2008-2009 PEAES Fellows

 

Resident 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. 

 

Resident 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