Arthur Mitchell Fraas is the Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his doctorate in history from Duke University in 2011 with a dissertation entitled ‘“They have travailed into a wrong latitude”: the laws of England, Indian settlements, and the British imperial constitution 1726-1773’. During 2009-10 Fraas held a fellowship as reference intern in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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