2024–25 Program in Early American Economy & Society Research Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emily Whitted
PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Early America
Dissertation Fellow
Dhananjaya Premauden
PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
The Speculation College: How Land and The Speculative Economy Built Early Nineteenth-Century Public Colleges in the United States (1780-1862)
Short-Term Fellows
Anna Apostolidis, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Social Contracts: Consent in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Torren L. Gatson, Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University & Associate Director, Center for Historic Preservation
Desires in the Making: Black Craft, Labor, and Aspirations in Early Philadelphia
Karen Weyler, Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
States of Indenture: Unfree Stories of Early America
Claire Wolnisty, Associate Professor, Austin College
“Piratical Insurgents”: “Pirates” in US Antebellum Slavery Debates