Research in Progress

Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter The ultimate measure ofa scholar's impact is to be the subject ofanother scholar's research. Paul Anderson, faculty member in the Department of Religion, George Fox University (Newberg, OR 97132) used a Gest Fellowship at Haverford College to study Henry J. Cadbury's New Testament contribution and his correspondence with other New Testament scholars. The resulting work, "The Eclipse of the Historical Jesus, and Other New Testament Essays by Henry Cadbury," is to be published by Trinity Press International. In the area of Quakers and peace, Mary Lee Morrison (129 Penn Drive, West Hartford, CT 06119) is writing her dissertation for the University of Connecticut on Quaker peace pedagogy between the 1940s and the 1960s as itmay have influenced the writings and thoughts of another major modern scholar and Friend, Elise Boulding. Lucy Mclver, Cadbury Scholar at Pendle Hill (338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086), is working on a book on the historical development of Quaker attitudes towards death and dying. Two projects are looking at Quaker missionary efforts. Maina Singh (235 E. 43rd Street, #19, New York, NY 10017), faculty ofthe University ofDelhi and the City University ofNew York, is studying Quakers in India and Quaker missionaries overseas as part ofa larger study ofthe impact of missionaries from the Indian point of view. John Oliver (History Department , Malone College, Canton, Ohio 44709), Charles Cherry (English Department, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085), and Mary Ellen Chijioke (Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1908 1) are collaborating to produce a scholarly edition of the early diaries of Willis R. Hotchkiss, the first Quaker missionary to Kenya. Jean R. Soderlund (5171 Vera Cruz Road, Center Valley, PA 18034), member of the History Department at Lehigh University, is writing an article on the social context in which John Woolman came to oppose slavery and is working on a long-term project on growing up in the Delaware Valley in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Working under Jean Soderlund, Brian W. Refford (P.O. Box 295, 430 Creek Road, Downingtown, PA 19335) is writing his dissertation in History for Lehigh on William Penn and the institutionalization of Quakerism, 16671689 . Research in Philadelphia social history covers a wide chronological span. David Sampliner (226 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012) has a Mellon Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society and a Liebmann Fellowship for his New York University dissertation on enlight- 78Quaker History enment culture in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Nina Kerman (History Department, Maxey Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362) is expanding for publication her dissertation on social structure and technological knowledge in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. She includes the Institute for Colored Youth inher study ofnormal and industrial education. Terry Snyder (339 W. Durham Street, Philadelphia, PA 19119) is writing her dissertation in American Civilization at the University ofPennsylvania on old age institutions in the Philadelphia region, 1870-1929. Daniel L. Schäfer (1718 Osceola Street, Jacksonville, FL), faculty at the University ofNorth Florida, is writing abiography ofZephaniah Kingsley, Jr., who was born to a Quaker family in Bristol in 1765, moved all over the western hemisphere, married an African woman, became involved in abolitionist activities and finally died in New York in 1843. Beth Salerno (2301 26th Avenue, South, Minneapolis, MN 55406) is writing her dissertation at the University of Minnesota on a less peripatetic group of abolitionists, the female anti-slavery societies in the U.S., ca. 1820-1860. She is looking at their international interactions, international communication and organization. Emily Godbey (5307 S. Ellis, #3E, Chicago, IL 60615) is writing her dissertation for the University of Chicago on Quakers and nineteenthcentury photography. There are, ofcourse, a number ofworks in progress related to women's studies. Sarah E. Fatherly (330 Norris Court, #5, Madison, WI 53703) is writing her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin on women's roles in the creation of elite culture in mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Mary Anne Murschell (16 Villa Avenue, Pitman, NJ 0807 1), faculty at the Géraldine Dodge Foundation, is studying women of the underground railroad and the history of Southern New Jersey for both a New Jersey Internet home...