Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Gautham Rao, Department of History, University of Chicago, “Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic. Spring 2009.”

Dissertation Fellows

Katherin W. Paul, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh, “Social Relationships and Credit Networks Among Craftsmen and Shopkeepers in Edinburgh, Londo,n and Philadelphia, 1750-1800.”

Alice Wolfram, Department of History, Yale University, “Property, Inheritance and the Urban Family Economy in Britain, 1680-1780.”

Short-Term Fellows

Joseph M. Adelman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1776.”

Michael Block, Department of History, University of Southern California, “Northeastern Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California.”

Dr. 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; for a new projects Voices in the Taverns: Anglo America, 1607-1815
Peter Hohn, Department of History, University of California, Davis,”Opportunity, Enterprise, and Loss: The Moral Economy of the Early Jacksonian Era.”

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

Colleen Rafferty, Department of History, University of Delaware, “The Contest Over the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1730-1830.”

Ariel Ron, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, “Conceiving an Industrial Nation: Protectionism, Scientific Agriculture, and the Origins of the Republican Economic Program.”

Jessica Roney, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, “First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775.”