Past Fellows

2010-2011 Boston Athenæum Research Fellowship Recipients

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: Michaelene Cox, professor, Illinois State University, “John Lawson Stoddard” 

Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship: Vanessa Steinroetter, Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Representations of Readers and Scenes of Reading in American Literature of the Civil War”

The Mudge Teacher Fellowships: Jan Voogd, librarian, Provincetown Public Library, “Provincetown Abolition Society, the Abolitionist Movement, and the Methodist Episcopal Church”

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Laura Adderley, professor, Tulane University, “The Routine ‘Horrors’ of Slave Ship Rape: Interpreting Sexual Violence in the Atlantic Slave Trade”

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History: Matthew Fisk, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Art Enterprise and Diplomacy: John Trumbull, A Federalist Painter in Europe, 1780-1815

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship: Mary Kupiec Cayton, professor, Miami University, “’A Divine and Supernatural Light’: Religious Emotion and the Rise of Evangelical Culture in America, 1740-1840”

 The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship (Jointly with the Massachusetts Historical Society): Peter Wirzbicki, Ph.D. candidate, New York University, “Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists: Creating the Radical Intellectual Tradition in Antebellum Boston”

 The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: Hayley Glaholt, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “’Reversing the Chivalry of Christ’: Quaker Women Challenge the ‘Species Line’ of Pacifist Ethics”

 

2009-2010

Mary Catherine Mooney: Wei Kang Tchou, Ph.D student, University of Cambridge, “Robert Morrison’s Chinese English Dictionary (1815-23)

Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship:  Daniel Flook, Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida,“Seeking Support from the People”

The Mudge Teacher Fellowships: 

•  Tia Esposito, Director of Library, Boston College High School, “Nativism in Boston”
•  Craig J. Perrier, history teacher, Billerica Memorial High School, “American Paradox: War, Dissent and Nationalism at the Hartford Convention”

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Brooke Barbier, instructor, Stonehill College, “Daughters of Liberty: Young Women’s Culture in Early National Boston”

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History:    Jessica Parr, Ph.D. candidate, University of New Hampshire, “On the Margins of Empire: The Spectre of Marronage and the Making of Intellectual Borderlands in  the Age Of Revolution.”

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship:             None awarded this year.

The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship (Jointly with MHS):           Kathryn Shively Meier, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, “’Under the Surge of the Blue’: Environmental Effects on Civil War Solder Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862”           

The New England Regional Fellowship:

• Sean Harvey, Ph.D. candidate, College of William and Mary, “American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty.”
•  Whitney Martinko, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860
•  Amber Moulton-Wiseman, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Marriage Extraordinary: Interracial Marriage and the Politics of Family in Antebellum Massachusetts”
•  John Wong, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Global Positioning: China       Trade and the Hong Merchants of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries”

2008-2009

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• Damien Boutillon, Ph.D. candidate at Durham University (U.K.), for conducting research in the library of Gypsy (Roma) scholar Francis Hindes Groome,
• Philip Edward Phillips (Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University), for a book project, Poe and Boston
• Tom F. Wright, Ph.D. candidate at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (dissertation, “The Travel Lecture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States”)

Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship: Crystal Feimster, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research project: “Sexual Warfare: Rape during the American Civil War”).

The Mudge Teacher Fellowships: Steven Berbeco, a teacher at Charlestown High School, who plans to develop and publish a social studies curriculum unit on Gypsy (Roma) language and culture.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Andrew M. Wehrman, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University, for his dissertation research “Sore Spots: Disease, Empire and Revolution in Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts.”

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History: Professor Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma, “The Book in Washington’s Life.”

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship: H. Paul Thompson, Jr., (Assistant Professor, North Greenville University), “The Swan Song of Antebellum Reform: Temperance Reform in Post-Emancipation Atlanta, 1865-1887.”

The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins and Consequences (Jointly with the Massachusetts Historical Society): Megan Nelson, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton, for her project Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War.

The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium:

• James Revell Carr (Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) who is continuing his research for a book titled Hawaiian Music and Dance in New England, 1802-1862
• Daniel W. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, for his project “Emancipation and the Law: Litigating Human Property in the Civil War and Reconstruction,” 
• Christine N. Reiser, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Brown University (dissertation: “Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping in 18 th and 19 th Century Native Southern New England”).

2007-2008

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: 

• Edward E. Andrews, Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire (dissertation, “Prodigal Sons:  Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640-1790”).
• Patricia Roeser, Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University (dissertation, “Towards Democratization:  Boston’s Cultural Landscapes, 1820-2000”).
• Aaron Winter, Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Irvine (dissertation, “The Laughing Dove:  Satire in 19^th Century U.S. Anti-War Rhetoric”).

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  Clay M. Smith, M.F.A. candidate at the University of Chicago, for a performance project recreating and re-evaluating the visual and cultural texture of the lives of Confederates imprisoned in the North.

Boston Athenæum/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies joint fellowship:  Dr. Jeremy Gregory of the University of Manchester (England) for his book project, “Refashioning Puritan New England:  The Church of England and Religious Identity in Colonial North America, ca. 1680-ca. 1780.”

Mudge Teacher Fellowship:  Barbara E. Ryan, English teacher at Fontbonne Academy in Milton, MA, for developing a curriculum around Lord Byron and British Romantic Literature.

American Congregational Association/Boston Athenæum joint fellowship:  Professor William Van Arragon (King’s College, Edmonton, Alberta), for revising his dissertation, “Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory,” for publication.

New England Regional Consortium Fellowship:

• Rachel Tamar Van, Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University (dissertation, “Great Expectations:  Free Trade Family Values, and the Culture of Early American Capitalism, 1782-1891”).
• Kanisorn (Kid Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (dissertation, New England’s Elite:  Young Northerners in the Civil War Era”).

2006-2007

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: 

• Gabriel Abend (Northwestern University).
• Ousmane Power-Greene (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
• Billy Sothern (Capital Appeals Project, New Orleans).

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  James K. Hogue (University of North Carolina, Charlotte).

Washington College Fellowship:  Christine LaHue (Ohio State University).

Boston Athenæum/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies joint fellowship:  Thomas E. Conroy (Stonehill College).

Mudge Teacher Fellowship:  Dr. Tammarrah A. Lee (Trotter Elementary School).

New England Regional Consortium Fellowships:

• Elise M. Ciregna (University of Delaware).
• Margaret A. Lowe (Bridgewater State College).
• Eric C. Stoykovich (University of Virginia).
• Lisa M. Tetrault (Carnegie Mellon University).

2005-2006

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: 

• Jeffrey A. Fortin (University of New Hampshire).
• Katherine Hijar (Johns Hopkins University).
• Daniel C. Wewers (Harvard University).

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  Renée L. Bergland (Simmons College).

Boston Athenæum/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies joint fellowship:  Caroline Breashears (St. Lawrence University).

Washington College Fellowship:  John A. Ruddiman (Yale University).

New England Regional Consortium Fellowship:

• Glenn Grasso (University of New Hampshire).
• Kimberley A. Hamlin (University of Texas, Austin).
• Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey (Boston University).
• Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow).
• Wendy Warren (Yale University).

2004-2005

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• Thomas Augst (Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota), to work on a book project , “The Sobriety Test:  Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship.”
• Heather S. Nathans (Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Maryland), to support her research for “Lifting the Veil of Black:  Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage, 1787-1861.”

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  Coleman Hutchinson (Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University), to conduct research for his dissertation, “Region, Revision, and the American Civil War Text.”

Boston Athenæum/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies joint fellowship:  Chernoh M. Sesay, Jr. (Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University), to work on his dissertation, “’all things are changeable’:  The World of Prince and Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1760-1820.”

New England Regional Fellowship:

• Beverley K. Brandt (Professor, School of Design, College of Architecture and Design, Arizona State).  “The Craftsman and the Critic:  Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Turn-of-the-Century Boston.”
• Phyllis B. Cole (Professor of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, Penn State Delaware County).  “Literary Feminism in Nineteenth-Century New England.
• Heather Miyano Kopelson (Research Associate, Department of History, University of Vermont, and Ph.D. candidate, University of Iowa).  “Performing Faith:  Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720.”
• Amanda Moniz (Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan).  “’Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’:  Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815.”

2003-2004

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• John Donoghue (Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and teacher at Mt. Lebanon High School), for his dissertation “’the Very State of Action, the Market Place of the World’:  Republicanism in the Atlantic World of Militant Protestantism, 1630-1690.”
• Eric Plaag (Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina), to conduct research on “Travel, Time, and Sensory Experience, and Sectional Difference in the Antebellum South.”

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Boston Athenæum joint fellowship:  Martha Elena Rojas (Sweet Brian College) for revising for publication her Stanford dissertation “Diplomatic Letters:  The Conduct and Culture of U.S. Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic.”

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  Daniel Hamilton, for revising for publication his Harvard dissertation “The Limits of Sovereignty:  Legislative Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy.

2002-2003

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• Glenn MacLeod (Professor, University of Connecticut, Waterbury), “Authenticity in American Art and Literature:  From Casts and Copies to the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
• Michael J. Rawson (Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Nature and the City:  Class, Power, and the Creation of Metropolitan Boston, 1820-1920.”
• William Van Arragon (Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University), “Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1778-1892.”
• Diana Irene Williams (Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University) “’They Call it a Marriage’:  Interracial Families in Post –Emancipation Louisiana.

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  Patrick Brennan (Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri at Columbia), “Fevers and Fists:  Forging and Irish Legacy in New Orleans, 1853-1866.”

New England Regional Fellowship:

• Sally E. Hadden (Assistant Professor, Florida State University), “Legal Cultures in an Early American City:  Boston.”
• Karen L. Jessup (Ph.D. candidate, The Centre for Conservation Studies, DeMountfort University, U.K.), “Searching for the Past:  The New England Domestic Landscape of 1876 to 1917, and the Influence of the British Idyll.”
• Stephen A. Mihm (Ph.D. candidate, New York University), “Making Money:  Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789-1877.”
• David Montejano (Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley), “A Red Badge of Cotton?  On the Circulation of Southern Cotton During the American Civil War.

2001-2002

No fellowships offered.

2000-2001

No fellowships offered.

1999-2000

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• Gretchen A. Adams (Doctoral candidate, University of New Hampshire), “The Specter of Salem in American Culture, 1692-1999.”
• Kate Clifford (University of New Hampshire), to produce a scholarly biography of Harriet Tubman.
• Julie Levin (Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas, Austin), to analyze the work of artist Allan Rohan Crite.
• Andrea McCarthy and Carol Siriani (Team-teachers, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School), to develop an American literature and social studies curriculum for the period 1870 to 1920.

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship:  JoAnne Thomas (Doctoral candidate, Western Michigan University), to research popular music of the Civil War era.

1997-1998

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship:

• Mary T. Adams (Third-Grade Teacher, the Blackstone School, Boston) to prepare a curriculum unit on Boston’s colonial history.
• Elizabeth Call (Librarian, Mountain West College, Salt Lake City), to study the life and work of Boston artist and designer Sarah Wyman Whitman.
• Irina Khrouleva (Post-doctoral student, Moscow State University, Russia), to revise for publication her dissertation on New England radical Puritanism.
• Eileen Rebmen (American Studies teacher, Bullis School, Potomac, Maryland) to research the New England slave trade.

1996-1997

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowships:

• Laura Davidson (book artist) to develop an original work based on the Athenæum copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
• Wilfred E. Holton (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University), to investigate aspects of Boston’s cultural life in 1900 for a book project.
• Anthony Mann (doctoral candidate in America Studies, Keele University, England) whose dissertation explores the influence of Great on Britain on the Boston “aristocracy” during the nineteenth century.
• John Saillant (visiting Assistant Professor of History, M.I.T.), to write a history of the migration of African American sot Sierra Leone and Liberia.
• Alexander Djordjadze (doctoral candidate, Moscow State University, Russia), to research the evangelical church in the socio-political structure of the Confederacy.