[2] Dunn later became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow[3] and served as co-executive officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2002 to 2007.
[5][6] Dunn's scholarship was focused primarily on William Penn, Pennsylvania, and the history of English-speaking colonies in the Mid-Atlantic region of what, following the American Revolutionary War, became the United States.
[7] In 1960, she married Richard Slator Dunn, a scholar of American colonial history at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
She and her husband were in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 in Tahrir Square “It was surreal,” describes Dunn “We could see it all.
We are glad to be at home, but are feeling the greatest sympathy for the Egyptians, and maybe a little optimistic about their chances for a better regime and a reduction in the misery so many of them experience every day.