Research in Progress

Research in Progress Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison Current research in Quaker history ranges from the most general to the mostspecific. Inthe firstcategory, MargeryPostAbbott(1830NEKlicketat St., Portland, OR 97212) is clerking a group of editors to produce an "Historical Dictionary ofQuakerism," to be published by Scarecrow Press. In other large-scale projects, Pamela Nelson (4709 Windsor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143) is producing a travelling exhibit and booklet to commemoratethe centennialin2000 ofFriends General Conference (FGC); and Anthony Manousos, editor of Friends Bulletin (5238 Andalucía Ct., Whittier, CA 90601) is working on "A Western Quaker Reader, 19291999 ," to cover the history ofunprogrammed Quakers on the West Coast. Others working on aspects of FGC history for this occasion include Charles E. Fager (449 Irish Hollow Rd, Bellefonte, PA 16823), who is concentrating on theological history; Robert Pollard Fetter (2923 Carolina Avenue, S.W., Roanoke, VA 24014-3203), who is coordinating the oral history project; and Deborah Haines (2794 Fort Scott Drive, Arlington, VA 22202), Clerk of the FGC Centennial Committee. Among scholars studying the early periods of Quakerism, Jane Orion Smith has used a Cadbury Fellowship at Pendle Hill (338 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA 19086) to work on a new edition ofthe writings ofJames Nayler. Douglas Gwyn, also of Pendle Hill, continues his research on seventeenth-century Seekers and Quakers. Norman T. Burns (417 W. BenitaBlvd, Vestal,NY 13850),ProfessorEmeritusat SUNY—Binghamton, is concentrating his studies onMary Penington. Representingnewermedia, BarbaraBoyden, Producerat Sleeping GiantProductions (165 Shaw Street, Toronto, Ont.) isworking on avideo forCBC onGeorgeFoxandthe Quaker Movement. Quakerism continues to stimulate research in American philanthropy. Jane Calvert (18332 Martin Ave., Homewood, IL 60430), Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, is studying the relationship between the voluntary service and philanthropic organizations of eighteenth-century Quakers and political institutions. Brian Almutt (6355 Country Rd., New Tripoli, PA 18066) is studying Quaker organizations for his Ph.D. dissertation for Lehigh University on African-American children's recreations from the 1880s to the 1920s. A number of scholars are studying Quakers and the antislavery movement . For his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University (The Graduate 76Quaker History College, Princeton, NJ 08544) Ryan Jordan is looking atthe personal views ofeighteenth-centuryQuakers regarding slaveryandAfricanAmericans, as opposed to official corporate statements. Sandra McCarthy (50 John Dyer Way, Doylestown, PA 18901) is writing her MA thesis in the Villanova University Masters Program in Liberal Studies on abolitionist civilian activity during the Civil War era. Linda A. Rabben (402 Lincoln Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912), Brazil Co-Group Coordinator for Amnesty International, is doingresearch for abookon the eighteenth- andnineteenthcentury campaigns against slavery and the slave trade. James Robinson Alonford, Jr. (1623 Hugo Circle, Silver Spring, MD 20906) is also planning a doctoral dissertation in the area of abolition. Quaker women continue to be a popular subject for research. Elizabeth Rosa Yeats (1801 Wells Brace Pkwy #1014, Austin, TX 78728), Clerk of Quakers Uniting in Publication, is planning a book on parenting and education ofnineteenth-century women. Jennifer Bordd (127 E. Hamilton Ave., Apt. 27, State College, PA 16801), Ph.D. candidate at Pennsylvania State University, is doing her dissertation on woman suffrage. Stephanie Holyfield (83 1 MeadowlarkDrive, Harrisonburg, VA 22802), iswritingher masters thesis for James Madison University on Quaker women's prison writings. Lorraine Gates (6600 Tenth St. #A1, Alexandria, VA 22307), Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia, is using Quaker women's papers to study southernwomen's political activities. GailM. Pietrzyk (416 Fifth Street, Oxford, PA 19363) is producing a video on Quaker businesswoman Rebecca Pennock Lukens. Going beyond Anglo-American Quakerism Jung Jiseok (Pendle Hill, 338 PlushMillRd., Wallingford, PA 1 9086) is working on astudy ofKorean reunification theology in the light of the Quaker peace testimony and the thought ofthe late Korean Quaker Ham Sok-Han. Two researchers are looking at Quakerism through the lens of local history. Cynthia Manquet, Curator of the Ressler Mill Foundation (2280 Stumptown Rd., Ronks, PA 17572) is seeking biographical information on Lancaster County settlers Hatill Varían, John Piggott and Samuel Jackson. MargarettaRichardi (50AllandaleRd., Wynnewood,PA 19096) is studying the career ofJohn Penn for Philadelphia 2000. Virginia Barrett Price has replaced Aaron Wunsch as assistant to Historian Catherine C...