2007-2008 Program in Early American Economy & Society Research Fellows

Post-doctoral Fellows

Dr. Jonathan Chu, Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston, “Where’s Mine? The Legal and Economic Impact of the American Revolution.”

Dr. Michelle Craig McDonald, Department of Atlantic History, Stockton College, “Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean, and the Early American Economy, 1765-1825.”

Dissertation Fellow

Jeffrey Kaja, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800.”

Short-Term Fellows

Joanna Cohen, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania, “Millions of Luxurious Citizens.” Consumption and Citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876.”

Joe Conway, Ph.D. Candidate in English & American Literature/American Culture Studies, Washington University at St. Louis, “The Hard Value of U.S. Fiction in an Age of Domestic Panic: 1837-1857.”

Dr. Max Edling, Department of History, Uppsala University. “Financing the Mexican War.”

Michelle Mormul, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Delaware, “Philadelphia’s Linen Merchants, 1765 to 1815.”

Brian Phillips Murphy, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Virginia, “The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783-1850.”