Mary McKinney Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
3355 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531
Email address:marymsch(at)comcast.net
Phone: (215) 898-9251
Education:
Ph.D. in History, 1984, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
M.A. in History, 1980, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
M.A. in History, 1977, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
B.A. in History, 1975, Duke University, N.C.Training in Graduate Economics:
University of Maryland Ph.D. Program, 1977-78
Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. Program, 1984-85
Professional Experience:
Senior Research Associate, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003-present
Associate Professor, Department of History, Villanova University, PA
1991-present (on disability since January 1995)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Villanova University, PA
1986-1991
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame,
Indiana 1985-86
Instructor, American Economic History and Principles of Economics,
Department of Economics, University of Delaware, 1981-1982.
Instructor, Summer Seminar in Quantitative Methods for Historians,
Department of History, Johns Hopkins University 1980
Instructor, Principles of Economics,
Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 1977-78
Awards and Fellowships:
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Villanova University 1987, 1989,
and 1992
Nevins Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in American Economic
History, presented by the Economic History Association 1984
Research Fellow, Transformation of Philadelphia Project, Philadelphia
Center for Early American Studies, 1983-84
Mellon Dissertation Fellow, Philadelphia Center for Early American
Studies, 1982-83
Regional Economic History Research Center Fellow, Eleutherian Mills-
Hagley Foundation, Wilmington, DE, 1981-82
Dissertation Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1980-81
Butler Prize in History for best paper by a first-year graduate student,
Johns Hopkins University, 1980
Publications:
Custom and Contract: Household, Government, and the Economy in Colonial
Pennsylvania (NY: Columbia University Press, 1987)
The Metaphor of the Factory in the Concept of "Capitalism,"
and other essays on economic interpretation, manuscript in process.
"Slightly Alive": Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, the disease hidden
inside Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, unpublished manuscript"The Ratification Paradox in the Great Valley of the Appalachians," in
Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation:
The American Revolution and the Atlantic World
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
"The Economic and Demographic Consequences of the American Revolution," in
Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
(Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
"The Spatial Organization of Federalist Philadelphia, 1790,"
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Summer 1993).
"Philadelphia," in Martyn Bowden, ed., The Colonial Replica City (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press: forthcoming), with Peter Rees.
"Paper Money in the British North American Colonies," Peter Newman et al,
eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (New York:
Stockton Press, 1992).
"Philadelphia's Hinterland: 1750-1800," in Kate Hutchins, ed., Shaping a
National Culture: The Philadelphia Experience, 1750-1800
(NY: W.W. Norton, 1993).
"The Age of Revolution, 1760-1790," in Francis Brenner and Dennis Downey,
eds., Guide to the History of Pennsylvania (Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press,1994).
"The Contributions of the State of Pennsylvania to the Writing and the Ratification
of the U.S. Constitution," Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the
State Courts, Conference of Chief Justices (Williamsburg, Va: National
Center for 1991), with Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Chief Justice of the State of
Pennsylvania.
"The Ratification of the Constitution and the Transition to a Private Banking System
in the United States," Journal of Economic History (June 1989):311-322.
"A New Look at Economic Causes of the Constitution: Monetary and Trade Policy in
Maryland and Pennsylvania," The Social Science Journal (1989):15-26.
"Pennsylvania's Contributions to the Writing and the Ratification of the Constitution,"
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1988):3-24,
with Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania.
"'The Inconveniency attending Governments that are distinct, and Independent': The
Mid-Atlantic Economy and the Movement for a National Constitution,"
The Potomac: Headwaters of the Constitution, proceedings of a conference
held at Mt. Vernon, VA, November 1986.
"Economic Regulation and the Colonial Economy: The Maryland Tobacco Inspection
Act of 1747," The Journal of Economic History (September 1980): 551-570.
"World War II and Female Labor Force Participation Rates," The Journal of
Economic History (March 1980): 89-95.
Book Reviews:
I have reviewed books for the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Pennsylvania History, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Journal of Southern History, Gender and Society, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and the Journal of Economic History.
Professional Participation:
Editorial Board, Pennsylvania History, 1988 to 2002.
Chair, Committee to Award the Jonathan Hughes Prize in the Teaching
of Economic History, Economic History Association, 1994-1995.
Reviewed manuscripts for the following: Temple University Press,
Harlan Davidson Press, William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of
of Economic History, Pennsylvania History, the Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography, and the Journal of Historical Geography.
"The Economics of Women and Households in Historical Perspective,"
paper presented at the annual meetings of the International
Association For Feminist Economics, June 1996.
"Quantitative and Literary Methodology as Allies in the Study of
History," paper presented at the annual meetings of the Social
Science Historical Association, Chicago, November 1995.
"Masculinist Ways of Knowing in the "Rhetoric" of Donald McCloskey,"
paper presented at the annual meetings of the Social Science
Historical Association, Chicago, November 1995.
Chair, session on The History of Women in Business, annual meetings of
the Social Science Historical Association, Chicago, November 1995.
Invited Participant, Colloquium on Early American Economic Growth,
co-sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Biography
and the Huntingdon Library, Pasadena, CA, October 1995.
Chair, session on Independent Female Heads of Households in Rural
Virginia, annual meetings of the Society for the History of the Early
American Republic, Cincinnati, OH, July 1995.
"Reinventing Classical Economics: Economic Revisionism and Early
Labor Historiography," paper presented at the Institute for the Study
of Economic Institutions, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri,
October 1994.
Chair, session on Teaching Methodology in Economic History, annual
meetings of the Economic History Association, Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 1994.
"The Socioeconomic Structure of Backcountry Pennsylvania," invited
talk at the Conference on the Bicentennial of the Whiskey Rebellion,
for teachers in secondary schools, sponsored by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA,
June 1994.
Chair, session on the Economy of the Pennsylvania Frontier, conference
on the Bicentennial of the Whiskey Rebellion, California, PA.
Chair, session on Comparing the Basis of Economic Development in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the Early National Period, the
Business History Conference, Williamsburg, VA, March 1994.
Chair, session on Revisiting the New Economic History, annual meetings
of the Economic History Association, Tucson, AZ, September 1993.
"The Federal Census of 1790, the City Directory of 1791, and the
Manuscript Tax Assessments of 1789: the City of Philadelphia and
its Suburbs, paper presented at a Conference on the Uses of Census
Records for Historical Research," Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 1993.
"Political Culture and Socioeconomic Structure in the Ratification of
the Constitution: the Backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia," paper presented at the Washington Area Seminar
in Early American History, University of Maryland, February 1993.
"Breaking through the Barriers of Academic Disciplines: A Historical
Analysis of the Rift between Historians and Economists," paper
presented at the Seminar of the Shelby Cullam Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University, February 1993.
"The Economic Policies of the States and the Political Economy of
the New Nation: The Roots of the Debate in Pennsylvania," presented
at the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Villanova, PA, October 1992.
"The U.S. Constitution as Economic Unification," paper presented at
the Bay Area Economic History Seminar, jointly sponsored by Stanford
University and the University of California at Berkeley, California,
October 1992.
"Rent and Density Gradients in Philadelphia, 1790," paper presented
at the Berkeley Economic History Seminar, University of California at
Berkeley, October 1992.
"Household Production and Economic Growth in Eighteenth Century
Pennsylvania," paper presented at the annual meetings of the Economic
History Association, Boston, September 1992.
Chair and discussant, session on Banking and Finance in the Early
American Republic, annual meetings of the Society for the History of
the Early American Republic, Gettysburg, PA, June 1992.
"The Myth of the Profit-Seeking Individual," presentation at the
Seminar of the Transformation of Philadelphia Project, University of
Pennsylvania, December 1991.
Chair and discussant at a session of the joint American and Canadian
Business History Conference in Toronto, Canada, March 1991.
"The Backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia: Elements of Political Economy," paper presented at the
seminar of the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies,
Philadelphia, October 1990.
"The Spatial Organization of Federalist Philadelphia, 1790," Lecture
given to the Delaware Seminar in American History, Art History, and
Material Culture, University of Delaware, April 1990.
"Paper Money in the American Colonies," RittenhouseTown Lecture in
Honor of the 300th Anniversary of the Establishment of Papermaking in
America, Philadelphia, February 1990.
"Wage Labor and Community in Colonial Pennsylvania," paper presented
at the annual meetings of the Organization of American Historians,
St. Louis, April 1989.
Keynote address, Women's History Conference, Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, April 1989.
Chair, session on Sources of Capital and Technological Change in
the Nineteenth Century Fishing Industries, annual meetings of the
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, 1988.
"The Ratification Paradox in the Philadelphia Hinterland," paper
presented at the 1988 Northern Virginia Studies Conference on the
Ratification of the Constitution, Gunston Hall, Virginia, November
1988.
"Neighborhood Development in Philadelphia, 1790," paper presented at
the annual meetings of the Eastern Historical Geography Association,
Williamsburg, November 1988.
"The Transition to Private Banking and the Movement for a National
Constitution, paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Historical Association, Detroit, September 1988.
"The Contributions of the State of Pennsylvania to the Writing and
Ratification of the U.S. Constitution," with Robert N.C. Nix, Jr.,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, paper presented
at the annual meetings of the Conference of Chief Justices,
Williamsburg, VA, January 1988.
"Interstate Economic Rivalries and the Movement for a National
Constitution," paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Historical Association," Washington, DC, December 1987.
"Philadelphia's Hinterland, 1750-1790," paper presented at a
conference on the Material Culture of Revolutionary Philadelphia,
Winterthur Museum, Greenville, DE, October 1987.
"'The Inconveniency attending Governments that are distinct, and
independent': The Mid-Atlantic Economy and the Movement for a
National Constitution,'" paper presented at a conference on The
Potomac: Headwaters of the Constitution," held at Mt. Vernon,
Virginia, November 1986.
"The Unification of the American Economy and the Movement for a
National Constitution," paper presented at a conference titled "'Unis
et Multis': Maryland and the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution,"
Chestertown, Maryland, June 1986.
"Occupation, Residence, and Real Estate Values in Philadelphia,
1790," presented at the Seminar of the Philadelphia Center for
Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, October 1984.
"Contracts and Customs," summary of Ph.D. dissertation presented
at the dissertation session of the annual meetings of the Economic
History Association, Chicago, September 1984.
"Flour, Tobacco, and 'Lemons,'" paper presented at the Economic
History Workshop of the University of Pennsylvania, March 1983.
"Capital Formation in a Developing Colonial Economy: The Pennsylvania
Land Bank, 1723-1755," paper presented at the Seminar of the
Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, January 1983.
"Free Trade and Mercantilism in Colonial Pennsylvania," paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Economic History Association,
Baltimore, September 1982.
"World War II and Female Labor Force Participation Rates," paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Economic History Association,
Wilmington, DE, September 1979.
Changes last made on: August 10, 2006