Authors Archive - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Carolyn T. Adams

Joshua Lisowski — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:03:49 +0000

Carolyn T. Adams is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.

Michael Adelberg

Lucy Davis — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:16:33 +0000

Michael Adelberg has been researching the American Revolution in New Jersey for twenty-five years. He is author of “ ‘Long in the Hand and Altogether Fruitless’: The Pennsylvania Salt Works and Salt-Making on the New Jersey Shore during the American Revolution” in Pennsylvania History, and articles published in The Journal of Military History and The Journal of the Early Republic.

Fallon Samuels Aidoo

Vincent Cammarota — Tue, 16 May 2017 17:20:30 +0000

Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Ph.D., a transportation and land use planning practitioner, scholar, and educator, advises designers, managers, and sustainers of transportation services and spaces–from streets and shuttles to terminals and trails. She is co-author of the Newark River Access Guide (2013), a resource for reinvestment in transportation to and along the Newark, New Jersey, riverfront right-of-way, and co-editor of Spatializing Politics: Essays on Politics and Place (Harvard University Press / Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2016), analyses of architecture and urbanism that shed light on contemporary political conflicts and consensus.

Guy Aiken

Luke Hoheisel — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:50:42 +0000

Guy Aiken holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (American Religions) from the University of Virginia and is a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University. He has published several articles, including “The American Friends Service Committee’s Mission to the Gestapo” in Peace & Change, and “Educating Tocqueville: Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America” in the Tocqueville Review.

Brian Albright

Arthur Murphy — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:11:17 +0000

Brian Albright is a graduate of Rutgers University-Camden and Senior Historian at AECOM in Burlington, New Jersey. His interests include the industrial, labor, and social history of Philadelphia in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and the environmental history of the mid-Atlantic region.

Francesca Russello Ammon

Melissa Callahan — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:52:38 +0000

Francesca Russello Ammon is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history and culture of the built environment. She is the author of Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape (Yale University Press, 2016).

David Amott

Joshua Lisowski — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:05:55 +0000

David Amott earned his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware in art and architectural history. While working on these degrees, he researched several immigrant churches in North Philadelphia for the Historic American Building Survey. This experience allowed him the opportunity to become familiar with and to fall in love with North Philadelphia and its rich history.

Daniel Amsterdam

Mikaela Maria — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:56:57 +0000

Daniel Amsterdam is Assistant Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Annie Anderson

Scott Hearn — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:31:07 +0000

Annie Anderson is the manager of research and public programming at Eastern State Penitentiary and the coauthor, with John Binder, of Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s (Arcadia Publishing, 2014). She received her M.A. in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Zara Anishanslin

Lucy Davis — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 19:04:04 +0000

Zara Anishanslin is Assistant Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware and the author of Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016). Erica Lome served as research assistant for this essay.