The Hannah Mather Crocker Society
Promoting scholarship and public understanding concerning the life, writing, and legacies of Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829)
Advisory Board Committee
Appointed by the Board of Directors according to the bylaws of the Corporation
Mary Copeland
Mary Copeland holds a BA in History from UCLA (summa cum laude) and a Master of Arts in Humanities with an emphasis in History from Mount St. Mary's University, and is currently working towards her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University. She has published research on Hannah Mather Crocker in The Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternity (2011) and The Bulletin of the Congregational Library and Archives (2013). She has presented on Crocker (and other subjects) at conferences such as the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (2013) and the Society of Early Americanists (2013).
Sarah L. Houser
Sarah L. Houser is a professorial lecturer in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University. She and Eileen Hunt Botting co-edited the first scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker’s Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston (NEHGS 2011) and co-wrote an APSR article on Crocker’s political thought. The Reminiscences was awarded the triennial Best Edition award in 2012 by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Her research and teaching interests include patriotism, cosmopolitanism, and the role of place in political life. She is currently working on an article entitled “The Rock from Whence they Were Hewn: Hannah Mather Crocker and the Politics of Place.” She was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy at Georgetown University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. She has been the recipient of the Willis Family Research Fellowship in Gender Studies and a New Faculty Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Karen Ann Robertson-Kidd
Karen Kidd is an independent scholar who lives in Silverton, Oregon. She has three books in print about the history of women in Freemasonry and worldwide Co-Freemasonry. Kidd’s fourth book, a biography of the two primary founders of Co-Freemasonry in North America, is due out in 2014. Kidd has delivered papers at Masonic and academic gatherings, including the most recent International Conference on the History of Freemasonry in Edinburgh. Her work also has appeared in a number of publications, including Heredom, the Journal of the Scottish Rite Research Society, of which Kidd is a member. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Marshall University and has worked in IT. These days she is a full time writer and researcher.
John Slifko
John Slifko holds a BA from San Francisco State in Geography, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and was awarded the Cotton-Beland Fellowship for Distinguished Work in Environmental Planning. He is currently finishing his Ph. D. at UCLA Geography. John’s varied career has included environmental planning for the Los Angeles City Council, and environmental technology issues for the United States Congress. John was listed in the Who’s Who Congressional Staff Directory for the United States Congress. He is Co-Director of the Roosevelt Center for the Study of Freemasonry and Civil Society. His research interests concern civil society, gender studies, John Dewey, and the politics of place. He has published the entry “Hannah Mather Crocker,” in Le Monde Maçonnique de Lumières, Europe, Amérique, colonies: Dictioinnaire prosopographique (2014). Publié sous la direction de Charles Porset et Cécile Révauger. Edition HONORE Champion, Paris, Volume I, pp. 908-916.
