Bio

Dr. Camille Kaszubowski holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Delaware and is a historian of Colonial and Revolutionary America and its connections to the Atlantic World. Dr. Kaszubowski specializes in the history of the American Revolution, Women’s History, and Pennsylvania history. Dr. Kaszubowski is currently working on a book project titled Left in Distress: Women on their own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Delaware 

M.A., History, University of Delaware

B.A., History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Cook Honors College)

Publications

Forthcoming: “Women in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (July 2026)

Awards

Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia–2022-2023

Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia–2019

David Library of the American Revolution, Dissertation Research Fellowship–2017

Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Short-Term Dissertation Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia–2017

Presentations

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women's History at the Library Company of Philadelphia Women’s History Month Lecture, 2026

“Women in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, York, Pennsylvania, 2025 

 “Women’s Economies,” PEAES at 25: Retrospect and Prospect, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania –2025

“Petitions & Passes: Women & State Authority during the American Revolution,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–2024

“Hannah Lewis’s Petitions: Loyalism and Widowhood in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania–2023

“Left in Distress: Petitioning Women in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Williamsport, Pennsylvania–2022 

“‘Left in Distress’: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Fireside Chats Digital Series, Library Company of Philadelphia–2022  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTslfrxyQPg 

“Petitioning for Mobility: Women, State Authority, and Pennsylvania’s Pass System during the Revolution,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Indiana, Pennsylvania–2019  

“‘Importunate Widow[s]’: Hannah Lewis, Sarah Kennedy, and Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Regional History Colloquium, Lancaster Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania–2018

“‘Left in Distress’: Women Alone in Revolutionary Philadelphia,” Brown Bag Works in Progress Presentation, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–2015 

“‘Not a Poor, but a Very Importunate Widow’: Sarah Kennedy and the American Revolution at Yellow Springs, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–2014  

"Widows and War: Gender, Property, and Relief in Revolutionary Southeastern Pennsylvania,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–2014

“Widows, War, and the American Revolution in Chester County History” “Passing Time” interview with Rob Lukens, WCHE 1520 a.m.–2014 

Organizations

Pennsylvania Historical Association, Councilmember 

McNeil Center for Early American Studies 

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic