2020
Ute Possekel
Lecturer on Syriac
Harvard Divinity School
"The Syriac Manuscripts in the Haverford College Library"
Kyle Repella
Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of Pennsylvania
"Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Greater Delaware Valley, 1600-1750"
Olatunde Taiwo
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Diplomatic Studies
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
"Quaker Philanthropy in the Rise of Friends in Africa, 1800-2020"
2019
Eric Lamore
Professor of English
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
“Abigail Field Mott’s 1829 Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Edition”
Thomas Whittaker
Ph.D. Candidate in Religion
Harvard University
"Missionary Activism among American Protestants from the late 1780s to the early 1830s"
Jessica Conrad
Assistant Professor of English
Kent State University at Stark
“Activist Artifacts: The Material Culture of Abolitionist Boycott”
Note: there were no Gest Fellows for 2018.
2017
Deborah Hamer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary
"Declining Patriarchy: Marriage and Diversity in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800"
Elana Krischer
Ph.D. candidate in History
State University of New York at Albany
"Quakers and Seneca Land in Western New York"
Ryan G. Tobler
Ph.D. candidate in Religion
Harvard University
"Invidious Rites: The Politics of Religious Practice in Early America"
2016
Kristen Beales
Ph.D. candidate in History
The College of William and Mary
"Religion and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century America"
Ean High
Ph.D. candidate in English
Northwestern University
"Quakerism, Silence, and the Religious Body in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
Kallie Kosc
Ph.D. candidate in History
Texas Christian University
"The Education of Mary Doxtator: Indian Women, Community, and Power in the Early Republic, 1780-1837"
2015
Julie Holcomb
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies
Baylor University
"'No One Was More Faithful': George W. Taylor, Quakers, and Reform in the Nineteenth Century"
Julian Phillips
M.A. candidate in Near Eastern Studies
New York University
"The Audi Family, the Friends' Ramallah Mission, and Palestinian Migration to the United States"
Nicholas P. Wood
Adjunct Professor of History
University of Virginia
"Before Garrison: Antislavery & Politics in the New Nation"
2014
William Fenton
Ph.D. candidate in English
Fordham University
"Fighting Quakers, Revolutionary Violence, and the Antebellum Novel"
Janet Moore Lindman
Professor of History
Rowan University
"Practical Religion in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1650-1850"
Issac May
Ph.D. candidate in Religion
University of Virginia
"The Struggle for Gender Equality in Quaker Meetings"
2013
Kathryn Falvo
M.A. student in History and Women's Studies
Penn State University
"Spurning the Protection of Man: Quaker Women and Travel in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"
Anelise Shrout
Ph.D. candidate in History
New York University
"Distressing News: Irish Famine, Politics and the Making of International Philanthropy"
2012
Michael Cohen
Assistant Professor of English
University of California at Los Angeles
"Poetry, Abolition, and a Circle of Friends"
Alec Dun
Assistant Professor of History
Princeton University
"The 'Age of Revolution' from the vantage point of the household of Henry and Elizabeth Drinker"
Jonathan Sassi
Associate Professor of History
College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY
"Toward Gradual Emancipation in New Jersey"
Ben Wright
Ph.D. candidate in History
Rice University
"American Clergy and the Problem of Slavery, 1750-1830: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion to Politics"
2011
Susan Brandt
Ph.D. candidate in History
Temple University
"Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830"
Aaron Jerviss
Ph.D. candidate in History
University of Tennessee, "Knoxville
Testimony through Sufferings: The Civil War in Pacifist Memory, 1865-1914"
Matthew Reilly
Ph.D. candidate in English
University of Texas
"The Literary Life of May Drummond, Female Preacher"
2010
Katharine Gerbner
Ph.D. candidate in History of American Civilization
Harvard University
"Christian Slavery: A Protestant Dilemma"
Hayley Rose Glaholt
Ph.D. candidate in Religion, Ethics, and Public Life
Northwestern University
"'Reversing the Chivalry of Christ': Quaker Women Challenge the 'Species Line' of Pacifist Ethics"
Bethany Wiggin
Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature
University of Pennsylvania
"'To discourage a Trade, by which many Thousands are Yearly captivated': Anthony Benezet, Christoph Saur (Father and Son), and the Transcultural Origins of Abolitionism"