The Association for Documentary Editing announces the graduation speaker for the 44th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 13–17 June 2015 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The graduation speaker will be Beth Luey.

Beth Luey was Education Director of the Association for Documentary Editing from 2011 to 2013. She holds a B.A. from Radcliffe and an M.A. from Harvard. At Arizona State University from 1980 until her retirement in 2006, Luey was the Founding Director of ASU’s Scholarly Publishing Program. At the Massachusetts Historical Society from 2008 to 2012, Luey helped to edit the two-volume Diary and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams. Luey is the author of numerous books, including Handbook for Academic Authors, Revising Your Dissertation, Expanding the American Mind, and Editing Documents and Texts. She is now working on a local history book exploring the meaning of house and home. Luey served as ADE President from 2002 to 2003.

Luey will also join the resident faculty of the Editing Institute for the final day’s activities, a session on the funding of documentary editions and the future of documentary editing. The resident faculty will include Cathy Moran Hajo, Ondine Le Blanc, and Jennifer Stertzer, and Bob Karachuk.

The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is administered by the Association for Documentary Editing under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an affiliate of the National Archives.

For more on the Editing Institute, please visit the ADE website at <http://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=79> or e-mail Bob Karachuk, ADE Education Director, at <ade-educationdir@documentaryediting.org>.