Jennifer (Jenny) Merriman

Ph.D. Student (ABD)

advisor: Nicholas Popper
Email: [[jamerriman]]
Current Research: Germany, Atlantic World, Book History

Bio

Jennifer Merriman is a Ph.D. Candidate whose work brings together book history, the Atlantic world, and the Enlightenment. Focusing on the entangled histories of colonial North America and early modern Germany as represented by the Pennsylvania printer Johann Christoph Saur (1695-1758), her dissertation aims to reconstruct the pathways of news and information that circulated between diverse German-speaking communities in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. These networks—forged through circulated manuscripts as well as the artisanal production of books and newspapers—not only transgressed imperial borders, but also impacted the intellectual, political, and cameralist landscapes of the Holy Roman Empire.

Her work has been supported by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., the Society for German American Studies, and the German Society of Pennsylvania.