Recent Scholarship in Quaker Studies Compiled in November 2019 by Jordan Landes, Curator, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Acosta, Ana M. 2019a. “From Unnatural Fanatics to ‘Fair Quakers’: How English
Mainstream Culture Transformed Women Friends between 1650 and 1740.” Eighteenth-
Century Fiction 31 (4): 705–25.
Acosta, Ana M. 2019b. “Pregnant Silence and Mystical Birth: Quaker Worship in the
Seventeenth Century and the Subversive Practices of Silence.” Restoration: Studies in
English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 43 (1): 51–72.
Aglietti, Jason B. 2018. “The Friends They Loathed: The Persecution of Maryland Quakers
during the Revolutionary War.” M.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Aiken, Guy. 2019. “Feeding Germany: American Quakers in the Weimar Republic.”
Diplomatic History 43 (4): 597–617.
Åklundh, Jens. 2019. “The Church Courts in Restoration England, 1660-c. 1689.” Ph.D.,
University of Cambridge.
This thesis is about English church courts and how they administered discipline. The author writes about how excommunication in particular could be profoundly distressing even for such radical dissenters as the Quakers.
Anstey, Peter R. 2019. “Locke, the Quakers and Enthusiasm.” Intellectual History Review 29
(2): 199–217.
Bingham, Matthew C. 2019. “English Radical Religion and the Invention of the General
Baptists, 1609–1660.” The Seventeenth Century 34 (4): 469–91.
This article includes discussion of Samuel Fisher, a seventeenth-century Baptist who became a Quaker by 1655. Birch, Jonathan C. P. 2019. “Revolutionary Contexts for the Quest Jesus in the Rhetoric and
Methods of Early Modern Intellectual History.” Journal for the Study of the Historical
Jesus 17 (1–2): 35–80.
Birch’s discussion of the historical Jesus in early modern history includes mentions of early Quaker controversies.
Bloodworth, Jeff. 2019. “The Local Is Global: Philadelphia’s Weatherwomen Bring the War
Home to Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 86 (4):
511–36.
This article about the intersection of Pennsylvania revolutionary movements in the
1960s and 1970s, includes discussion of the female members of the Weather
Underground, called ‘’Weatherwomen’. The author looks at the influence of Byn Mawr
and Swarthmore Colleges, as part of what he calls ‘the Quaker Industrial Complex’, on
these women.
Bock, Cherice, Stephen Potthoff, Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser, Mike Heller, Douglas J. Burks,
Jean Mulhern, Cathy Pitzer, Christy Randazzo, and Jon R. Kershner. 2019. Quakers,
Creation Care, and Sustainability: Quakers and the Disciplines: Volume 6. Edited by Paul
Anderson. Full Media Services.
Bottrell, Jenny. 2019. “Alice Paul and the Fight for the Nineteenth Amendment.” Legacy 18
(1).
Brown, Derek. 2019. Lord Willing: The Sermons and Writings of Roger Huffman: Volume I:
Memoirs and Writings. Independently published.
This is the first volume of books that contain the life and ministry of Roger Huffman, a Friends pastor in Indiana and Ohio.
Brownlee, George G., and Edwin Southern. 2014. Fred Sanger - Double Nobel Laureate: A
Biography. 1st edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Two-time Nobel laureate Sanger grew up a Quaker. Burton, Nicholas, and Richard Turnbull, eds. 2019. Quakers, Business and Corporate
Responsibility Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management. Springer.
Butler, August M. 2019. “Making a Home Out of No Home: ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylums in
Virginia, 1867-1930.” Ph.D., The College of William and Mary.
Caballer, Gemma. 2019. “Pour La Renaissance Des Villages Abandonnés: Quaker
Humanitarian Aid in a France at War.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 109.
Cahill, Lisa Sowle. 2019. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding.
Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
Canela, Erica. 2019. “New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650–1800.” Quaker
Studies 24 (1): 161.
Chenoweth, John M. 2019. “Reconstructing a Changing Religious Landscape: The Material
Traces of Barbados Quakers, 1655–1800.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology
23 (2): 462–95.
Crowder, Michael A. 2019. “Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of
Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763-1833.” Ph.D., City University of New York.
In his study of the antislavery movement in New England and the mid-Atlantic, Crowder discusses Quakers Moses Brown and Benjamin Lundy, as well as Thomas Paine, the son of an English Quaker.
Cutter, Susan L., Rutherford H. Platt, Ian Burton, James K. Mitchell, Martin Reuss, Claire B.
Rubin, James L. Wescoat Jr, and Barbara T. Richman. 2019. “Reflections on Gilbert F.
White: Scholar, Advocate, Friend.” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable
Development 61 (5): 4–21.
Dales, Joanna C. 2019a. “‘Creative Worship’: Howard Brinton, John William Graham and
the Quaker Meeting for Worship: A Comparison.” Quaker Studies; 24 (1): 25. Dales, Joanna C. 2019b. “The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter:
A Biography of James Rendel Harris (1852–1941).” Quaker Studies; 24 (1): 166.
Dales, Joanna C. 2019c. “‘Creative Worship’: Howard Brinton, John William Graham and
the Quaker Meeting for Worship: A Comparison.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 25–47.
Dandelion, Pink. 2019. The Creation of Quaker Theory: Insider Perspectives. Routledge.
DiCenzo, Maria. 2019. “Jo Vellacott (1922-2019): An Appreciation.” Women's History Review
28 (4): 529-531.
British-born Vellacot was a Quaker, a pacifist and a historian in Canada.
Drah, Kumah. 2019. “Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House.” Friends Journal, October
1, 2019.
Edgerton, Muriel. 2019. “My Year of Living Eschatologically.” Friends Journal, September 1,
2019.
Ehri, Gabriel. 2019. “Enriching Our Faith.” Friends Journal, October 1, 2019.
Eubanks, Emily Rebecca. 2019. “Managing Modernist Musicians: Quaker Stewardship in
the Work of Blanche Wetherill Walton.” M.M., United States -- Florida: The Florida
State University.
Eustace, Nicole, and Ann M. Little. 2019. “‘Ineradicably Untidy’: Women and Religion in
the Age of Atlantic Empires.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (4):
397–413.
Evans, Owain Gethin. 2019. “‘Our Quaker Dead’: A Forgotten Quaker History.” Quaker
Studies 24 (1): 69.
Fincham, Andy. 2019. “Evaluation of Tithes as a Source of Ecclesiastical and Economic
Information.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 163. Fox, Elizabeth. 2018. “Like Clockwork: The Mechanical Ingenuity and Craftsmanship of
Isaiah Lukens (1779-1846).” M.A., United States -- District of Columbia: The George
Washington University.
Clockmaker Lukens was a Germantown Quaker.
Garcia Ferrandis, Xavier, and Alvar Martinez-Vidal. 2019. “Humanitarian Aid from the
British Quakers During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): The Case of the Children’s
Hospital of Polop De La Marina (alicante).” Asclepio-Revista De Historia De La Medicina
Y De La Ciencia 71 (1): 253.
Gerbner, Katharine. 2019a. Christian Slavery. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gerbner, Katharine. 2019b. “Slavery in the Quaker World: Christian Slavery and White
Supremacy.” Friends Journal, September 1, 2019.
Giri, Ananta Kumar, ed. 2018. Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Transformations
in Religions and Societies. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
Quakerism is included in this book about spiritual movements.
Glassburn, Ashley. 2019. “Settler Standpoints.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76 (3): 399–
406.
Glassburn’s article on settler colonialism includes discussion of the Slocum Family, Quakers in Pennsylvania.
Grace, Eden. 2019. “The Place of God’s Own Choosing.” Friends Journal, October 1, 2019.
Grant, Rhiannon. 2019a. “Faith and Experience in Education: Essays from Quaker
Perspectives.” Journal of Beliefs & Values Studies in Religion & Education 40 (4): 490-503.
Grant, Rhiannon. 2019b. Quaker Quicks - Telling the Truth About God: Quaker Approaches to
Theology. Ridgefield, CT: Christian Alternative. Grossnickle-Batterton, Stephanie Ann. 2019. “‘Ye Shall Know Them by Their Clothes’:
Women and the Rhetoric of Religious Dress in the United States, 1865-1920.” Ph.D.,
United States -- Iowa: The University of Iowa.
Quaker women’s dress is included in this study.
Haggis, Jane, Clare Midgley, Margaret Allen, and Fiona Paisley. 2017. Cosmopolitan Lives on
the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950. 1st
ed. 2017 edition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
The fourth chapter in this book is ‘Provincialized Cosmopolitanisms: A “Quaker Gandhian” and a “Brown Englishman”’.
Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina, and Carol Berkenkotter. 2019. Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive
Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920. University of South Carolina Press.
This book about mental illness identification and patient diagnosis is drawn, in part, from Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections and their records on Friends Hospital.
Hanson, Erik. 2019. “A Quaker School’s Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse.” Friends
Journal, September 1, 2019.
High, Ean C. 2018. “Quakerism, Silence, and the Religious Body in American Literature,
1650-1865.” Ph.D., United States -- Illinois: Northwestern University.
Holmes, B. 2019. “’To Love One’s Enemy’ : British Humanitarian Relief for German Civilians, c.1914-1925.” Ph.D., University of Exeter.
Holt, Helen. 2019. “The Enigma of Humanism in the Transformational Mysticism of Rufus
Jones.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 49.
Huff, Andrew. 2019. “Spiritual Simplicity.” Friends Journal, September 1, 2019.
Huzzey, Richard. 2019. “A Microhistory of British Antislavery Petitioning.” Social Science
History 43 (3): 599–623. Jerome, Ann. 2019. “Selling Out to Niceness.” Friends Journal, September 1, 2019.
Jones, Keith G. 2019. “A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain,
1933–1942.” Baptist Quarterly 50 (2): 69–70.
This article about Bruderhof communities briefly mentions connections to Quakers.
Jones-Branch, Cherisse. 2019. “‘To Raise Standards among the Negroes’: Jeanes Supervising
Industrial Teachers in Rural Jim Crow Arkansas, 1909-1950.” Agricultural History 93 (3):
412–36.
The work of Anna Thomas Jeanes, a Pennsylvania Quaker, is examined in this article.
Kelley, Martin. 2019. “Authentic Friends.” Friends Journal, September 1, 2019.
Kennedy, Maria. 2019. Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
Kershner, Jon R. 2018. To Renew the Covenant: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker
Abolitionism. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
Kershner, Jon R., ed. 2019. Quakers and Mysticism: Comparative and Syncretic Approaches to
Spirituality. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
King, Sallie B. 2019. “The Small Engage the Powerful: An American Buddhist–Liberation
Theology–Quaker Trialogue.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 39 (1): 103–14.
Knowlton, Geoff. 2019. “Spelunking: What My Father Taught Me About the Light.” Friends
Journal, October 21, 2019.
Langford, Michael. 2019. Becoming Fully Human: Writings on Quakers and Christian Thought.
Null edition. S.l.: lulu.com.
Lin, Isaiah Tain-Mu. 2019. “A Program Evaluation and Needs Assessment in the Local
Church: Clarifying the Effectiveness and Outcomes of a Spiritual Growth Program.”
Psy.D., United States -- California: Biola University. This dissertation on spirituality and inclusion focuses on an Evangelical Friends church in Southern California.
Lindman, Janet Moore. 2019. “‘To Have a Gradual Weaning & Be Ready & Wiling to Resign
All’: Maternity, Piety, and Pain among Quaker Women of the Early Mid-Atlantic.”
Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (4): 498–518.
Logan, Mr David Logan Mr. 2018. Corporate Citizenship: The Role of Companies as Citizens of
the Modern World. St Albans, Herts, UK: Panoma Press.
The author of this title participates in the Quakers and Business group in Great Britain.
Makovi, Kinga. 2019. “The Signatures of Social Structure: Petitioning for the Abolition of
the Slave Trade in Manchester.” Social Science History; Durham 43 (3): 625–52.
McGann, Jerome. 2019. “From Cultural Memory to Living Word: On Mather’s Magnalia.”
New Literary History 50 (2): 171–95.
McGann’s article on Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) includes discussion of Quakers in early New England.
Meggitt, Justin J. 2019. “A Turke Turn’d Quaker: Conversion from Islam to Radical Dissent
in Early Modern England.” Seventeenth Century 34 (3): 353–80.
Miller, Jay David. 2019. “‘Friend Thou Art Often in My Remembrance’: A New Letter by
Elizabeth Ashbridge.” Early American Literature 54 (2): 511–27.
Mindham, R. H. S. 2019. “The Glasgow Asylum of 1810 – Psychiatry in Pictures.” The
British Journal of Psychiatry; London 214 (5): 314–314.
The Glasgow Asylum was inspired by the Retreat in York, which was built by Friends.
Moore, Sean D. 2019. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature,
Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. New, Melvyn, and Robert G. Walker. 2019. “Thomas Cumming and William Leechman: An
Early Spat for the ‘Fighting Quaker.’” Scottish Literary Review 11 (1): 3–8.
Ngesa, Stanley Chagala. 2019. “Quaker Christianity in Kenya.” Friends Journal, October 1,
2019.
Ntahuba, Parfaite. 2019. “Empowering Women against Gender-Based Violence.” Friends
Journal, October 1, 2019.
O’Connell, Kaete M. 2019. “Weapon of War, Tool of Peace: U.S. Food Diplomacy in
Postwar Germany.” Ph.D., Temple University.
This dissertation on U.S. food diplomacy in occupied Germany includes the work of
the American Friends Service Committee.
Parks, Jacob. 2018. “The Price of Bondage: Slavery, Slave Valuation, and Economics in the
Albemarle.” M.A., East Carolina University.
This thesis about antebellum slavery in the Albemarle region of North Carolina includes mentions of North Carolina Quakers and their role in enslavement.
Peltola, Jarmo. 2019. “The British Contribution to the Birth of the Finnish Cotton Industry
(1820–1870).” Continuity and Change; Cambridge 34 (1): 63–89.
This article about the Finnish cotton industry includes discussion of James Finlayson and Daniel Wheeler, British Friends who set up mills in nineteenth-century Finland.
Radford, Tim. 2019. “Lovelock at 100: The Gaia Saga.” Nature; London 570 (7762): 441–42.
James Lovelock, who proposed the Gaia Theory, became a Quaker during the Second
World War.
Randazzo, Christy. 2019. “Elise Boulding: Writings on Feminism, the Family, and
Quakerism/Elise Boulding: A Pioneer in Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism,
Future Studies, and the Family. From a Quaker Perspective.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 173. Read, Mark J. 2019. “‘Doing Belief’: British Quakers in the Twenty-First-Century
Workplace.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 141.
Reid, Fiona. 2019. “The Friends Ambulance Unit.” Medicine, Conflict and Survival 35 (2): 140–
43.
Richmond, Stephanie J. 2019. “Race, Class, and Antislavery: African American Women in
the Transatlantic Antislavery Movement.” Journal of Women’s History 31 (3): 57–77.
This article includes discussions of Sarah Mapps Douglass, as well as the Philadelphia
Quaker community.
Ritter, Ann S. 2018. “Spiritual Consciousness and Direct Experiences of the Divine within
the Quaker Lineage.” Ph.D., United States -- California: Fielding Graduate University.
Roberts, Rommel, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth. 2019. “Leadings of the Spirit.” Friends
Journal, October 1, 2019.
Sattar, Adnan. 2018. “The Idea of Punishment in International Human Rights Discourse : A
Conceptual and Historical Critique.” Ph.D., Middlesex University, UK.
This PhD thesis looks at punishment and the role of the state and includes a look at the influence of Quaker theology.
Sensbach, Jon. 2019. “Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery: An Archaeology of Quakerism in
the British Virgin Islands, 1740–1780, by John M. Chenoweth.” NWIG: New West Indian
Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 93 (1/2): 122–23.
Silva, Rene Jose. 2018. “Pennsylvania’s Loyalists and Disaffected in the Age of Revolution:
Defining the Terrain of Reintegration, 1765-1800.” Ph.D., United States -- Florida:
Florida International University.
Smith, Gary Scott. 2015. Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents.
1 edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. This broad look at religion and US presidents includes discussions of Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover.
Stokes, Christopher. 2019. “Poetics at the Religious Margin: Bernard Barton and Quaker
Romanticism.” Review of English Studies 70 (295): 509–26.
Storslee, Mark. 2019. “Religious Accommodation, the Establishment Clause, and Third-
Party Harm.” The University of Chicago Law Review 86 (4): 871–944.
This legal article looks at religion clauses and the First Amendment, with a discussion of how James Madison argued about religious clauses relating to Quakers and Mennonites.
Strachan, Marion. 2019. “Fleeing from Famine in Connemara: James Hack Tuke and His
Assisted Emigration Scheme in the 1880s.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 165.
Suddaby, Roy. 2019. “Spiritual Myths of Consumption: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and
the Consubstantiation of the American Consumer.” Journal of Marketing Management 35
(5–6): 410–26.
This article on consumer trends mentions the Free Produce Movement and Quaker boycotts.
Tittler, Robert. 2019. Two Weather Diaries from Northern England, 1779-1807: The Journals of
John Chipchase and Elihu Robinson. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Surtees Society.
These two weather diaries were kept by Quakers in the north of England.
Walker, Robert G. 2019. “Quakers, Shoemakers, and Thomas Cumming.” Anq-a Quarterly
Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews.
Walsham, Alexandra. 2019. “Nature and Nurture in the Early Quaker Movement: Creating
the Next Generation of Friends.” Studies in Church History 55 (June): 161–76.
Ward, Madeleine. 2018. “Robert Barclay’s Christology.” Quaker Religious Thought, no. 131
(September): 25–32. Ward, Madeleine. 2019. “The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian
Controversy.” Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 2 (1): 1–101.
Waters, Andrew. 2019. The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and
the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South. Casemate.
Wells, Samuel Spencer. 2018. “‘Heathen Men and Publicans’: Excommunicates, Church
Discipline, and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, 1730-1840.” Ph.D., United
States -- Virginia: The College of William and Mary.
Wilkinson, Hazel. 2019. “The Voyage of Richard Castelman (1726): A New Document for
Transatlantic Literary Studies.” Review of English Studies 70 (295): 467–88.
Wilkinson’s article examines the text, The Voyage of Richard Castelman (1726), and holds rediscovered information about Quakers in early Virginia and North Carolina.
Wynter, Rebecca. 2019. “Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics,
Pacifists/Friends in Flanders: Humanitarian Aid Administered by the Friends’
Ambulance Unit During the First World War/China Gadabouts: New Frontiers of
Humanitarian Nursing, 1941–1951.” Quaker Studies 24 (1): 169.
Zarembka, David. 2019. “Life at Lumakanda Friends Church.” Friends Journal, October 1,
2019.