Jane Calvert

Short Biography

Jane E. Calvert received her B.A. in English and German from Earlham College in 1993 and her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2003. From 2002 until the present she has been assistant professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. In the fall of 2007 she will begin as assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She has accepted research grants and fellowships from the Newberry Library, the American Philosophical Society, Haverford College, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her monograph, Quaker Constitutionalism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience (under contract with Cambridge University Press), is the first of a trilogy of works on John Dickinson. The second is The Political Writings of John Dickinson, the first modern scholarly edition of his complete political writings; and the third is Passions and Restraint: The Life of John Dickinson. Professor Calvert's work is published in or forthcoming with History of Political Thought, Sacred History, Quaker Religious Thought, Annali di Storia dell’ Esegesi, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.