Mitch Fraas is the Bollinger Fellow for Library Innovation at the University of
Pennsylvania Libraries. At Penn, Mitch works on a variety of projects cutting across
general and special collections, with a special focus on digital humanities. He holds
doctoral and masters degrees in history from Duke University and earned his
bachelor's degree at Boston College. His doctoral dissertation examined the legal
culture of British India in the 17th and 18th centuries, arguing for the existence of a
unified early modern British imperial legal culture whether in Philadelphia, Bombay, or
London. He has been a fellow of the Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the
University of Wisconsin. In addition to the history of law and imperialism, he takes an
active interest in cartography, the history of printing and the book, the digital
humanities, as well as the future of scholarly publishing and copyright.

Articles

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Primary Sources at a Distance: Researching Indian Colonial Law, CRL FOCUS (2012)
 

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The Royal College of Physicians Survey of Savannah, 1829, Georgia Historical Quarterly (2012)

This article presents the annotated text of an 1829 survey of the state of medicine...

 

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Local History from 8000 Miles Away: Early Colac Court Records in the United States, Provenance (2011)

This article examines a volume of Colac court records from the mid-nineteenth century now held...

 

Unpublished Papers

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"They Have Travailed Into a Wrong Latitude:" The Laws of England, Indian Settlements, and the British Imperial Constitution 1726-1773, PhD Dissertation, Duke University, Department of History (2012)

In the mid-eighteenth century the British Crown claimed a network of territories around the globe...

 

Other

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Legal Databases: A Comparative Analysis (2012)

A comparative report commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) on the world of...

 

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Review of "HeinOnline" (2012)

A detailed review of the HeinOnline electronic database commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries...

 

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Review of "LLMC-Digital" (2012)

A detailed review of the LLMC-Digital electronic database commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries...

 

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Unique at Penn (2012)

Blog highlighting unique items from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

 

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Anglo-Indian Legal History (2011)

Online resource for those interested in the legal history of British India. This site includes...