Lucia McMahon received her Ph.D. in History at Rutgers University. She published, with Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810–1811 (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her new book, Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic will be published by Cornell University Press in fall 2012. She teaches courses in early national U.S. history and women's history. Education: PhD, History--Rutgers University, 2004, MA, History--Rutgers University, 2004, BA, History--Douglass College, 1994. Publications: Mere Equals: The Paradox of Women’s Education in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, forthcoming Fall 2012). “‘So Truly Afflicting and Distressing to Me, His Sorrowing Mother’: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early Republic 32:1 (Spring 2012): 27-60.