The Hannah Mather Crocker Society
Promoting scholarship and public understanding concerning the life, writing, and legacies of Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829)
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors was formally established by the general membership of the
Society on May 7, 2014 at the first annual meeting of the board. The Board of Directors
was updated on 9 September 2014 by a vote of the board at its quarterly meeting.
Eileen Hunt Botting
Eileen Hunt Botting is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Together with Sarah Houser, she co-edited an award-winning comprehensive scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker’s Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston (NEHGS, 2011). She has published on Crocker’s political thought and especially her theory and practice of women’s rights in American Journal of Political Science (2004), American Political Science Review (with Houser in 2006), Journal of Politics (2012), Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (2013), and Early American Literature (2014), among other scholarly outlets.
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).
Alea Henle
Alea Henle is the Head of Public Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Western New Mexico University. She holds a masters in library science from Simmons and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Connecticut. Her varied career includes working in legal and academic research libraries, and teaching archives and librarianship in library school. Her research on the history of historical societies in the early United States was supported by fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Library Company of Philadelphia, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Massachusetts Historical Society, and New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Her article on Hannah Mather Crocker's use of the Mather family library appeared in Information & Culture (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.
Constance J. Post
Constance Post, Chair of Arts and Humanities for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program at Iowa State University, is the editor of Hannah Mather Crocker’s Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Selected Writings (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). In addition to articles about Crocker and other writers in the early Republic, she is the author of Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather’s Paterna: A Study of Puritan Autobiography (AMS Press, 2000). Prof. Post serves as senior editor for arts, literature, and culture of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
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.
