AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship

For nearly fifty years the AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Long-Term Fellowships supported four to twelve month residencies for research at AAS.

NEH Funding Update

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Andrew Jay Chung University of North Texas Assistant Professor Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
2024-25 Ilana Larkin Northwestern University Visiting Assistant Professor Hostile Love: Rage, Race, and Gender in American Children’s Literature, 1850-1900
2024-25 Britt M. Rusert University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor The Afric-American Picture Gallery: Imagining Black Art, circa 1859
2024-25 Michelle LeMaster Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies, Lehigh Univeristy Director "Butchered after the most barbarous manner”: Violence in the Tuscarora War
2023-24 Wyn Kelley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senior Lecturer of Literature Brazi in Early North American Black Print Culture
2023-24 E. Haven Hawley University of Florida University Librarian Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries A Perfect Machine: The Adams Power Press
2023-24 Adam Malka University of Oklahoma Associate Professor of History The Carceral Turn: Crime and Punishment during the Civil War Era
2023-24 Andrew Porwancher University of Oklahoma Professor of Constitutional Studies & Judaic Studies The Great Jewish Lunacy Trial
2023-24 Eric D. Lamore University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor of English “Unstable as Water”: Early Black Atlantic Literature and Textual Fluidity
2023-24 Ben Davidson Saint Michael's College Visiting Scholar in History Freedom's Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation
2022-23 Juliane Braun Auburn University Assistant Professor of English Translating the Pacific: Nature Writing, Print Culture, and the Making of Transoceanic Empire
2022-23 Rebecca Rosen Murray State University Assistant Professor of English Postmortem Life: Anatomy, Autopsy, and Testimony in Early America and the Atlantic World
2022-23 Kabria Baumgartner Northeastern University Associate Professor of History & Africana Studies Revolutionizing the City: Black Youth and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Boston
2022-23 Samantha Seeley University of Richmond Associate Professor of History Bound by Treaty: Emancipation and Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions
2022-23 Sara R. Danger Valparaiso University Associate Professor of English In Their Own Words: Child Writers and the Nineteenth-Century Press
2022-23 Whitney Martinko Villanova University Assistant Professor of History The Corporate Origins of Cultural Property
2021-22 Jesse Olsavsky Duke Kunshan University Assistant Professor of History Fire and Sword Will Affect More Good: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861
2021-22 Jamie Bolker Newberry Library Independent Scholar Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early America
2021-22 Cecilio Cooper Tulane University Visiting Assistant Professor of English South of Heaven: Surface, Territory, and the Black Chthonic
2021-22 Kathryn Walkiewicz University of California, San Diego Assistant Professor of Literature Un-Tied States: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Indigeneity and Territory
2021-22 Nicholas Crawford Washington University in St. Louis Postdoctoral Fellow Sustaining Slavery
2020-21 William Howell Boston University Associate Professor of English Worldly Muses: American Occasional Poetry from the Revolution to Reconstruction
2020-21 Steffi Dippold Kansas State University Associate Professor of English Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America, 1640-1700
2020-21 Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo Professor of History Globes and the Global Imagination in America
2020-21 Nazera Sadiq Wright University of Kentucky Associate Professor of English Early African American Women Writers and their Libraries
2020-21 Jonathan Schroeder University of Warwick Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
2020-21 Rachel E. Walker University of Hartford Assistant Professor of History Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America
2019-20 Joseph Rezek Boston University Associate Professor of English The Racialization of Print
2019-20 John J. Garcia Florida State University Assistant Professor of English Without Order: Booksellers and the Failures of the Early American Book Trade, 1679-1840
2019-20 Craig Thompson Friend North Carolina State University Professor of History Lullaby of Freedom: Lunsford Lane’s America
2019-20 Megan Walsh St. Bonaventure University Professor of English Bad Archives: Extra-Illustration and the History of Information Management in the U.S.
2019-20 Whitney Nell Stewart University of Texas, Dallas Assistant Professor of Historical Studies The Home that Slavery Made: How Plantation Slavery Racialized the American Home
2019-20 Christina Michelon Postdoctoral Fellow Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America
2018-19 Ben Bascom Ball State University Assistant Professor of English Feeling Singular: Masculinity and Desire in the Early Republic, 1786-1822
2018-19 Greg Childs Brandeis University Assistant Professor of History Scenes of Sedition: Racial Politics in Bahia during the Age of Revolution
2018-19 Matthew Suazo Kenyon College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Wetland Americas: Literature, Race, and the Mississippi River Valley in Translation, 1542-1884
2018-19 Elspeth Martini Montclair State University Professor of History Humanitarian Authority and Indigenous Dispossession in the U.S. and British Empires
2018-19 Sharon Murphy Providence College Professor of History and Classics Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South
2018-19 Sonia Hazard Franklin & Marshall College Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America
2017-18 Samantha Harvey Boise State University Professor of English Reading the Book of Nature: Imagination, Observation, and Conservation in Transatlantic Romanticism
2017-18 Reeve Huston Duke University Associate Professor of History Reforging American Democracy
2017-18 Adrian Chastain Weimer Providence College Associate Professor of History Godly Petitions: Puritanism and the Crisis of the Restoration in America
2017-18 Sarah Schuetze University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Assistant Professor of English Calamity Howl: Fear of Illness in Early American Writing
2017-18 Katherine Alysia Grandjean Wellesley College Assistant Professor of History The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution
2017-18 Juliana Chow Saint Louis University Associate Professor of English Lacunae: Vital Language and the Casualties of Natural History
2016-17 Abigail Cooper Brandeis University Assistant Professor of History ‘Lord, Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
2016-17 Tara Bynum Rutgers University Postdoctoral Fellow in English Reading Pleasures
2016-17 Ezra Greenspan Southern Methodist University Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English The Lives and Times of Frederick Douglass and His Family: A Composite Biography
2016-17 Susanna Blumenthal University of Minnesota Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History Humbug: A Legal History
2015-16 Christen Mucher Smith College Assistant Professor Before American History
2015-16 Colleen Glenney Boggs Dartmouth College Professor Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature
2015-16 Amy Hughes Brooklyn College Associate Professor An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-16 Wendy Roberts State University of New York, Albany Assistant Professor Redeeming Verse: The Poetics of Revivalism
2015-16 Christine M. DeLucia Mount Holyoke College Assistant Professor The Itineraries: Seasons of History in the Native Northeast and Ezra Stiles' New England
2014-15 Linford Fisher Brown University Assistant Professor of History The Land of the Unfree: Africans, Indians, and the Varieties of Slavery and Servitude in Colonial New England and the Atlantic World
2014-15 Betsy Erkkilä Northwestern University Professor of English Imagining the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Insurrectionary America
2014-15 Melanie Kiechle Virginia Tech University Assistant Professor of History Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century America
2014-15 Sean Moore University of New Hampshire Associate Professor of History Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade
2014-15 Will T. Slauter University of Paris 8, Saint Denis Lecturer in English and American Studies Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective
2013-14 Maria Bollettino Framingham State University Assistant Professor Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War
2013-14 Thomas Augst New York University Associate Professor A Drunkard's Story: Social reform and mass culture in nineteenth-century America
2013-14 Marina Moskowitz University of Glasgow Associate Professor Seed Money: Improvement and Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century American Garden
2013-14 Jonathan Senchyne University of Wisconsin, Madison Assistant Professor Our Paper Allegories: A Sense for the Material Text in Antebellum American Literature
2012-13 David Anthony Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Associate Professor The Sensational Jew in Antebellum America: Conversion, Race, and the Making of Middle-Class Culture
2012-13 Neil Kamil University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor Artisans of 'Inventive Genius': Atlantic Refugees, Niche Economies, and Portable Devices in the Manufacture of Polite Matter, 1640-1789
2012-13 Jessie Morgan-Owens Nanyang Technological University Assistant Professor Letters of Light: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition
2012-13 Jen Manion Connecticut College Assistant Professor Crossing Gender: Female Masculinity in the 18th & 19th Centuries
2012-13 Daniel R. Mandell Truman State University Professor The Lost Tradition of Equality in America, 1600-1870
2011-12 Joseph M. Adelman Johns Hopkins University Lecturer Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
2011-12 Jack W. Larkin Clark University Affiliate Professor David Claypoole Johnston and the Representation of American Life, 1797-1865
2011-12 Yvette Piggush Florida International University Assistant Professor We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850
2011-12 Carolyn Eastman University of Texas Assistant Professor Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World of Print
2010-11 Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Northeastern University Associate Professor Gender, Sex, and Modernity: Geographies of Reproduction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
2010-11 Sean Harvey Northern Illinois University Visiting Assistant Professor American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty
2010-11 Kyle G. Volk University of Montana Assistant Professor Tyrannies of Moral Majorities: The Minority Rights Revolution in Antebellum America
2010-11 Lisa H. Wilson Connecticut College Professor Cinderella's Family
2009-10 Lloyd P. Pratt Michigan State University Assistant Professor The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860
2009-10 Mary Beth Sievens State University of New York, Fredonia Associate Professor The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865
2009-10 Michael B. Winship University of Texas Professor Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950
2009-10 Emily Pawley University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate 'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860
2009-10 Tanya Sheehan Rutgers University Assistant Professor Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
2008-09 Beth Barton Schweiger University of Arkansas Associate Professor Reading before Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century
2008-09 Sean Kelley Hartwick College Associate Professor Gone to Africa: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora
2008-09 Adam K. Nelson University of Wisconsin, Madison Associate Professor Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University
2008-09 Meredith M. Neuman Clark University Assistant Professor Letter and Spirit
2007-08 Daniel A. Cohen Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America
2007-08 Richard Bell University of Maryland Assistant Professor Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States
2007-08 Peter Leavenworth University of New Hampshire PhD Candidate Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
2007-08 Jeannine M. DeLombard University of Toronto Associate Professor Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War
2006-07 Seth Rockman Brown University Assistant Professor Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy
2006-07 Robert E. Bonner Dartmouth College Visiting Assistant Professor Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty
2006-07 Edward J. Larkin University of Delaware Assistant Professor The Loyalist Origins of United States Culture
2006-07 Nancy Shoemaker University of Connecticut Professor The Whaling History of New England Indians
2005-06 Kenneth Banks University of North Carolina, Asheville Visiting Assistant Professor Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
2005-06 Sara Crosby University of Notre Dame PhD Candidate The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860
2005-06 Catherine Manegold Emory University Professor In an Office Built by Slaves
2005-06 Joshua D. Rothman University of Alabama Assistant Professor Slavery and Speculation in the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America
2005-06 Patricia A. Crain University of Minnesota Associate Professor Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States
2004-05 Christopher Lukasik Boston University Assistant Professor Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Culture, 1780-1850
2004-05 Cornelia H. Dayton University of Connecticut Associate Professor Self and Sanity in Early New England
2004-05 Martha J. McNamara University of Maine Associate Professor New England Visions: Landscape Representation in History and Art, 1790-1850
2004-05 Manisha Sinha University of Massachusetts, Amherst Associate Professor Redefining Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery, 1775-1865
2004-05 Martha Elena Rojas Sweet Briar College Postdoctoral Fellow Diplomatic Letters
2003-04 Eldrid Herrington University College, Dublin Assistant Professor Civil War, Revision, and Self-Representation
2003-04 Michael Jarvis University of Rochester Assistant Professor 'In the eye of All Trade': Bermuda and the Atlantic World, 1612-1815
2002-03 Nick Yablon University of Chicago PhD Candidate American Antiquities: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Ruin in Nineteenth-Century America
2002-03 Eliza Richards Boston University Assistant Professor Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America
2001-02 John M. Murrin Princeton University Professor Crisis and Upheaval in the English Atlantic World, 1673-1692
2001-02 Altina L. Waller University of Connecticut Professor Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America
2001-02 Altina L. Waller University of Connecticut Professor Margaret Eaton, Sexuality and Empowerment in Jacksonian America
2001-02 Benjamin Reiss Tulane University Assistant Professor Antebellum Literary Culture and the Rise of the Asylum
2000-01 Catherine A. Corman Harvard University Assistant Professor Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1820-1851
2000-01 Vincent DiGirolamo Colgate University Assistant Professor Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys
2000-01 Karen Woods Weierman Worcester State University Assistant Professor One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
1999-00 Marilyn Baseler University of Texas, Austin Assistant Professor Strangers within our gates': America's Immigrants, 1776-1820
1999-00 A. Woodrow Holton Bloomsburg University Assistant Professor Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
1998-99 Barry Levy University of Massachusetts, Amherst Associate Professor The Ordeal of Early American Equality: Orphans, Poor Children, and the Massachusetts Labor Regime, 1630-1820
1998-99 Brian Roberts California State University, Sacramento Assistant Professor Psalms, Reels and Glees: Popular Music and American Identity from the Colonial Era through the Civil War
1998-99 Jean M. O'Brien University of Minnesota Associate Professor Changing Identities: Native American Peoples in Early New England
1997-98 Fredrika J. Teute Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Editor of Publications Life on the Margins: Margaret Bayard Smith's Vision of Early Washington Society
1997-98 Lesley Ginsberg Stanford University Recent PhD The Romance of Dependency: Childhood and the Ideology of Love in American Literature, 1825-1870
1996-97 Philip D. Morgan Florida State University Professor The World of an Anglo-Jamaican Planter in the Eighteenth Century
1996-97 Paula Bennett University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale Associate Professor Dissenting Angels: The Emergence of Modern Subjectivity in American Women's Poetry, 1850-00
1996-97 Barbara Lacey Saint Joseph College Associate Professor Religious Imagery Transformed: The Eighteenth-Century American Illustrated Imprint
1996-97 John Nerone Institute of Communications Research, IL Associate Professor US Newspapers from the Revolution to the Industrial Revolution
1995-96 Barry F. O'Connell Amherst College Professor Surviving Identites: Native American Writers and Their People's Survival, 1780-1840
1995-96 Neal Salisbury Smith College Professor From Frontier to Society: Natives, Settlers and the Transformation of Southern New Engand
1994-95 Carol F. Karlsen University of Michigan Associate Professor Relations of Power, the Power of Relations: Iroquois Communities in Western New York, 1750-00
1994-95 Wayne S. Franklin Northeastern University Davis Distinguished Professor Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
1994-95 Dale Cockrell College of William and Mary David N. and Margaret C. Bottoms Pofessor Demons of Disorder: The Early Blackface Minstrel and His World
1993-94 Wilson H. Kimnach Clark University Affiliate Professor Literature of the Sermon in Eighteenth-Century America
1993-94 Michael B. Winship University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor The American Book in the Industrial Era
1993-94 Bruce G. Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor The Search for Security in Nineteenth-Century America
1992-93 Richard D. Brown University of Connecticut Professor The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in Early America,1650-1865
1992-93 Kenneth J. Moynihan Assumption College Professor A History of Worcester
1992-93 Ronald J. Zboray University of Texas, Arlington Associate Professor of History Literary Enterprise in Antebellum America: Publishers, Novelists, and the Reading Public
1992-93 Nym Cooke Eagle Hill School Teacher Sacred Music in New England, 1720-1780: From Ritual Towards Art
1991-92 Billy G. Smith Montana State University Professor Fugitives from Slavery in the Eighteenth Century Mid Atlantic Region
1991-92 Stephen W. Nissenbaum University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
1991-92 Ann Withington Michigan State University Assistant Professor Elite and Popular Culture in the Confederation and Early National Period
1990-91 William J. Gilmore-Lehne Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Associate Professor The State of Knowledge on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
1990-91 Barbara Meldrum University of Iowa Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century American Progress
1990-91 Norma Basch Rutgers University Associate Professor Framing American Divorce: Rules, Realities, and Mythologies, 1770-1870
1989-90 Lee E. Heller Mercer College Assistant Professor The Novel as Popular Literature: American Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries
1989-90 William W. Freehling Johns Hopkins University Professor The Road to Disunion, Vol 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-61
1989-90 Alan S. Taylor Boston University Assistant Professor William Cooper's Town
1989-90 Mark R. Valeri Lewis and Clark College Assistant Professor The Eighteenth-Century Clergy and Economics in New England
1988-89 Stephen A. Marini Wellesley College Professor Religion in the American Revolution
1988-89 Harvey J. Graff University of Texas, San Antonio Professor Conflicting Paths: The Transformations of Growing Up, 1750-20
1988-89 Stephen A. Marini Wellesley College Professor Migrants and Itinerants, Schools and Psalmody: Neglected Networks of Religious Culture in Revolutionary America
1987-88 Thomas Purvis Auburn University at Montgomery Assistant Professor A Decade of Conflict:Anglo-American Mobilization in the Era of the Seven Years' War, 1754-1764
1987-88 Patricia C. Cohen University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Professor Safety and Danger: Women in Public
1987-88 Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Associate Professor Where's Mine?: Debt in Post-Revolutionary Massachusetts
1986-87 Sacvan Bercovitch Harvard University Professor The Literary Market in 19th-Century America
1986-87 Deborah Van Broekhoven Brown University Associate Professor Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network
1986-87 Michael D. Warner Northwestern University Assistant Professor The Letters of the Republic
1985-86 Paul Johnson Princeton University Guest Lecturer From Yeoman to Factory Hand: Studies in Early Industrial Society
1985-86 John Seelye University of Florida Graduate Research Professor The River in the Early American Republic
1984-85 James A. Henretta Boston University Professor Law and the Creation of the Liberal State in America, 1770-1870
1984-85 Linck Johnson Colgate University Associate Professor Walden in Its Time
1984-85 Peter S. Onuf Worcester Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor The Northwest Ordinance
1983-84 James Hoopes Babson College Professor Consciousness in New England
1983-84 Melanie Sovine MacNeil Hospital Clinical Anthropologist The Primitive Baptists and the Anti-Mason Party
1983-84 Dale Cockrell Middlebury College Assistant Professor The Journals of the Hutchinson Family
1982-83 Margaret Neussendorfer Billias University of Texas, Permian Basin Associate Professor Bibliography of the Works of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
1982-83 David S. Reynolds Northwestern University Assistant Professor Beneath the American Renaissance
1982-83 Alden T. Vaughan Columbia University Professor Indians and Europeans in British North America
1981-82 Donald M. Scott North Carolina State University Associate Professor Public Lectures and the Formation of American Culture, 1830-1870
1981-82 David D. Hall Boston University Professor History of Popular Culture in Colonial New England
1981-82 Marc Shell State University of New York, Buffalo Associate Professor Money and Symbolism in America: Case Studies
1980-81 John King University of Michigan Assistant Professor Puritan Psychomachy: Themes of Piety and Mental Pathology in Early America
1979-80 Christine L. Heyrman University of California, Irvine Assistant Professor The Culture of Charity: Merchants, Ministers, and the Social Order of New England,1680-1740
1979-80 Arthur Francis Schrader Performer and Singing History Scholar The Isaiah Thomas Ballad Collection
1978-79 Gloria L. Main Independent Researcher The Massachusetts Farmer and his Family
1978-79 James Beard Clark University Professor James Fenimore Cooper: A Critical Biography
1978-79 Anthony G. Roeber Princeton University Instructor Law, Ideology and Religion among German Americans in Revolutionary America, 1729-1814
1977-78 Ross W. Beales Jr. College of the Holy Cross Assistant Professor Concepts of Childhood and Youth of NewEngland
1977-78 Richard D. Brown University of Connecticut Professor Communications Networks in Pre-Industrial America
1976-77 Mason I. Lowance Jr. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Symbolism in American Writings from the Puritans to the Civil War
1976-77 Ronald P. Formisano Clark University Associate Professor Massachusetts Political Culture, 1790-1840
1976-77 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor Prescribed and Actual Gender Roles in the American Family, 1760-1895