Clayton McCarl, President 2026-2027
Clayton McCarl is professor of Latin American studies and digital humanities at the University of North Florida (UNF). His research focuses on the colonial period in Latin America and the digital transmission of archival materials from Spanish Florida, the New Kingdom of Granada, and the Early Modern maritime world. In recent years, much of his scholarship has considered the opportunities that editing in a digital format creates for thinking about written culture, constructing communities, and creating pedagogical experiences. He leads several ongoing editing projects that involve students, including coloniaLab and Editing the Eartha M.M. White Collection. McCarl is the co-founder and current leader of the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America, a founding member of the organizing committee of the annual Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium, and the interim director of UNF’s Digital Humanities Institute.
Michael David Cohen, President-Elect
Michael David Cohen is editor and director of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. He holds appointments as a research professor in the Department of Government and as a faculty fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. Previously he was editor of the James K. Polk Project (University of Tennessee) and NHPRC postdoctoral fellow at the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Rutgers University). Besides these print and digital editions, he edited James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project and authored Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. An ADE councilor-at-large in 2017–20, he has chaired the Communications, Butterfield Award, Local Arrangements, and (currently) Semiquincentennial Committees. In 2024 he received the Boydston Essay Prize. He earned a PhD in history at Harvard University and attended the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
Kathryn Tomasek, Past President
Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she has been teaching since 1992. She has published articles about women and family in Fourierism, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, L. Maria Child’s “Mary Howard” and “transactionography” as a model for XML/TEI editions of account books. Tomasek has been Primary Investigator on a Start-Up grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (2011), a Bilateral Digital Humanities grant from the NEH and the German Research Foundation (2015), and a planning grant under a joint initiative of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018). The implementation grant for the latter went to the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia and to the Center for Information Modelling, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, at the University of Graz.
With Noelle A. Baker, Tomasek was Co-Editor in Chief of the revived Scholarly Editing from 2019 to 2024. Tomasek continues to work on models for digital editions of account books, with particular focus on building a taxonomy for goods and services. As her research continues, she will focus on a pilot project in which she will use the tool Transkribus to scan and markup manuscript account books for digital editions.
Rachel Love Monroy, Secretary, 2026-2027
Rachel Love Monroy is a documentary editor with fifteen years of experience on various editorial projects. A member of the 2011 Camp Edit class, she has worked on several editorial projects including the Mary Baker Eddy Papers, the Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, and the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. Rachel earned her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and her scholarship has been funded by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. She is currently focused on a project to publish the papers of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson.
Michael Becker, Treasurer, 2026-2028
Michael Becker is Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland College Park, as well as project manager and associate editor for the Slavery, Law, and Power Project (slaverylawpower.org). He teaches courses on the colonial Americas, the African diaspora in the early modern Atlantic world, and digital humanities. His scholarship broadly focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and French Caribbean, with particular interests in enslaved people’s political, social, and cultural formations. He is currently working on a book manuscript, “Practices of Freedom: Everyday Struggles for Autonomy, Community, and Power in Jamaica, 1780-1840,” which examines how enslaved and freed people confronted day-to-day challenges and developed a repertoire of strategies and techniques to wrest greater freedom from planters, other enslavers, and the state in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Jamaica. His scholarship has appeared in Slavery & Abolition and the William & Mary Quarterly. He holds a PhD in History from Duke University.
Lindsey R. Peterson, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2029
Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson is the Digital Humanities Assistant Professor of Practice and Librarian at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion) and the Managing Director of the Society of Civil War Historians. She has also served on the ADE’s DEI committee since 2024. Peterson is the recipient of several federal grants from the Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium, NEH, and NHPRC, including a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, where she led a project to test the application of AI to subject-tagging historical texts. She serves as co-director of the once federally-funded Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (cwrgm.org), which is editing nearly 20,000 records from Mississippi’s Civil War era governors’ offices and making them freely available online. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Civil War Era, War & Society and Civil War History. She is also the winner of several awards and fellowships, including the 2024 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award from the Society of Civil War Historians. You can learn more about her work at lindseyraepeterson.com.
Victoria Sciancalepore, Councilor-at-Large, 2024-2027
Victoria Sciancalepore is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Before taking on this role, she served as the Assistant Editor at the Jane Addams Papers Project. She worked on editing the Jane Addams Papers Digital Edition and The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volumes 4 and 5 (forthcoming). She was also a project manager at the digital edition of The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women. Sciancalepore has been a member of the Association for Documentary Editing since 2016 for which she has given several presentations at its annual conferences and contributes to its newsletter. Before her work on the Addams Papers, she was a transcription assistant at the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University.
Carolina Villaroel, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2028
Carolina A. Villarroel holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature with a focus on US Latino Literature and Women’s Studies from the University of Houston. With a deep commitment to the preservation and promotion of underrepresented voices, she previously served as the archivist responsible for the Mexican American and African American Collections at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, part of the Houston Public Library. Her extensive expertise in US Latino culture, history, and literature has shaped her work at the University of Houston (UH), where she currently serves as the Brown Foundation Director of Research for the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program. This nationally recognized program is dedicated to identifying, preserving, studying, and making accessible the written legacy of Latinas and Latinos in the United States from colonial times until 1980.
In addition to her leadership in archival work and recovered literature, Dr. Villarroel—alongside her colleague, Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura—is the co-founder of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center. This initiative was made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and represents a significant step forward in expanding access to US Latino archival materials and fostering new research in digital humanities. Through her work, Dr. Villarroel continues to advocate for the visibility and inclusion of Latino voices in the broader narrative of American history and culture.
Zoie Horecny, DEI Officer, 2026-2027
Zoie Horecny, PhD, MA Public History, is the Digital Washington Papers Editor for the Center of Digital History at the Washington Library. She spent several years as an editorial assistant at the Civil War Governors of Kentucky and Pinckney Papers Projects. She has published with the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation and The Journal of the South Carolina Historic Association on slavery in the Atlantic World with a local perspective. She brings her classroom experience to every project, with three years as an elementary educator and continuing over seven years as a college-level instructor. Last year, she served on the ADE Federal Policy Committee and attended the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting to advocate for funding for the NEH and NHPRC.
Neal Millikan, Director of Publications, 2026-2027
Neal Millikan is the Series Editor for Digital Editions with the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) and has most recently been editing the John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, part of the Mellon-sponsored Primary Source Cooperative at the MHS.”
