Professor John Oldfield awarded Barra International Fellowship
The Barra International Fellowship will support a month's research in the United States focusing on the relations between abolitionists in Philadelphia, London and Paris.
Professor John Oldfield
has been awarded the Barra International Fellowship (worth 3,500 dollars) to support a month's research in residence in the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania offers two of these fellowships each year for international scholars. The Barra Fellowship is supported by an endowment created by the Barra Foundation of Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, to foster international study of early American history.
John is working on a book-length project on
'Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution, c 1776-1833'. The principal focus of this study will be the relations between abolitionists in Philadelphia, London and Paris in terms of networks and circuits of knowledge.
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