09 Allison Malcom University of Illinois, Chicago PhD Candidate "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870."
2007-08 James Kabala Brown University PhD Candidate A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844
2006-07 William Wagner University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865
2005-06 Sara Babcox First University of Michigan PhD Candidate The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America
2004-05 Robb Haberman University of Connecticut PhD Candidate "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America"