The Hannah Mather Crocker Society
Promoting scholarship and public understanding concerning the life, writing, and legacies of Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829)
Officers
Elected by and from within the Board of Directors according to the bylaws of the Corporation.
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.
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).
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.
