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The American Antiquarian Society offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months.
All of the fellowships are designed to enable academic and independent scholars and advanced graduate students to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Discussing this work with staff and other readers is a hallmark of an AAS fellowship.
- Long-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
Hench application deadline: October 15, 2022
AAS-NEH application deadline: January 15, 2022
- Short-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
Application deadline: January 15, 2022
- Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers
Application deadline: October 5, 2022
Please contact Nan Wolverton at nwolverton@mwa.org or 508-471-2119 with questions.
Current and Previous Fellows
- Fellows' Directory, 1972-present
A complete directory of all long-term fellows, short-term fellows, artist fellows, and research associates in residence at AAS since the program's inception in 1972. Fellows may be sorted by fellows' last name, fellowship cycle, and fellowship awarded.
AAS Welcomes Ann Daly, the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow for 2021–22
Ann Daly will spend the coming year at AAS revising her dissertation into a book about the origins of money. In traditional interpretations, currency emerged as a replacement for barter, and then followed a linear progression from coin to paper money to the contemporary world of credit cards and fiat currency. Daly takes a different perspective. In her project, titled “Minting America: The Politics, Technology, and Culture of Money in the Early United States,” she examines how the state used gold and silver coins to power American capitalism. Daly focuses on the material processes of mining and minting: The innovations of skilled workers, from expert enslaved women working Georgia’s goldfields to chemists who brought the latest science to the U.S. Mint, became tools of governance as the federal state deployed the design, production, and distribution of government-issued coin to regulate financial markets.
Daly, who recently accepted an appointment as assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, received a Ph.D. from Brown University where she received the History Department’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Recent Scholarship Based on Research at AAS
Fellows' publications and awards are included in the list of recent scholarship based on research at AAS.
More About the Program
An introduction to the fellowship program (2:44)
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
