Research in Progress

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Research in Progress Mary Ellen Chijioke We know that the George Fox tri-centennial is past when we get a sixmonth periodwith noreports ofnewprojects in seventeenth-century Quaker history. Currentresearch is also dominated by social, not religious, history. Eighteenth-century England is represented by Christina M. Devlin (575 South Bengstorff Avenue, #97, Mountain View, CA 94040), who is studying eighteenth-century Quaker printers in London and Philadelphia, especially Tace Sowie Raylton and the Bradfords. Herresearch is related to her Ph.D. dissertation in the History of Christianity for the University of Chicago Divinity School. Women's Studies continues to draw veryheavily upon Quakertopics and resources. Alice Eichholz (Box 766, Montpelier, VT 05602), on the faculty of Vermont College of Norwich University, is examining Long Island Quaker families for a study of six generations ofwomen's experience. Rita M. Broyles (640 Okmalgee Street, Norman, OK73071) has a grantfrom the New Jersey Historical Commission for her masters thesis on the women of Monmouth County, New Jersey during the Revolutionary era; she is making particularuse ofthe materials related to Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting. Jean H. Baker (8717 McDonogh Road, Baltimore, MD 21 208), afaculty member in the History Department of Goucher College, is preparing a book on suffragists, including many Quaker women. Several current projects relate to Lucretia Mott. Elizabeth A. Roslewicz (3428 Lakeside View Drive, Falls Church, VA 22041) is doing her dissertation in Adult Education on Mott and Quaker alternatives to dominant social and ethical thought in the public domain. Irene P. Baros-Johnson (1055 Lucknow Street, #506, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2T3) is continuing her interest in Mott, currently studying her rug-making. These scholars and others will be pleased to know that Beverly Wilson Palmer of the Department of History, Pomona College (Claremont, CA 9171 1) has received funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission towards producing a one-volume edition ofMott's letters. The project has also been designated as host for an historical editing fellowship. While Mott may be getting special attention, many scholars are working on other individual Quaker women or women with Quaker ties. Andrea Constantine Hawkes (205 Rockland Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801) is writing her dissertation in History for the University ofMaine on "The Life 74Quaker History of Elizabeth Wilson McClintoch Phillips (1821-1896): A Story of Family, Community, and a Self-Made Woman." Marian Brubaker (247 North Duke Street, Lancaster, PA 17601) is editing the diaries of Phebe Earle Gibbons, a Friend who taught school in New York City 1 839- 1 845. Sherrie Schulke (310 East Sherman, Newberg, OR 97132) has a George Fox University Faculty Grant for completing her dissertation on Jane Addams and the Society of Friends. Vanessa Northington Gamble, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine (1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706), is writing a biography of Virginia Alexander, physician and Friend active in the Race Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Two researchers are using Quaker sources in the study of abolitionism and African-American history. Kathryn Grover (115 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740), has a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and the Mystic Seaport Museum Cuffe Fellowship for her study of the relationship between New Bedford and Philadelphia Quaker antislavery activists, 1790-1860. Brian Driscoll (131 1 WestGourleyPark, Bloomington, IN 47404) has funding from the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation for his dissertation in Sociology at Indiana University on "Education Reform in the Progressive Era: Northern Efforts to Effect Reform for Southern African-Americans." Several dimensions of Quaker efforts for peace are being examined by scholars. David C. Lawson (722 East Montgomery Street, Sparta, WI 54656) is writing a book on the American peace movement, 1815-1865. Kim Cash (7422 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101) is doing her masters thesis in East Asian Studies on Quakers in occupied Japan, 19451952 . Jacqueline B. Magness (3428 Lakeside View Drive, Falls Church, VA 22041 ) is using Quaker sources for her dissertation in Adult Education on theories of the common good and reconciliation. Other researchers are dealing with a variety of other topics in Quaker social and intellectual history. Christopher Schroeder (5207-1 LeParc Drive, Wilmington, DE 19809) has funding from the Pew...