hosted by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania
October 3-4, 2003
Questions regarding the conference should be directed to Martha Schoolman
Questions regarding the conference should be directed to Martha Schoolman
Carl Keyes
History, Johns Hopkins University
“The Development of Advertising in Eighteenth-Century America”
Kristina Lucenko
English, SUNY-Buffalo
“Marginality that Matters: Seventeenth-Century Women Writing
Early Crime Narratives”
Kyle Roberts
History, University of Pennsylvania
“The Roots and Routes of an Evangelical Text”
Cyrus Mulready
English, University of Pennsylvnaia
“Images of New Worlds and the British Past in A Briefe and True Report
of the New Found Land of Virginia”
Heidi Oberholtzer
English, University of Notre Dame
“Putting Down Roots in The Backwoods of Canada: The Importance of Taste
and Food to Emigrant Catharine Parr Traill”
Andrew Newman
English, University of California, Irvine
“The Cultural Significance of Wallam Olum”
Matthew Clavin
History, American University
“My narrative, if it cannot delight, may at least instruct.”
Narrative Accounts of the Haitian Revolution in the New Republic and the
Atlantic World”
Charles Foy
History, Rutgers University
“Seeking Freedom in the Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century:
How New York’s Slaves Utilized the Sea and Conflicts Between Slave Masters
and Ship Captains to Find Freedom”
Angela Murphy
History, University of Houston
“We Are Irishmen and American Citizens:” The Rise and Fall of the American
Associations for the Repeal of the Legislative Union between Ireland and
Great Britain”
Sarah Rivett
English, University of Chicago
“Experimental Conversion: Science and Religion in John Eliot’s
Mission to the Indians”
Christopher Rogers
History, Northwestern University
“The Shakers in New England Towns: The Limits of Revolutionary Toleration”
Michelle Henley
History, Girton College, Cambridge
“Masculinity in the Salzburger Community of Colonial Ebenezer, Georgia”
Alison Tracy
English, University of Washington
“ ‘A Mixed Habit’: The Transatlantic Imagination and The Female American”
Stacy Van Beek
English, University of California, Irvine
"From Old World Courts to American Parlors: Fictions of Gender,
Decorum, and Class in Early Republican Philadelphia."
Len von Morzé
English, University of California, Berkeley
“Mobile Identifications: The Irish-American Servant in the Early Republic”
Richard Demirjian, Jr.
History, University of Delaware
“A Detremental Business”: Development, Subsistence, and Oysters in
New Haven, 1799-1829”
Carter Hudgins
History, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Old World Industries and New World Hope: An Examination of the
Industrial ‘Roots’ and Metallurgical ‘Routes’ of Scrap Copper in Early
Jamestown”
Andrea Smalley
History, Northern Illinois University
“ ‘The Liberty of Killing a Deer’: English Game Law in American Environments”
Keith Beutler
History, Washington University in St. Louis
“International Routes into American Roots: Transformations in Trans-Atlantic
Memory Culture and Changing Practices of Patriotic Memorists in the Early
United States, 1790-1840”
Martha Robinson
History, University of Southern California
“New Worlds, New Medicines: American Remedies in European Context”
Steven Thomas
English, Penn State University
“Doctoring Ideology: Sugar, Slaves, and Sailors in the Atlantic World”