Quaker Research in Progress

Quaker Research ¡? Progress Information concerning Quaker studies in progress but not published should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, 774 Millbrook Lane, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Roger Anstey, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England. AngloAmerican Quakerism and the attack on the British slave trade. (A chapter in a forthcoming book on the Atlantic slave trade. ) Mary G. F. Bitterman, 242 Kaalawai Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816. The early Quaker literature of defense, 1651-1675. Bryn Mawr College: History , thesis for Ph.D. degree. Marion L. Dobbert, 327 River Dr., DeKaIb, Illinois 60115. Clear Creek: a Quaker community, 1830-1930. (An ethnohistorical study of change in the first Hicksite meeting and community in Illinois.) University of Wisconsin : Anthropology and Educational Policy, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Eugene C. Elser, 632 Stinchcomb Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43202. George Fox's communicative behavior. (An attempt to describe and analyze how a charismatic prophet seeks verbally and non-verbally to communicate subjective truth.) Ohio State University: Speech Communication, thesis for Ph.D. degree. B. Eugene Fisher, 108Vi No. 20th St., Richmond, Indiana 47374. A study of toleration among mid-Western Quakers, 1850-1900. (The issues of water baptism and communion and the Richmond Conference of 1887, primarily through the lives and teaching of David B. Updegraff and Dougan Clark.) Earlham School of Religion: thesis for M.A. degree. Richard J. Foster, 23001 Cohasset St., Canoga Park, Calif. 91304. Quaker concern in race relations: then and now. (A comparison between the Quaker attack on slavery and present Quaker attitudes in California and the Northwest .) Fuller Theological Seminary: thesis for Doctor of Pastoral Theology degree. Douglas A. Gamble, 2311 Neil Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43201. Garrisonian abolitionism in the Old Northwest, 1831-1860. (Many western abolitionists were Friends, some of them members of Progressive or Congregational Friends groups.) Ohio State University: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Michael P. Graves, 826 E. Mt. View Ave., Glendora, Calif. 91740. The rhetoric of the Inward Light: an examination of extant sermons delivered by Quakers, 1671-1700. (A rhetorical analysis against the background of the times.) University of Southern California: Speech Communication, thesis for Ph.D. degree. 120 QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS121 Jeffrey A. Kay, 2238 California St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. Corporate discipline and Quaker businessmen in nineteenth-century England. (The importance of religion in the business and professional activities of Friends.) Johns Hopkins University: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. William Medlin, Box 126, Economy, Indiana. The history of Quakerism in South Carolina. Earlham School of Religion: thesis for M.A. degree. William J. Mihm, 1631 Laurel Road, Lindenwold, New Jersey 08021. Early colonial settlers in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey. (A study of the Timber Creek watershed—shipping, mills, roads, and villages; the people involved were essentially of Quaker origin.) Jean Peyer, 42-26 Murray St., Flushing, New York 11355. Jamaica, Long Island, 1656-1776: a study of community organization and social classes. (Political, religious, and social relationships; in part, a quantitative study.) Graduate Center of City University, New York: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Lamont D. Thomas, 10 St. Luke's Place, Montclair, New Jersey 07042. Paul Cuffe. Leigh Royal Tucker, 1735 Dewey St., Apt. 402, Hollywood, Florida 33020. English Quakers and World War I, 1914-1920. University of North Carolina: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. ------------------------. The evanescent thread, or, These small people. (Attitudes and activities of English Quakers, in England, during the 1920's and 1930'$.) E. Raymond Wilson, 4216 Jenifer St., N.W., Washington, DC. 20015. Quakers and legislation; the FCNL story. (History of thirty years of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Quaker lobby in Washington. ) Richard Eugene Wood, 2032 Scotland St., N.W., Canton, Ohio 44709. Midwestern Quakerism and American society, 1860-1940. (Interaction of rural and small-town Quakers with an increasingly urban and non-Protestant national environment.) University of Minnesota: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. ...