Program in Early American Economy & Society: Past Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Christopher Baldwin, independent scholar, Toronto, Ontario
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–63

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Anders Bright, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Luck’s Republic: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early America

Carolyn Zola, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University
Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth Century America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Loryn Clauson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toledo
Hold My Purse Strings: Marriage, Gender and Capitalism in Antebellum America

Eva Landsberg, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Assistant Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Public History, Department of History, Rutgers University
Surviving the New Nation: A Material History of Poverty in the United States

Angel-Luke O’Donnell, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Quantitative Reasoning Education, Department of Liberal Arts, Kings College London
The History of Mortgages: The State, Industrial Capital, and Industrialisation in Pennsylvania, 1690–1816

Rachel Silberstein, independent scholar
“To the Greatest Extent the China Market can bear”: A Connective History of British Woolens in Qing China

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Camille Kaszubowski, independent scholar, Newark, Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Christopher Baldwin, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–1763

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Michael Gagnon, Professor, Department of History, Georgia Gwinnett College
Augustin Smith Clayton and the House Select Committee Investigating the US Bank in 1832

Sophie Hess, PhD Candidate, American History, University of Maryland
Hollow Ground: Industry, Ecology, and Climate Change in the Floodplains of Early Maryland

James Craufurd Robertson, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona
The Western Design and the Establishment of English Jamaica, 1654–1662

Francis Russo, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: 1663–1860

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Yazoo’s Settlement: Finance, Law, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1820

Hannah Knox Tucker, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic

Joseph Wallace, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University (fellowship deferred due to COVID–19 pandemic)
“The Architects of their Fortunes”: Financial Revolutions on Baltimore’s Market Street, 1760s–1840s

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Chad Holmes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, West Virginia University
Sheriffs, Capitalism, and Civil Society in the Early Republic

Cody Nager, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate Center, CUNY
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815

Short-Term awards paused for 2021–2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Kristen Beales, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Spirited Exchanges: The Religion of the Marketplace in Early America

Ann Daly, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Brown University
Minting America: Money, Value, and the Federal State, 1784–1858

Carrie Glenn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Niagara University
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and Marie Rose Poumaroux: Commerce, Vulnerability, and the U.S. in the French Atlantic, 1780–1834

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Emily Casey, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
Hydrographic Vision: Imagining the Sea and British America, 1750–1800

Sean Griffin, independent scholar
The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Radicalism and Antislavery, 1790–1860

Grant Kleiser, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750–1781

Teanu Reid, PhD Candidate, Department of History and African American Studies, Yale University
Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World

Matteo Rossi, PhD Candidate, Global History of Empires, Università degli Studi di Torino
National Economy and Empire: Henry Carey and the Building of the Post-Colonial State

Agnès Trouillet, Associate Professor, Department of History, Paris VII Diderot
Penn’s Settlement Design—Spatial Units, Surveying, and Political Power in Colonial Pennsylvania

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Julien Mauduit, Department of History, McMaster University
Money in North American Thought: The Democracy-Capitalism Relation (1770s–1840s)

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Kyle Repella, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Greater Delaware Valley, 1620–1760

Nicole Schroeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Incurable Defects: Medical Practice, Subsidized Welfare, and the Disabled Body in Philadelphia, 1760–1840

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Patrick T. Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Slavery and Its Shadow, Race, Labor, and Environment in the Transformation of the Southern Caribbean, 1776–1876

Lance Boos, PhD Candidate in History, Stony Brook University
Print and Performance: The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century

Andy Cabot, PhD Candidate in Anglophone Studies, Paris Diderot University
Slavery, Empires and Diplomacy: Britain, France and the United States, c.1794–c.1825

Whitney Martinko, Department of History, Villanova University
The Corporate Origins of Cultural Property in the Early United States

Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States

Stephen Shapiro, Department of English, University of Warwick
Redefining Liberalism: Early National Transformations of Political Economy, Imperial Geography, and the Evangelical Front

Simon Sun, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University
Thomas Jefferson’s Hau Kiou Choaan: China and Early America (1497–1784)

Evelyn Strope, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
‘Voting’ Consumers and Cultures of Consumer Activism, 1775–1815

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Brett Goodin, Smithsonian Institution
Conflict, Commerce and Self-Discovery: American Sailors and the Asia-Pacific, 1784–1914

Niccolo Valmori, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Information, Risks and Opportunities: The Philadelphia Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution, 1783–1815

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Sean Gallagher, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
“Working the Master’s Revolution”: Enslaved Life and Labor in the Revolutionary South

Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Ann Daly, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828–1846

Bruce Spadaccini, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To the best of your knowledge and ability”: North American Ship Captains, Commerce, and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763–1812

Hannah Knox Tucker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607–1774

Laurie Wood, Department of History, Florida State University
Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

John Garcia, Division of Humanities, Boston University
The Early American Bookseller: A Network History

Anne Verplanck, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
The Business of Art: Transforming the Graphic Arts in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Carrie Glenn, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and John Joseph Borie: Commerce, Vulnerability, and U.S. Connections with the French Atlantic, 1780–1820

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Marcel Deperne, PhD Candidate in History, University of La Rochelle
Atlantic Networks in the Ohio River Valley: French Merchants from Pittsburgh (PA) to Henderson (KY) 1789–1848

Alexandra Garrett, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Forgotten Female Roots of America’s Economic Power: Feme Sole Entrepreneurs of the Early Republic, 1774–1828

Sean Harvey, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Albert Gallatin, the Early Republic, and the Atlantic World

Kathleen Hilliard, Department of History, Iowa State University
Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860–1867

Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Robert Richard, Department of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Panic and Power: The First Great Depression in North Carolina, 1815–1833

Amy Watson, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Patriot Empire: The Rise of Imperial Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1716–1748

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Michael Blaakman, Department of History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776–1803

Mara Caden, Department of History, Yale University
Mint Conditions: The Politics and Geography of Money in Britain and its Empire, 1650–1750

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Garment Commerce in Revolutionary-Era New Orleans

Amy Sopcak-Joseph, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Converting Rags into Gold: “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” Female Consumers, and the Business of Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Cadiz, Spain
Maritime Traffic between Philadelphia and Cadiz (Spain) and the U.S. Merchants in Cádiz during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Dan Du, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
This World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784–1860

Lindsay Keiter, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750–1860

Alicia Maggard, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Steamboats on the Ohio River in the Nineteenth Century

Ernesto Mercado-Montero, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Saltwater Empire: The Caribs and the Politics of Smuggling, Insurgency, and the Slave Trade in the Circum-Caribbean, 1763–1833

Scott Miller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
A Merchant’s Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760–1807

Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
The Long Life of Yazoo: Land Speculation, Finance, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1840

Eric Sears, PhD Candidate in History, St. Louis University
The Political Economy of Crisis, 1848–1860: Money and Banking in the Atlantic Origins of America’s Panicked Decade

Liat Spiro, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Drawing Capital: Depiction, Machine Tools, and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge, 1824–1914

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Sara T. Damiano, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Gendering the Work of Debt Collection: Women, Law, and the Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790

Lindsay Regele, Department of History, Miami University
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industrialization

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Caribbean Taste, Production, and Regionalism in Early Republic New Orleans

Patrick Callaway, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maine
Grain, Warfare, and the Reunification of the British Atlantic Economy, 1768–1815

Emilie Connolly, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Indian Trust Funds and the Routes of American Capitalism, 1795–1865

Kim Gruenwald, Department of History, Kent University
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce, Networks, and Speculation from the Seven Years’ War through the Louisiana Purchase

Rachel Knecht, PhD Candidate in History Brown University
Quantifying the Economy in the Industrial Age

Katie Moore, PhD Candidate in History, Boston University
“A Just and Honest Valuation”: Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690–1750

Joshua Rothman, Department of History, University of Alabama
The Ledger and the Chain: The Men Who Made America’s Domestic Slave Trade into Big Business

Justin Simard, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Technocrats: Lawyers and Capitalism in Early National America, 1780–1870

Jackson Tait, PhD Candidate in History, Queens University
Assessing Risk and Reputation in Atlantic Maritime Enterprise: The Development of Marine Underwriting Methods and Standards, 1770–1900

Sarah Templier, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors, and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles, and Fashion in French and British North America, 1730–1780

Erin Trahey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaica Economy and Society, 1740–1850

Shuichi Wanibuchi, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
A Colony by Design: Nature, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley, 1680–1780

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Manuel Covo, Department of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Trade, Empire, and Revolutions in the Atlantic World Saint-Domingue, between the Metropole and the United States (1778–1804)

Brian Luskey, Department of History, West Virginia University
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: The Cultural Economy of the American Civil War

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Michigan
‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be?’: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750

Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
Women’s Consumption in Early America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jonathan Barth, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607–1697

Zachary Dorner, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Expert Individuals and Networked Pharmaceuticals: The Making of Britain’s Global Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Jordan Smith, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
The Invention of Rum

David Thomson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
Bonds of War: Capital and Citizenship in the Civil War Era

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Daniel Peart, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London
Democracy in Action? The Making of United States Tariff Policy, 1816–1861

Danielle Skeehan, Department of History, Northeastern University
Creole Domesticity: Women, Commerce, and Kinship in Early Atlantic Writing

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Nicholas Crawford, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Feeding Slavery: Scarcity, Subsistence, and the Political Economy of the British Caribbean, 1783–1833

Toni Pitock, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Commerce and Connection: Jewish Merchants, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic World, 1738–1822

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Michael Blaakman, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land Speculators and Land Mania in Post-Revolutionary America

Mara Caden, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Imperial Capitalism: The Politics of Manufacturing in the British Empire, 1696–1740

Tyson Reeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Interests Soundly Calculated: Philadelphia and Baltimore Merchants in the Luso-Atlantic, 1760–1824

Katherine Smoak, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Ariel Ron, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Roots of the Republican Party

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Corey Goettsch, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
A Nation of Peter Funks: Fraud in Nineteenth-Century America

Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Early American Marine Insurance: Commerce, the Republic, and the Oceans

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sara T. Damiano, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Gender and the Litigated Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790

Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
“Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be”?: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750

Andrew Kopec, PhD Candidate in English, Ohio State University
Attacking Panic: The Financial Work of American Literature, 1819–1857

Susan Stearns, Department of History, Mary Baldwin College
Streams of Interest: The Mississippi River and the Political Economy of the Early Republic, 1783–1803

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Joseph Adelman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763–1789

Martin Ohman, Department of History, University of Virginia
Pursuits of Union: American Political Economy, Federal Politics, and Internal Divisions, 1783–1821

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Andrew Fagal, PhD Candidate in History, Binghamton University
To ‘Provide for the Common Defense’: The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic, 1789–1818

Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c.1784–1862

Edward Pompeian, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Spirited Enterprises: The United States, Venezuela, and the Independence of Latin America, 1790–1823

Danielle Skeehan, PhD Candidate in English, Northeastern University
Counterfeit Subjects: Credit, Commerce, and the Generation of Atlantic World Counterpublics

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California at Berkeley
The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic

Frances Kolb, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University
Contesting Borderlands: Commerce and Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1765–1800

Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To Establish an Intercourse Between our Respective Houses”: Economic Networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1735–1815

Steven Smith, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730–1830

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Katherine Arner, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Making Yellow Fever American: Disease Knowledge and the Geopolitics of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1793–1822

Melissah Pawlikowski, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
In the Land of Liberty: The Squatter Exodus into the Ohio Valley, 1760 to 1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Aaron Marrs, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
“Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution”

Simon Middleton, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Cultures of Credit in Eighteenth-Century America

Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Politicizing America’s Trade with Asia in the Early Republic

Caitlin Rosenthal, PhD Candidate in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Accounting for Control: Bookkeeping in Early Nineteenth-Century America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Martin Brückner, Department of English, University of Delaware
The Social Life of Maps in North America, 1750–1850

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Origins of Republican Economic Policy

Elena Schneider, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Limits of Loyalty: War, Trade, and British Occupation in Eighteenth-Century Havana

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Ian Beamish, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Agricultural Knowledge, Daily Work, and Slavery in the Early Republic

D’Maris Coffman, Department of History, Newnham College, Cambridge
Debating the Excise Tax in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Teagan Schweitzer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Foodways, 1750–1850: The Historical Archaeology of Cuisine

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

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Gautham Rao, Department of History, University of Chicago
Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism, and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Katherin W. Paul, PhD. Candidate in Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh
Social Relationships and Credit Networks Among Craftsmen and Shopkeepers in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia, 1750–1800

Alice Wolfram, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Property, Inheritance, and the Urban Family Economy in Britain, 1680–1780

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Joseph M. Adelman, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765–1776

Michael Block, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Northeastern Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California

Philippe R. Girard, Department of History, McNeese State University
Haiti’s First Ambassador: Joseph Bunel and Haiti’s Diplomatic and Commercial Missions to Philadelphia, 1798–1804

David J. Hancock, Department of History, University of Michigan
Voices in the Taverns: Anglo America, 1607–1815

Peter Hohn, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Opportunity, Enterprise, and Loss: The Moral Economy of the Early Jacksonian Era

Nicholas Osborne, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Building a Country by Saving its Money: The Role of Savings Ideas and Institutions in the Antebellum United States

Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Contest Over the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1730–1830

Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Conceiving an Industrial Nation: Protectionism, Scientific Agriculture, and the Origins of the Republican Economic Program

Jessica Roney, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

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

Michelle Craig McDonald, Department of Atlantic History, Stockton College
Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean, and the Early American Economy, 1765–1825

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Jeffrey Kaja, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675–1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

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

Joe Conway, PhD 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

Max Edling, Department of History, Uppsala University
Financing the Mexican War

Michelle Mormul, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Philadelphia’s Linen Merchants, 1765 to 1815

Brian Phillips Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783–1850

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Marina Moskowitz, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America

Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1600–1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Candice Harrison, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770–1859

Jessica Lepler, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
1837: The Anatomy of a Panic

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

David Davidson, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Republic of Risk: The Intellectual Basis of Entrepreneurship in America, 1783–1800

Lesley Doig, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Unexpected Costs of Revolution: Prosperity and Conflict in American Merchant Families, 1770–1820

Emily Pawley, PhD Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Accounting with Money and Materials in Early American Agriculture

Justin Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Eighteenth-Century Slave Plantation Labor in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Rohit T. Aggarwala, Department of History, Columbia University
Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776–1837

François Furstenberg, Department of History, University of Montreal
French Émigrés in Philadelphia: The French Atlantic World and the Political, Geographical, and Economic Development of the Early U.S. Republic, 1789–1803

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

James Fichter, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The American East Indies, 1773–1815

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Service Economy of Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Regina Grafe, Oxford University
Fiscal Re-Distribution in the Spanish Empire

Emma Hart, St. Andrews University
The Meanings of the Market: A Cultural History of Consumer Behavior in Early America, 1607–1776

Peter Maw, PhD Candidate in History, University of Manchester
The Organizing and Financing of Anglo-American trade from 1783 to 1825

Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin
The Industrial Book, 1840–1880

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Brian Luskey, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Countinghouse Clerks and Counter Jumpers: Young Men and Society in the American Northeast, 1790–1860

Sharon Ann Murphy, Department of History, University of Virginia
A Matter of Life and Death: Life Insurance and the Emergence of the Modern American Economy

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Amanda B. Moniz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760–1815

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sean Adams, Department of History, University of Central Florida
Fires of the Early Republic: The Technology, Consumption, and Household Economies of Heat

Jonathan Eacott, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Fashioning Societies: Eastern Goods in the Making of the Eighteenth-Century World

Robert Grant, Department of English, University of Kent
The Anglo-American West: global contexts/global economies

Karla Kelling, PhD Candidate in History, University of Washington, Seattle
Common Women: Class and Labor in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Eleanor Hayes McConnell, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa
Economic Citizenship in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1763–1820

Michael W. Tuck, Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University
The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Beeswax Trade, ca.1455- ca.1900

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Richard Chew, Visiting Assistant Professor in History, Bucknell University
Interests at Odds with Empire: Currency, the Coastal Trade, and the Making of American Nationhood

Brian Schoen, University of Virginia
The Fragile Economic Fabric of Union: The Cotton South, Federal Union, and the Atlantic World Economy, 1787–1860

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Linzy Brekke, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Scourge of Fashion: Clothing and Cultural Anxiety in the Economy of the New Nation, 1783–1800

James Alexander Dun, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Dangerous Neighbors: Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1789–1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Richard Demirjian, PhD Candidate in American History, The University of Delaware
‘To All the Great Interests’: Political Economy and the Road to a Monroe Doctrine, 1783–1823

Kim Gruenwald, Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
Claiming a Continental Empire: Philadelphia Merchants and the Trans-Appalachian Frontier

Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Mercantilism Meets Mother Nature: Climate, Colonialism, and Economic Change in Cuba, 1763–1783

Christian Koot, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Delaware
In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence in the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles, 1621–1689

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Jane T. Merritt, Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University
The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Michelle L. Craig, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
From Cultivation to Cup: Coffee Trade and Consumption in the British Atlantic Empire, 1765–1833

Stephen A. Mihm, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Making Money: Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789–1877

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Carl Robert Keyes, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Julia C. Ott, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Selling Confidence: Credit, Character, and the Origins of American Market Culture

Andrew Schocket, Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University:
Consolidating Power: Inventing the Corporate Sphere in Philadelphia, 1780–1840

Brian Schoen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Southern Freetraders vs. Pennsylvania Protectionists: The Print Battle for National Political Economic Policy, 1819–1846

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Seth Rockman, Assistant Professor of History, Occidental College
Between Freedom and Slavery: Working for Wages in Early Baltimore and Philadelphia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Michigan
Political Economy in Philadelphia’s Pamphlet Literature of Philanthropy and Reform, 1825–1855

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Mahogany as a Commodity in the Atlantic World Economy

Kenryu Hashikawa, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
City and Country in the Early Republic: Social and Economic Networks in the New York-Philadelphia Region

Brian Luskey, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University: Marginal Men
Clerks and the Social Boundaries of 19th-Century America

Sarah Hand Meacham, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Topography of Drink: Gender and the Creation of a Market for Alcohol in Early Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Donna J. Rilling, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Industry, Environment, and Community in the Early 19th Century Greater Delaware Valley

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Katherine Carté, PhD Candidate in Early American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Of Heaven and Earth: Economic Activity and Religion Among Backcountry Moravians, 1740–1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sean Patrick Adams, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Florida: Old Dominion and Industrial Commonwealths
The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875

Brooke Hunter, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Threshold of Exchange: The Flour Industry of the Lower Delaware River Valley, 1750–1820

Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Adjunct Assistant Professor of American History, Long Island University
A Biography of Robert Morris

Joseph T. Rainer, PhD Candidate in American Studies, The College of William & Mary
The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800–1860

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Social, Economic, and Political Origins of Expanding Access to Financial Institutions in the 19th Century Northeast