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Ann Kirschner recently earned a doctorate in the history of American Civilization at the University of Delaware and currently is an instructor at Rowan University. Her dissertation, which was awarded the Wilbur Owen Sypherd prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Humanities at the University of Delaware, focused on the significance of dreams and visions in the religious lives of American evangelical Protestants during the early republic. A chapter of her dissertation was published in 2003 in Early American Studies, the journal of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Ann was a fellow at the Center in 2000-2001 and has also held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Pew Foundation, and the University of Delaware. She has also published her work on early Shaker dreams and visions in Heavenly Visions: Shaker Drawings and Gift Songs (2001), which accompanied an exhibition on Shaker gift drawings at the Drawing Center in New York and the UCLA Hammer Museum. She graduated from the Winterthur Program in 1995; her thesis on the architecture of the Ephrata Cloister can be found in Winterthur Portfolio 32:1 (1997). Prior to returning to graduate school, Ann was a vice president of commercial lending for PNC Bank in Philadelphia. |