Joseph M. Adelman is a historian of Revolutionary America and the media. He is currently a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, where he is completing a book manuscript on the business of printing and the circulation of political news between 1763 and 1789. As of August 2012, he will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Adelman earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a master’s and Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and served as a Lecturer in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, Adelman has worked as Communications Director to a member of the New York State Assembly and as a consultant for the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. He has held fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the David Library of the American Revolution, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Doris G. Quinn Foundation. He has presented and published broadly, including in the journal Enterprise & Society, on TheAtlantic.com, and as a blogger at Common-place.org. Adelman won the 2011 Rita Lloyd Moroney Junior Prize for Scholarship in Postal History from the U.S. Postal Service for his article, “‘A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private.’”
He writes for the Publick Occurrences 2.0 blog at Common-place. You can find a listing of all of his posts here.
E-mail: jadelman -at- jhu dot edu.
