2009-2010 Program in Early American Economy & Society Research Fellows

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Martin Bruckner, Department of English, University of Delaware, “The Social Life of Maps in North America, 1750-1850.”

Dissertation Fellows

Ariel Ron, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, “Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Origins of Republican Economic Policy.”

Elena Schneider, Department of History, Princeton University, “The Limits of Loyalty:  War, Trade, and British Occupation in Eighteenth-Century Havana.”

Short-term Fellows

Ian Beamish, History Department, Johns Hopkins University, “Agricultural Knowledge, Daily Work, and Slavery in the Early Republic.”

D’Maris Coffman, Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK, “Debating the Excise Tax in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania.”

Thierry Rigogne, History Department, Fordham University, “The Creation of the Café: The Birth of Coffee Culture and the Rise of the French Café to 1800.”

Teagan Schweitzer, Anthropology Department, University of Pennsylvania, “Philadelphia Foodways, 1750-1850:  The Historical Archaeology of Cuisine.”

Jeffrey Sklansky, History Department, Oregon State University, “The Biddles and the Politics of Money and Banking in the Early 1800s.”