The Papers of Thomas Jefferson editorial project warmly congratulates Elaine Weber Pascu, the 2014 recipient of the ADE’s Lyman H. Butterfield Award given at the Association’s annual meeting in Louisville in July.

We also welcome two new colleagues, who join us as assistant editors:

Andrew J. B. Fagal completed his dissertation on “The Political Economy of War in the Early Republic, 1775-1821,” at Binghamton University and has had fellowships at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Hagley Museum and Library, the David Library of the American Revolution, and the William L. Clements Library. His observations on “American Arms Manufacturing and the Onset of the War of 1812” appear in the current issue of the New England Quarterly.

Merry Ellen Scofield recently defended her dissertation, “Assumptions of Authority: The White House, the City, and Capital Society, 1801-1831,” at Wayne State University. She is the author of, among other articles, “The Fatigues of His Table: Politics of Presidential Dining During the Jefferson Administration” in the Fall 2006 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic and “Celebrating Peace on the Detroit Frontier” in the 2012 collection Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812 edited by Denver Brunsman, Joel Stone, and Douglas Fisher.

Barbara Oberg retired as General Editor of the Jefferson Papers in February and was succeeded by James P. McClure, who has been with the project since 1996.