Research in Progress

Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke Several scholars are studying Quakerrelations withNativeAmericans inthelate eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Robert S. Cox (220 Bloomingdale Ave., Wayne, PA 19087), Curator at the American Philosophical Society, is conducting research fora book on Quaker missions to the Indians, 1 790-1 8 1 5. Jill Kinney (273 Cypress St., Apt. 3, Rochester NY 14620), doctoral student at the University of Rochester, is studying the witchcraft accusations and executions related to Handsome Lake's prophecy of 1799. Pam Sullivan (1396 Joshua Tree Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635), graduate student in American Literature at the University of Arizona, is reviewing early primers and other educational books for the origins and use of Handsome Lake's story on "How America Was Discovered." James Driscoll, ofthe Queens Historical Society (143-35 37th Ave,, Flushing, NY 1 1358) is using records of Friends in Flushing and New York for his study of the abolition of slavery on Long Island. Richard Allen, Senior Lecturer in History at Trinity College, University of Wales (College Rd., Carmarthen, Wales SA31 3EP, Britain), is continuing his studies of Caribbean and Welsh Friends with the use of American and Caribbean Quaker records. Douglas J. Newton of the University of Western Sydney (P.O. Box 555, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, Australia) has been paying particular attention to the work of American Quaker William I. Hull as he does the research for a book entitled '"A Lasting Peace' : British Radicals and the Search for a Negotiated Peace with Germany During the First World War." Timothy J. Cunningham (7612 Woodlawn Ave., Elkins Park, PA 19027), graduate student in History at Villanova University, is studying Quaker and pacifist influence on U.S. foreign policy before World War II. Michele Lise Tarter (3 S. Main St., #4, Historic Fallsington, PA 19054), Assistant Professor at the College ofNew Jersey, is continuing her study ofearly Quaker women by examining their diaries and prophesying in America. Susanna Calkins (calkins@omni.cc.purdue.edu), has a Purdue Research Fellowship for her doctoral dissertation in History at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907), "Pamphlets and Prophesies: Political Culture and English Quaker Women, 1650— 1700." Her work focuses on five seventeenth-century Quaker women: Esther Biddle, Elizabeth Hooton, Joan Vokins, Joan Whitrowe, and Ann Docwra. Kirilka Stavreva (1510 Muscatine Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240), Associate Professor of English at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, has a faculty development grant for her research on "home" and seventeenth-century Quaker women. Two scholars are looking at the different aspects of the Quaker mystical experience. Forher doctoral research in History at the University ofDelaware, Ann Kirschner(23 Chatham Rd., Ardmore, PA 19003), is doing a cross-denominational study, including Quakers, on the relevance ofdreams and visions to religious life 76Quaker History ofthe eighteenth andearly nineteenth centuries. RosalindT. Zuses (233 Ashton Rd., Ashton, MD 20861) has been studying healing in Quaker history. In biographical studies, Christopher Densmore (67 Randwood Drive, Getzville, NY 14068) University Archivist at the University ofBuffalo, is writing a book on Timothy Rogers (ca. 1756-1 820), a Quaker from New York, Vermont, and Upper Canada. Shelley King, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Queen's University (Kingston, ONT K7L 3W6), has been leading a team to study the letters and papers of Amelia Opie. Despite their rarity, two Quaker artists are the subjects of current research. Barbara Karsky, Professor at the Université Paris VII (40 rue Chariot, Paris 75003, France), is studying the correspondence of Benjamin West. Robert Tochia (1604 Arcadia Drive #209, Jacksonville, FL 32207), Professor of Art History at the University ofNorth Florida, is studying the work ofCharles Lewis Fussell (18401909 ), as well as the Old Alms House in Philadelphia. Steven C. Harper (2 Saucon Village, #122, Bethlehem, PA 18015), doctoral candidate at Lehigh University, is doing his dissertation on property holding and land settlement and their consequences in Bucks and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania, 1600-1763. Also in local history, Liam Riordan (149 Fountain St., Bangor, ME 04401), ofthe University ofMaine, is writing a history ofBurlington, New Jersey, 1770-1830. Leslie B. Potter (56 N. Pennell Rd, P.O. Box 16, Glen Mills, PA 19342-0016) is using records ofQuakers living in the...