Amanda Bowie Moniz
Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow
Office: 370 Temple 406
Phone: (203) 432-4477
Email: amanda.moniz@yale.edu
Amanda Moniz received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2008. Her work examines the expansion of humanitarian activity in the Anglophone Atlantic world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In particular, she is interested in
the rise of philanthropy directed to strangers (of various sorts) and the
exchange of ideas among activists around the Atlantic. Her dissertation, “‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815,” focused on medical philanthropy, especially the humane society movement for the rescue and resuscitation of drowning victims and the smallpox vaccination movement. At Yale, she is broadening her study by exploring the connections between the resuscitation movement and antislavery, the rise of evangelical religion at the end of the eighteenth century and its effect on cosmopolitanism in philanthropy, and the impact of consumer mentalities on charitable enterprises. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program on the Early American Economy and Society and from the Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector.
Before beginning graduate school, Dr. Moniz worked as a pastry chef in New York City and Washington, DC.
