Past and Present Gest Fellows
The following list includes all past and present Gest Fellows, their degree program or professional position at the time of the award, institutional affiliation, and the title of their research project conducted in the Quaker Collection.
| 2009 | Catherine Baylin M.A. student in Middle Eastern Studies The American University in Cairo "Quaker Missionary Work in Lebanon" |
| Christian Gonzales Ph.D. candidate in United States History University of California, San Diego "Anglo-Indian Antiremoval Collaboration, 1819-1859" |
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| Michael E. McGuire Ph.D. candidate in History Boston University "Quaker NGOs That Offered Humanitarian Aid to France During and After World War I" |
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| 2008 | Rachel Cope Ph.D. candidate in American History Syracuse University "'In Some Places a Few Drops and Other Places a Plentiful Shower': Female Religious Experience in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Elizabeth Kimbal Ph.D. candidate in English Temple University "Friends Education in Philadelphia, c. 1800: Language Teaching 'for Time and Eternity'" |
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| Katherine Sedgwick Ph.D. candidate in History and Education University of Pennsylvania "The Meaning of Truth and Purpose in Higher Education: Religion, Curricula, and Pedagogy, 1850-1930" |
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| 2007 | Amanda Herbert Bilby Ph.D. candidate in History Johns Hopkins University "Yokemates: Quaker Women's Alliances in Britain and America, 1630-1750" |
| Timothy Hayburn Ph.D. candidate in American History Lehigh University "Who Should Die?: The Evolution of Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania, 1718-1794." |
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| Jordan Landes Ph.D. candidate in Early Modern History Centre for Metropolitan History in the Institute for Historical Research at University of London "London's Role in the Creation of a Transatlantic Quaker Community" |
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| 2006 | Sarah Manekin Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History University of Pennsylvania "Schoolmasters Abroad in the Land': American Educators and American Empire, 1865-1940" |
| Linda Webster Professor of Speech University of Arkansas at Monticello "Female Quaker Rhetors as Standard Bearers of 19th-Century Feminist Activism" |
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| 2005 | Dee Andrews Professor of History California State University, Hayward "Emancipation on the Borderline, 1760-1820" |
| Sarah Crabtree Ph.D. candidate in History University of Minnesota "A Nation of God: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in the Age of Revolution" |
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| Barbara Heather & Marianne Nielsen Professors of Psychology/Sociology and Criminal Justice Grant MacEwan College and Northern Arizona University "Quaker Peace-Making and Native American Restorative Justice |
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| 2004 | Catharine Dann Ph.D. candidate in History College of William and Mary "Building and Planting: The Social Landscape of Philadelphia, 1680-1750" |
| Thomas Rzeznik Ph.D. candidate in History University of Notre Dame "Spiritual Capital: Religion, Wealth, and Social Status in Philadelphia, 1880-1950" |
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| Chad Thralls Ph.D. candidate in Spirituality The Catholic University of America "Thomas Kelly's Contribution to Quaker Spirituality and Peacemaking" |
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| 2003 | Margaret Abruzzo Ph.D. candidate in History University of Notre Dame "Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in 18th- and 19th-Century Moral Debate" |
| Richard Allen Lecturer in Early Modern History University of Newcastle "The Migratory Instinct: Welsh Quaker Emigrants to Pennsylvania, c. 1680-1750" |
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| Kathleen Minnix Independent Scholar "Soul Afire: The Devout and Heretical Life of Hannah Whitall Smith |
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| Thomas M. Ricks Visiting Associate Professor of History University of Pennsylvania "The Quaker Educators of Ramallah, Palestine, AD 1869-1969" |
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| 2002 | Matthew Hedstrom Ph.D. candidate in American Studies The University of Texas at Austin "Rufus Jones and his Writings in the Context of Popular Religion" |
| Anthony Manousos Editor Friends Bulletin "Howard Brinton and the Peace Testimony" |
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| Fred Saddler Ph.D. candidate in History Temple University "Before Benevolence: Masters, Slaves and Quakerism; Burlington, New Jersey, 1686-1738" |
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| 2001 | Gwen Alker Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies New York University "Silent Subjectivities: The Performance of Silence in Theatre, Ritual, and Sound" |
| Gabrielle Gottlieb Ph.D. candidate in Early American History University of Pittsburgh "'The Punishment of a Few' for 'the Preservation of Multitudes': Capital Punishment, Penal Reform and Social Order in late 18th-century Philadelphia" |
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| 2000 | Jane Calvert Ph.D. candidate in History University of Chicago "Dissenters in their Own Country: The Quaker Contribution to American Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century" |
| Glenn Crothers Assistant Professor of History Indiana University Southeast "Negotiating Communities and Cultures: Quakers and Slavery in Early National Northern Virginia" |
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| Nicole Eustace Ph.D. candidate in History University of Pennsylvania "'Passion Is the Gale': Emotion and Power on the Eve of the American Revolution" |
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| 1999 | Nathaniel Frank Ph.D. candidate in History Brown University "Producing Men: Work, Manhood and the Rise of Capitalism in the Early American Republic" |
| Steven Harper Ph.D. candidate in American History Lehigh University "Early American Quakers in the Delaware Valley, and how their world views meshed/didn't mesh with the world view of local Indians" |
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| John Smolenski Ph.D. candidate in History and M.A. candidate in Anthropology University of Pennsylvania "Friends and Strangers: Religion, Diversity and the Ordering of Public Life in colonial Pennsylvania, 1681-1776" |
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| 1998 | Margaret Hope Bacon Independent Scholar "Sarah Mapps Douglass and Prejudice in the Nineteenth Century Society of Friends" |
| Jennifer Elam Cadbury Scholar Pendle Hill "Dancing with God through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness" |
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| Alessandro Falcetta Ph.D. candidate in Theology University of Birmingham "James Rendel Harris: a Spiritual Mand and a Scholar of Early Christian Literature" |
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| 1997 | Elizabeth Cazden Independent Scholar "New England Independent Meetings, 1930-1950" |
| Marty Grundy Independent Scholar "Bethany Mission for Colored People, 1856-1939" |
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| Andrea Constantine Hawkes Ph.D. candidate in History University of Maine "Elizabeth McClintock, Quaker Business Woman" |
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| Richard Rath Ph.D. candidate in History Brandeis University "Early American Soundways, 1600-1800" |
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| Liam Riordan Lecturer in History University of Pennsylvania "Identities in the New Nation: The Creation of an American mainstream in the Delaware Valley, 1770-1830" |
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| Karim Tiro Ph.D. candidate in History University of Pennsylvania "The People of the Standing Stone: the Oneida Indian Nation from Revolution through Removal, 1768-1850" |
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| 1996 | Paul Anderson Associate Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies George Fox College "'The Eclipse of the Historical Jesus' and Other New Testament Essays by Henry Joel Cadbury" |
| Connie Anderton Ph.D. candidate in History University of Delaware "Quakers and Indians: Quaker Work with the Shawnees 1810-1862" |
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| Carla Gerona Ph.D. candidate in History Johns Hopkins University "Night Journeys: The Authority of Dreams in American Quaker Culture, 1681-1829" |
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| Maurice Jackson Ph.D. candidate in History Georgetown University "Anthony Benezet and the Atlantic Antislavery Revolution" |
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| Maya Wilson B.A. student in Sociology Haverford College "Exploration of Modern Quaker Serivce" |
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| 1995 | Margery Post Abbott Independent Scholar "A Certain Kind of Perfection: an Anthology of Evangelical and Liberal Quaker Writers" |
| Catherine Blecki Professor of English San Jose State University "Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America" |
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| Paul Graseck Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies University of Connecticut "Enoch Lewis - 19th Century Quaker Educator" |
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| David W. McFadden Associate Professor of History Fairfield University "Quakers in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931" |
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| 1994 | Glenn Cummings Ph.D. candidate in English University of Virginia "'Exercising Goodness': The Antislavery Quaker in American Writing, 1774-1850" |
| Carol Karlsen Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies University of Michigan "Relations of Power, the Power of Relations: Iroquis Communities in Central and Western New York, 1750-1900" |
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| Neva Jean Specht Ph.D. candidate in U.S. Colonial and Early National History University of Delaware "Mixed Blessing: Trans-Appalachian Settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1830" |
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| Sergei Zhuk Associate Professor of History Dniepropetrovak State University, Ukraine "'Brothers in Divorce'": Quaker Attitudes Toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America |
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| 1993 | Sarah B. Gant M.Div. student Harvard Divinity School "The Quaker Business Ethic and an American Way of Life" |
| Li Li Ph.D. candidate in American Diplomacy University of North Carolina "The Expression of Self-Identity: American Missionary Response to the May 30th Movement" |
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| Jacquelyn Miller Ph.D. candidate in Early American/Early Modern European History Rutgers University "The Body Politic: Disease, Political Culture and Religion in the Age of the American Revolution" |
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| Merril D. Smith Independent Scholar "Mothers and Daughters: The Transmission of Culture in Early America" |
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| Karin A. Wulf Ph.D. candidate in History Johns Hopkins University "Marriage, Spinsterhood and a Female Self: Quaker 'Maidens' in 18th-century Philadelphia" |
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| 1992 | Nancy Rosenberg Assistant Professor of History Hiram College "Schism and the Voice of Quaker Women" |