The Association for Documentary Editing announces the graduation speaker for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 31 July – 4 August 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The graduation speaker will be Esther Katz.

Esther Katz is Editor and Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University. She holds a B.A from Hunter College of the City University of New York and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from NYU. Since founding the Margaret Sanger Papers in 1987, Katz has published the 101-reel Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition (University Publications of America, 1996), the four-volume Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger (University of Illinois Press, 2007–2016), and two digital editions, Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel (nyu.edu/projects/sanger/documents/mswomanrebel.php) and the Public Writings of Margaret Sanger,  1911–1960 (sangerpapers.org/). Katz previously worked on the National Women’s Trade Union League Papers, the Papers of William Lloyd Garrison, and the Papers of William Livingston. She has also taught graduate seminars in historical editing and digital editing at NYU. A 1986 graduate of the Editing Institute, Katz served as a member of the resident faculty from 1999 to 2001 and as ADE president from 2003 to 2004. She received the ADE’s Lyman H. Butterfield Award in 2015 in recognition of her contributions to documentary publication, teaching, and service.

Katz will also join the resident faculty of the Editing Institute for the final two days of activities, including a session on the funding of documentary editions and the future of documentary editing. The resident faculty will include Cathy Moran Hajo, Jennifer Stertzer, Amanda Gailey, 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The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is administered by the Association for Documentary Editing under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an affiliate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 and Records Administration (NARA).

For more on the Editing Institute, 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.