Contributors
- Contributors
Jessica Conrad, PhD, is assistant professor of English at Kent State University at Stark, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and print culture. Parts of her dissertation, "Boycott: Literary Intervention in the American Marketplace, 1820–1880" have appeared in American Literature, the edited collection Elusive Archives (2020), and here.
Abigail Corcoran is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She works on nineteenth-century cultural history and is especially interested in the history of women and gender, as well as the history of childhood.
Ian Gavigan is a PhD candidate in history at Rutgers–New Brunswick. His research has been supported by the Pennsylvania State Archives, the Duke University Human Rights Archive, the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University, and the Department of History at Rutgers. He lives in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Haverford College.
Scott Paul Gordon is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Lehigh University. His first projects focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature: The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770 (2002) and The Practice of Quixotism: Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing(2006). His current research focuses on early America, in particular the Moravian experiment in Pennsylvania. His edition of the correspondence of Mary Penry was published by Penn State University Press in 2018, and he is completing a project that focuses on religion, social ambition, and patriotism in colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania by exploring the lives of "worldly Moravians."
Lacey Hunter received her PhD from Drew University. Her research is focused on interrogating the relationship of African American intellectual and spiritual traditions. In particular, her writing highlights the ways in which African American women combine American political and Black spiritual discourse to challenge racial and gender oppression. She is working on her first book, a study on the use and meaning of jeremiadic discourse among African American women in the United States from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century. Currently, she is a professor at Rutgers University–Newark teaching courses on African American and African Studies and History.
Emma Jones Lapsansky is emeritus professor of history and curator of the Quaker Collections at Haverford College. Her research interests and publications include Quaker history, African American history, and especially the intersection between the two, as well as Pennsylvania history, the American West, and various aspects of American social and material-culture history. Recent publications include Quaker Aesthetics (2003, with Anne Verplanck); Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement (2005, with Margaret Hope Bacon); and contributed essays to Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2006) and Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (2003). With Gary Nash and Clayborne Carson, Lapsansky has authored Struggle for Freedom, a college text on African American History, the third edition of which appeared in 2018. She is also a coauthor on the Pearson Education high school American History text. She also continues to serve as a developmental editor on several historical projects on African American and Quaker history and serves on the editorial committee for Pendle Hill pamphlets, as well as on the governing board of the Friends' Historical Association.
Marion Roydhouse is emerita dean of liberal arts and professor of history at Thomas Jefferson University, where she was founding director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Nexus Learning. She retired in 2016 and has been writing and researching again after a hiatus as an administrator and faculty developer. Dr. Roydhouse has just published a new interpretation of the history of woman suffrage, "Votes for Women!" The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment, and she has also written on women in Pennsylvania, on workers' education, and on Southern women's history.
Beverly Tomek is the author of Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania (forthcoming, 2021), Pennsylvania Hall: A "Legal Lynching" in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell (2013), and Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania (2011). She is interim dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston–Victoria, where...
