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Degree: Ph.D., Pennsylvania University (1976)
Professor Barry Levy has won two Mellon, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and a Warren, and American Council of Learned Societies fellowship. He has been a fellow at Harvard University, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). He is the author of Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley, 1650-1780 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1988) and Town Born: The Political Economy of New England Towns from their Settlement to the Revolution (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009). Levy is currently working on a sequel to his work on the political economy of New England towns, tentatively called "The Problem of Massachusetts in the British and American Empires, 1690-1820.”
Professor Levy retired from the University in May 2018.
Fields of Research
Early American history
Selected Publications
The Problem of Massachusetts in the British and American Empires, 1690-1820 (forthcoming)
Town Born: The Political Economy of New England Towns from their Settlement to the Revolution. Pennsylvania University Press, 2009.
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley, 1650-1780. Oxford University Press, 1988.