Program Faculty
Daniel K. Richter is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His research and teaching focus on colonial America and Native Americans before 1800. His second book, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard, 2001) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002. For more information visit: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/richter.shtml.
Daniel K. Richter earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League on the Era of European Colonization (University of North Carolina, 1992) and Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard, 2001). He is co-editor, with James H. Merrell, of Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800 (1987) and, with William A. Pencak, of Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (2004).
Richard R. Beeman is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a historian of the American Revolutionary Era, and has written seven books and several dozen articles on aspects of America's political and constitutional history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His recent book, Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Random House, 2009) won the George Washington Book Prize and the Literary Award of the Philadelphia Athenaeum. Just last year he published The Penguin Guide to the United States (2010). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center and Chair of the Constitution Center's Committee on Programs, Exhibits, and Education. For more information visit: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/beeman.shtml
Richard R. Beeman has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Huntington Library. He was a Fulbright Professor in the United Kingdom and the Vyvian Harmsworth Distinguished Professor of American History at Oxford University. He received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago.
C. Dallett Hemphill is Professor of History at Ursinus College. She is currently completing a study of sibling relations in early America and her research and teaching focus on women’s history, family history, and the history of Philadelphia. For more information visit: http://www.ursinus.edu/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=3077
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C. Dallett Hemphill earned her Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is the author of Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America (Oxford, 2004) as well as several articles in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly and Journal of Social History.
Tamara Gaskell is director of publications and editor of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania Legacies. She has also served as assistant editor of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers project, a documentary editing project based at Rutgers University, and worked as a reference librarian and as editor of the publications of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis. For more information visit: http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=603#Tamara%20Gaskell
Tamara Gaskell received a B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University, with concentrations in early American history, social history, and women’s history. Her dissertation, “‘Seeking to Strengthen the Ties of Friendship’: Women and Community in Southeastern Ohio, 1788–1850,” examines the role of women in the building of community on the trans-Appalachian frontier.
