Research in Progress

Research in Progress Mary Ellen Chijioke & Claire B. Shetter Current biographical studies illustrate the continuing variety of Quaker research . Linda Holden (4 Apple Tree Lane, Newtown Square, PA, 19073), graduate student in the history department, West Chester University, is working on Margaret Fell Fox. Alison Hirsch (4627 Hazel Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143), on the American Studies faculty at Penn State University, is writing an article on Hannah Penn for Pennsylvania History. Tara Martin Judge (118 South Gregg St., Columbia , SC 29205) is writing her M.A. thesis in history for the University of South Carolina on Sophia Hume. Wilmington College Dean emeritus, Sterling P. Olmsted (490 West Locust St., Wilmington OH 45177) continues his interest in John Woolman but is currently concentrating on Edward Taylor ofDublin. Larry Miller (170 Aarops Ave., New Britain, PA 18901) is writing a book-length biography of Clarence E. Pickett. Kenneth L. Carroll (112 Brookletts Avenue, Easton, MD 2 1 60 1) personifies the continuity oftrans-Atlantic Quakerism. Quite fittingly, he is preparing an article on Maryland Quakers in England, 1659-1720. Marge Abbott (1830 N.E. Klickitat, Portland, OR 97212) is working on a number oftopics, including ahistory ofliberal Quakerbeliefand a presentation on Rachel Hicks. Quaker topics remain a fertile field for American social historians. Jeffrey B. Webb (5709 S. Ellis, #21 1, Chicago, IL 60637) is writing his Ph.D. dissertation in history for the University of Chicago on the formation of a local elite in Chester County, 1682-1730, with particular emphasis on the world view of middling Quakers. He is using the life and writings ofCaleb Pusey as the narrativebackbone ofthe project. In a somewhat different vein, Carla Gerona (101 W. 12th St., Apt. 8W, New York, NY 10011) is writing her Ph.D. dissertation for Johns Hopkins University on dreams in the colonial Pennsylvania Quaker community. Marilyn Dell Brady (1316 Lakeview Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23455), faculty member in the department ofhistory at Virginia Wesleyan College, is studying eighteenthcentury Quaker women. Two researchers have reported work on the American Revolutionary period. Jennifer Ann Moon (109 Woodrow St., #28, Charlottesville, VA 22903) is writing a Ph.D. dissertation for the history department, University ofVirginia, on Quakers and poor relief in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Stacy F. Roth (P.O. Box 383, Langhorne, PA 19047), visiting scholar in the department of communication Information and Library Science at Rutgers University, is studying the community of Shrewsbury, NJ, including Quakers, during the Revolution. For the post-Revolutionary period, Neva J. Specht (140 W. Main, Apt. 4, Newark, DE 1971 1), a doctoral candidate in American history and religion at the University of Delaware, is preparing her dissertation on "Mixed Blessing: TransAppalachian Settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1810." Barbara Harrell Carson (221 Glenridge Way, Winter Park, FL 32789), faculty member at Rollins College, in writing a book on "The Simple Life: The Concept 84Quaker History ofthe Good Life in Nineteenth-century American Literature." Stephen Becker (450 W. Briar Place, #74, Chicago, IL 60657) in writing his M.A. thesis in communication studies and rhetoric forNorthwestern University on Philadelphia meeting houses, asking how the form and function related to Quaker concepts ofegalitarianism, worship, church governance, and public life and how these changed over time to meet Quakers' changing rhetorical and performative needs. Julie Garito (106 Rock Rose Lane, Radnor, PA 19087) is doing her M.A. thesis forthe University ofPennsylvania on Quaker meeting houses ofChesterand Delaware Counties. She is also interested in Abiah Taylor and Deborah Parker Taylor. A number ofstudies ofparticular occupations or skills include Quakers or draw on Quaker sources. Sandy Reber (P.O. Box 501, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA 1 9348) is preparing a museum display on eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury botanists in the Philadelphia area, including John Bartram, Humphrey Marshall, and the Painter brothers. John S. Craig (Box 1637, Torrington, CT 06790) is working on a five-volume book on American daguerreotypists, 18391860 ), while Steven L. Jones (4810 Florence Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143) is writing an article on Philadelphia African-American artists in the nineteenth century. Two researchers have reported work on Quaker-Native American relations. Peg Walbert (109 Windsor Rd., Queenstown, MD 21658), doctoral student in early American history for West...