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.

Displaying 1 - 45 of 45

Name Date Fellowship Project
Chip Badley
PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018-19 Botein Aesthetic Sociality and Nineteenth-Century America
Joshua Bartlett
PhD Candidate in English, State University of New York, Albany
2018-19 Last The Many Lives of the Charter Oak
Ben Bascom
Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University
2018-19 AAS-NEH Feeling Singular: Masculinity and Desire in the Early Republic, 1786-1822
Alex Beringer
Assistant Professor of English, University of Montevallo
2018-19 Last Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century American Comic Strip
Jamie Bolker
PhD Candidate in English, Fordham University
2018-19 Peterson Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early American Literature and Culture
Lance Boos
PhD Candidate in History, Stony Brook University
2018-19 Last The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century
Courtney Buchkoski
PhD Candidate in English, University of Oklahoma
2018-19 Legacy Benevolent Colonization: Emigration Aid and the American West, 1820-1880
Camden Burd
PhD Candidate in History, University of Rochester
2018-19 Peterson The Ornament of Empire: Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape
Greg Childs
Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University
2018-19 AAS-NEH Scenes of Sedition: Racial Politics in Bahia during the Age of Revolution
Ann Daly
PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
2018-19 Lapides Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828-1846
Gordon Fraser
Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University
2018-19 Reese The Hawaiian Creation Chant and the Firm of Lee & Shepard
Lauren Freese
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota
2018-19 Last A Taste for Images: Depictions of Food and Eating in the American Popular Press
Mark Gallagher
PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
2018-19 Packer 'In the Optative Mood’: Unitarian Optimism and the Transcendental Affects of Peabody, Parker, Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau
Caroline Gillaspie
PhD Candidate in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
2018-19 Last Fueling America: Visual Representations of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Coffee Consumption
Sarah Gillespie
PhD Candidate in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
2018-19 Last 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850
Julia Grummitt
PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
2018-19 Last The Great National Work: Visualizing Territory and Race in Nineteenth-Century North America
Nikki Hessell
Associate Professor of English, Victoria University of Wellington
2018-19 Peterson Sensitive Negotiations: Romantic Literature and Indigenous Diplomacy, 1820-1950
Lucien Holness
PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
2018-19 Last Between North and South, East and West: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Peter Jaros
Associate Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College
2018-19 Peterson Incorporate Things: A Literary Genealogy of Corporate Personhood in Antebellum America
Sandro Jung
Fellow, Herzog August Library
2018-19 Last A Transnational History of American Book Illustration
Adam Laats
Professor, State University of New York, Binghamton
2018-19 Alstott Morgan Toe the Line: Joseph Lancaster and the Delusion of Early School Reform
Joseph Larnerd
PhD Candidate in Art and Art History, Stanford University
2018-19 Jaffee The Makings of Cut Glass in America, 1876-1916
Emilia Le Seven
PhD Candidate in English-Speaking Cultures, Université Paris Diderot
2018-19 d'Héricourt Cooper’s Sea Romances and the American Grand National Narrative
Trent MacNamara
Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University
2018-19 Peterson Big Sky: Popular Ideas about the Heavens in America
Elspeth Martini
Professor of History, Montclair State University
2018-19 AAS-NEH Humanitarian Authority and Indigenous Dispossession in the U.S. and British Empires
Kate McIntyre
PhD Candidate in English, Columbia University
2018-19 Peterson Fugitive Circulations: The Political Ecology of Poetry in Early African-American Newspapers
Don James McLaughlin
Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa
2018-19 Hench Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination in American Literature
Sharon Murphy
Professor of History and Classics, Providence College
2018-19 AAS-NEH Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South
Emma Newcombe
PhD Candidate in American & New England Studies, Boston University
2018-19 Last A Place Rendered Interesting': Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of Middle-Class Tourism
Camille Owens
PhD Candidate in African American Studies, Yale University
2018-19 Schiller Blackness and the Human Child: Race, Prodigy, and the Logic of American Childhood
Rachael Pasierowska
PhD Candidate in History, Rice University
2018-19 Peterson Beasts, Birds, and Bondsmen: Animal and Slave Interactions in Atlantic World Slavery
Erika Pazian
PhD Candidate in History, CUNY Graduate Center
2018-19 AHPCS Visual Culture and National Identity during the U.S.-Mexican War
Seth Perry
Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University
2018-19 Reese Lorenzo Dow and the Origins of American Religious Celebrity
Tanya Pohrt
Project Curator, Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2018-19 Drawn to Art Mary Way and Elizabeth Way Champlain: Miniaturists of the Early Republic
Tatania Prorokova
Adjunct Instructor in American Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2018-19 Ebeling Climate Change, the Environment, and the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.
Madeline Kearin Ryan
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Brown University
2018-19 Peterson The Sensory Ecology of the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane
Neal Salisbury
Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences, Smith College
2018-19 Mellon Distinguished Scholar Lives on the Line: Colonial Histories in Early New England
Asiel Sepulveda
PhD Candidate in Art History, Southern Methodist University
2018-19 Last City Impressions: Lithography and Urban Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Dorin Smith
PhD Candidate in English, Brown University
2018-19 Peterson Brain Fever
Matthew Suazo
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Kenyon College
2018-19 AAS-NEH Wetland Americas: Literature, Race, and the Mississippi River Valley in Translation, 1542-1884
Justin Tackett
PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University
2018-19 Peterson Investigating the Poetics of American Stethoscopy and Telegraphy
Melissa Trafton
Adjunct Professor of Art History, University of New Hampshire
2018-19 Last Animals in the Age of Darwin
Rachel E. Walker
PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
2018-19 Last A Beautiful Mind: Faces, Beauty, and the Brain in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1780-1870
Jordan Wingate
PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
2018-19 Tracy The Periodical Origins of the American Self
Magdalena Zapedowska
PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2018-19 Botein Black Dissent and Black Freedom: Revolution, Emigration, Reform, 1850-1870