Program in Early American Economy & Society: Past Fellows
2023–2024
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
2022–2023
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
2021–2022
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.
2020–2021
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
2019–2020
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
2018–2019
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
2017–2018
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
2016–2017
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
2015-2016
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
2014-2015
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
2013-2014
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
2012-2013
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
2011-2012
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
2010-2011
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
2009-2010
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
2008–2009
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
2007-2008
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
2006-2007
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
2005-2006
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
2004-2005
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
2003-2004
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
2002-2003
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
2001-2002
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
2000-2001
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