Research in Progress

Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Women's studies continues to be the field with the heaviest use of Quaker sources and topics. Teresa Feroli, a faculty member in the Department of English, University ofTulsa (600 S. College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104) plans a book on Margaret Fell Fox and her female contemporaries. Charlotte Ann Wroolie (16 Washington Drive, Gales Ferry, CT 06335) is writing her M.A. thesis in English for Trinity College on eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuryQuakerwomen'swriting. AlexaKaraoulis(7010 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 191 19), a graduate student at Temple University, has been studying Philadelphia Quaker women during the CivilWar. F. De Haan (Soendastr. 13, 1094 BD Amsterdam, The Netherlands) has used a visiting appointment with the Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women to begin a book on Elizabeth Fry. Sally Woodward Miller (606 Bunker Hill Road, Strasburg, PA 17579), Executive Director of the Susanna Wright Society for 18th Century Pennsylvania Women's Studies, is planning a book on Susanna Wright of Hempfield (Columbia) county, Pennsylvania. Mary Garman, the faculty member in the Earlham College Religion Department who led the project for microfilming seventeenthcentury Quaker women's writings, is studying Mary Neale and Catherine Phillips and friendship among Quaker women. Akiko Minato (704, 4-5-3, Nishikoiwa, Edogawa, Tokyo, 133, Japan), on the faculty ofthe Women's studies program at Tokyo Christian University, is writing a book on the joint work of Inazo and Mary Nitobe, especially their efforts for the education of women in Japan. Scholars in African-American studies also continue to draw on Quaker sources. Jean Humez ofSomerville, MA is using Emily Howland's diaries in her research on Harriet Tubman. Lucreatia C. Wilson (516 Voshell Mill Star Hill Road, Dover, DE 19901) ofthe Star Hill AME Church is studying Camden, Delaware and the Star Hill area. Two scholars are looking at Quakers and the yellow fever epidemic of the 1790s. Stacy C. Peeples (644 Jefferson Street, Riverside, NJ 08075) is writing her M.A. thesis inhistory at American University on Quakers in the epidemic of 1793. Cynthia Ragland (115-A Bowen Street, Oshkosh, WI 54901), on the faculty ofthe English Department at University ofWisconsin —Oshkosh, is looking particularly at the Garrigues family during the epidemics. Stefano Villani (Via del Brennero 4/5, 56127, Pisa, Italy is including Quaker material in his Ph.D. dissertation in history on links between 66Quaker History England and Italy during the seventeenth century for the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His edition ofA True Account ofthe Great Tryals and Cruel Sufferings Undergone by . . . Katharine Evans andSarah Cheever is scheduled for publication in 1998. In regional American history, Dan Salemson (306 N. Estes Dr., #0-1 1, Carrboro, NC 275 10) is writing his M.A. thesis in history atNorth Carolina State University on southern Quakers in the Civil War. More locally, William J. Mason (2 Linden Avenue, #B-201, Haddonfield, NJ 08033) of the Indian King T.H. Museum is beginning a comprehensive study of Haddonfield in 1777. Roger Moore (435 Camner Avenue, Moorestown, NJ 08057), on the faculty ofthe Anesthesiology Department at the University ofPennsylvania , is preparing a paper on Edward Maris, M.D., for publication and presentation at the American Numismatic Society. In preparation for the centennial of Friends General Conference, FGCs Director of Development , Michael Wajda (1 162 School House Lane, West Chester, PA 19382) is researching the Conference's history. Ronald E. Stroud (156 Elkdale Road, Lincoln University, PA 19352) is preparing a history ofNottingham and Oxford Monthly Meetings. Terence Maguire (1605 Brightwell Drive, Wilmington, DE) and Matthew Micciche (812 Merrybell Lane, Kennett Square, PA 19348), both faculty at Wilmington Friends School, are working on history of the School, being edited by Nina Hope for publication for the 250th anniversary in 1998. Several scholars and curators are preparing exhibits involving Quaker materials. Curtis Miner ofthe Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the State Museum (P.O. Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108) is planning a permanent exhibit involving the Ozone Golf Club and the Griscom Hall Association. Susan McNaughton and Brad Thompson ofthe Barclay Farmstead Museum (357 Bortón Mill Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034) have been studying everyday...