2008

 

October 8, 2008

Jeffrey Kaja, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: PEAES Dissertation Fellow “Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800”

 

 

2007

 

August 1, 2007

Joe Conway, Ph.D. 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"

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.

Dr. Max Edling, Department of History, Uppsala University: "Financing the Mexican War"

 

Monday, July 9, 2007, 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.

Michelle Mormul, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware, PEAES Short Term Fellow: "Philadelphia's Linen Merchants, 1765 to 1815"

 

March 6, 2007

David Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Northwestern University: "Republic of Risk: The Intellectual Basis of Entrepreneurship in America, 1783-1800."

 

February 2, 2007

Lesley Doig, Rutgers University, PEAES Short Term Fellow: "The Unexpected Costs of Revolution: Prosperity and Conflict in American Merchant Families, 1770-1820"

 

2006

 

January 26, 2006

James Fichter, Ph.D. candidate in History, Harvard University, "The American East Indies, 1773-1815”

 

January 26, 2006

Peter Maw, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Manchester, “The Organizing and Financing of Anglo-American trade from 1783 to 1825”

 

September 8, 2006

Candice Harrison, Ph.D. candidate in History, Emory University, “The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770-1859”

 

September 8, 2006

Jessica Lepler, Ph.D. candidate in History, Brandeis University, “1837: The Anatomy of a Panic”

 

July 13, 2006

Emily Pawley, Ph.D. Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Accounting with Money and Materials in Early American Agriculture"

 

June 5, 2006

Justin Roberts, Ph.D. candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University, "Daily Labors: A Comparative Study of Plantation Work Regimes in the Chesapeake and the British West Indies in the Late Eighteenth Century"

 

2005

 

October 24, 2005

Marina Moskowitz, Short-Term Fellow, Program in Early American Economy and Society: "Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America."

 

February 4, 2005

Sean Adams, PEAES Short-term Fellow: "Fires of the Early Republic: The Technology, Consumption, and Household Economies of Heat"

 

Sharon Ann Murphy, PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow: "The Money Value of a Man: Insuring Life in the Early Republic"

 

March 18, 2005

Michael Tuck, PEAES Short-term Fellow: "Global Trade, Local Change: A Study of the Beeswax Trade in the Atlantic World, c. 1450-1961."

 

2004

 

November 16, 2004

Jonathan Eacott, PEAES Short-term Fellow: "Owning Empire: East Indian Goods and the Development of the Anglophone World, 1740-1830"

 

November 19, 2004

Brian Luskey, PEAES Post-doctoral Fellow: "Manliness and Respectability: White-Collar Workers in Antebellum America."

 

September 9, 2004

Amanda B. Moniz, PEAES Dissertation Fellow: "'Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe': Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815

 

June 8, 2004

Eleanor Hayes McConnell, Ph. D. candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa: “Economic Citizenship in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1763-1820”

 

February 2, 2004

Dr. Richard Chew, Department of History, Bucknell University: "Interests at Odds with Empire: Currency, the Coastal Trade, and the Making of American Nationhood"

 

February 10, 2004

Dr. Brian Schoen, University of Virginia: "Loosening the Bonds of Union: The Political Economy of Cotton, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis."

 

2003

 

February 5, 2003

Michelle Craig, University of Michigan, "From Cultivation to Cup: Coffee Trade and Consumption in the British Atlantic Empire, 1765-1833."

 

July 10 2003

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

 

August 7, 2003

Kim Gruenwald, Kent State University, "Claiming a Continental Empire: Philadelphia Merchants ad the Trans-Appalachian Frontier."

 

October 1, 2003

Richard Demirjian, University of Delaware, "To All the Great Interests: Political Economy in the Early Urban Republic, 1783-1823."

 

October 14, 2003

Christian Koot, University of Delaware, "In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence in the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles, 1621-1689."

 

November 10, 2003

James Alexander Dun, Princeton University, "Dangerous Neighbors: Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1780-1808."

 

2002

 

April 10, 2002

Sarah Hand Meacham, University of Virginia, "Gender and the Creation of a Market for Alcohol in Early Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland."

 

May 20, 2002

Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence, New York University, "Mahogany as Commodity in the Atlantic World Economy."

 

August 2, 2002

Brian Schoen, University of Virginia, "Pennsylvania Protectionists vs. Southern Free Traders. The Print Battle for National Political Economic Policy 1819-1846."

 

Carl Robert Keyes, Johns Hopkins University, "Advertising and Marketing in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia: The Role of Merchants, Shopkeepers, Artisans, adn Printers in the Consumption of Newspaper Notices."

 

October 24, 2002

Jane Merritt, Old Dominion University, "The Trouble with Tea: Consuption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."

 

November 7, 2002

Julia Ott, Yale University, "Character, Confidence, and Credit: The Formation of American Market Culture, 1791-1857."

 

December 3, 2002

Stephen Mihm, New York University, "Making Money: Counterfeiting and Capitalism in the United States 1789-1877."

 

2001

 

June 21, 2001

Joseph Rainer, University of Richmond, "The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800-1860"

 

July 12, 2001

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

 

July 26, 2001

Brooke Hunter, University of Delaware, "The Threshold of Exchange: The Flour Industry of the Lower Delaware River Valley, 1750-1820"

 

August 9, 2001

Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Long Island University, "A Biography of Robert Morris"

 

May 2001

Sean Patrick Adams, University of Central Florida, "Old Dominion and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810-1875"

 

November 14, 2001

Kenryu Hashikawa, Columbia University, "Social and Economic Networks in the New York-Philadelphia Regions."

 

August 3, 2001

Brian Luskey, Emory University, "Marginal Men: Clerks & the Social Boundaries of 19th Century America."