I have recently begun a long-term study of petitioning in North American and Atlantic history. In recent years my archival and data-collection efforts have been focused upon petitions in nineteenth-century North America, colonial Massachusetts, colonial New France, and early modern France and England.
Papers in Progress
"Recruitment by Petition: Evidence from American Abolitionism and Early Modern Europe."
"The Petition as a Tool of Recruitment: Evidence from the Abolitionists' Congressional Campaign."
Acknowledgement
For support of this project, I gratefully acknowledge a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, a residential fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Academic Ventures Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institutional Development Initiative in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
