John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study

Joseph M. Adelman, a Brown 2026 Visiting Fellow, is Professor of History Department at Framingham State University, where he is also the Program Coordinator for the Arts & Ideas Series. A historian of media, communication, and politics in the Atlantic world, in 2019 he published his first book, entitled Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 with Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Adelman also currently serves as an Associate Editor with The New England Quarterly, and is a producer and co-host of the award-winning Ben Franklin’s World podcast. He was previously a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and served as a Lecturer in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Adelman has held fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, among others. He has presented and published broadly, including in the journals Enterprise & Society and Early American Studies, TheAtlantic.com, the Washington Post, and as a blogger at the Junto. Adelman is an elected Member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.