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- Jane Merritt
- Associate Professor
- History
- 800 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3949
- jmerritt@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Washington,
1995
- Major: History
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Washington,
1990
- Major: History
- Degree: M.A.
- Vassar College,
1981
- Major: History
- Degree: B.A.
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Books
- Merritt, J. T. (2003). At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
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Book Chapters
- Merritt, J. T. (2009). “Beyond Boston: Prerevolutionary Activism and the Other American Tea Parties,” in Steeped in History: the Art of Tea. (pp. 164-175). Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum at UCLA.
- Merritt, J. T. (2008). “The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of Revolution,” in Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans,
Moravians and Catholics in Early North America. (pp. 165-174). University Park, PA: Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series, Penn State University Press.
- Merritt, J. T. (2006). “Dreaming of the Savior’s Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania,” in American Encounters: Natives
and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850.. New York: Routledge.
- Merritt, J. T. (1998). “Metaphor, Meaning, and Misunderstanding: Language and Power on the Pennsylvania Frontier,” in Contact Points: North American
Frontiers, 1750-1830. (pp. 60-87). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
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Articles
- Merritt, J. T. (2004). Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 128 (2), (pp. 117-148).
- Merritt, J. T. (2004). The Long Peace in Pennsylvania. History Compass, online journal, Blackwell Publishing (September),
- Merritt, J. T. (2003). In Facing East, We Find Ourselves. Pennsylvania History: a Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 70 (4), (pp. 439-444).
- Merritt, J. T. (2000). Cultural Encounters along a Gender Frontier: Mahican, Delaware, and German Women in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania History: a Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 67 (4), (pp. 502-531).
- Merritt, J. T. (1997). Dreaming of the Savior’s Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania. William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 54 (4), (pp. 723-746).
- 2008: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
- 2005: Boston Marine Society Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
- 2002: Program in Early American Economy and Society postdoctoral fellowship , Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- 2002: Old Dominion University Faculty Summer Research Grant., Old Dominion University
- 2001: Philip S. Klein Prize for 1999-2000, The Pennsylvania Historical Society
- 2000: Teaching Across Borders Initiative Grant, Old Dominion University
- 1998: Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- 1996: Old Dominion University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Old Dominion University