Symposium: New Insights on Isaiah Thomas

Joseph Adelman is associate professor of history at Framingham State University and assistant editor for digital initiatives at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. He has written several articles on printers during the Revolution, and his book, Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing, 1763–1789, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019. Adelman was elected to American Antiquarian Society membership in October 2019. He was a Stephen Botein Fellow in 2007-08 and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 2001-12. He was elected to AAS in October 2019.

Ashley Cataldo is curator of manuscripts at AAS. She is responsible for selecting, cataloging, and making accessible the Society's collection of diaries, correspondence, and other papers. Ashley holds an MA in English from Clark University and has pursued graduate work toward a PhD in history also at Clark University. Ashley has published articles on early American bookbinding, presented on seventeenth-century manuscript culture, and is interested in the intersection of information studies and the environmental humanities.

Jennifer Chuong is assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She was a Drawn to Art fellow in 2016-17.

John is the director of scholarly programs and partnerships. He oversees the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture (PHBAC) and the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) and is responsible for building relationships between AAS, scholars, organizations, and institutions. He served as president of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and is on the editorial board of Commonplace: the journal of early American life. His research has been supported by fellowships from AAS, Library Company of Philadelphia, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the New York Public Library, and the Ford Foundation. He has published essays on a variety of topics related to the history of the book and early American literature.

James N. Green is Librarian Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia. His three long essays on printing and book publishing in America from 1680 to 1840 appear in the first two volumes of the collaborative History of the Book in America, published by the American Antiquarian Society (2000-2010) under the general editorship of David D. Hall. He is also co-author, with Peter Stallybrass, of Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer (Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2006). He serves on the board of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and teaches courses there in the summer.

Christen Mucher is associate professor of American Studies at Smith College. In addition to her co-translation of Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution she also co-edited the volume Decolonizing 'Prehistory': Indigenous Knowledges and Deep Time in North America. In 2015, Mucher held an AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, where she pursued research for her first monograph Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession, which is available Open Access as part of the Mellon-funded Sustainable History Monograph Pilot initiative. She was elected to AAS in October 2023.

Grant Stanton is assistant professor of  History and Africana Studies at Drew University. He was a  Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow in 2023-24.