The Association for Documentary Editing is pleased to announce the resident faculty, guest faculty, invited instructors and graduation speaker for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held June 18–22 2017 in Buffalo, NY.

Resident Faculty

Cathy Moran Hajo is the Editor of the Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a B.A. from Ramapo College as well as a certificate in archival management, an M.A., and a Ph.D. from New York University. Hajo was the Associate Editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers from 1989 to 2015, helping to edit 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 publications, Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel and the Public Writings of Margaret Sanger, 1911–1959. With the Jane Addams Papers, Hajo is digitizing the microfilm edition and publishing the remaining three volumes in the Selected Papers of Jane Addams (covering 1901–1935). Hajo is also the author of Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939 (University of Illinois Press, 2010). She teaches digital history at Ramapo College and digital editing at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. A 1990 graduate of the Editing Institute, Hajo served as ADE President from 2008 to 2009.

Ondine LeBlanc is Director of Publications at the Massachusetts Historical Society. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. At the Massachusetts Historical Society since 1997, LeBlanc has helped edit and publish a range of documentary editions, including letters, diaries and journals, and memoirs, as well as other books representing the MHS collections. She served as project manager of the Adams Papers Digital Editions, overseeing the conversion of thirty-seven separate print volumes into a single consolidated online edition. The department’s most current documentary editing projects are the Papers of Robert Treat Paine and the Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall.

Elisa Beshero-Bondar is the Director of Pitt-Greensburg’s Center for the Digital Text and an Associate Professor of English. An active member of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), she was elected to serve from 2016 to 2017 on the TEI Technical Council, an eleven-member international committee that supervises amendments to the TEI Guidelines. She is the architect of the Digital Mitford Project and other web-based research projects using computational methods to study epic poetry and romance in translation, available from her development site. Her research often involves working with archival letters and manuscripts, and has led her to study what early 19th-century poets and dramatists understood about human physiology and electricity, cultural first contact on Pacific islands, and the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Her book about women Romantic poets, titled Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2011.

Guest Faculty

Jennifer Stertzer is Senior Editor of the Washington Papers, Interim Director of the Center for Digital Editing, and Lecturer at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.A. from Florida State University and an M.A. from Appalachian State University. With the Papers of George Washington since 2000, Stertzer has served as project manager of the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, overseeing the conversion of print volumes into a single consolidated online edition. She developed and edited the George Washington Financial Papers Project. A 2003 graduate of the Editing Institute, Stertzer served as ADE Secretary from 2008 to 2011 and is currently ADE President.

Paul Schacht is Interim Provost and Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, and the Director of Digital Thoreau, an online resource and community focused on promoting scholarly and public understanding of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s works and legacy. Digital Thoreau comprises several projects, including a fluid-text edition of Walden and The Readers’ Thoreau, a social platform for reading Thoreau’s works collaboratively and sharing resources for analysis and curriculum development. In addition to his work on Thoreau, Schacht has published essays on Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, and digital pedagogy.

Thomas P. Slaughter is the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of six books, including The Whiskey Rebellion (1986); Independence (2014); and Exploring Lewis and Clark (2003); and the editor of four others, including the Library of America edition of William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings (1996). He is the editor of the journal Reviews in American History and Director of the Seward Family Archive, a documentary edition and digital humanities project. He is now working on two books, An Old Man, but a Young Gardener: Thomas Jefferson in Retirement and The Sewards at Home.

Invited Special Instructors

Dr. Nora Dimmock is Assistant Dean for Information Technology, Research and Digital Scholarship at the University of Rochester.

Michael H. Read is Managing Editor of Reviews in American History and a History PhD Student at the University of Rochester.

Lauren Davis is co-Project Manager of the Seward Family Archive and a History PhD Student at the University of Rochester.

Eric C. Loy is the Project Coordinator for the William Blake Archive and an English PhD Student at the University of Rochester, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Digital Humanities, 2014-16.

Graduation Speaker

Morris Eaves is the Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester. Eaves’s research has been principally concerned with literature and the visual arts and with the cultural contexts of British Romanticism, especially the interlocking histories of technology and commerce. His current project, Posterity, is a speculative study of editorial theory and practice in terms of the audience’s historical power to preserve, alter, and abandon its objects of interest. From this angle he is exploring the social role of editing and its product, the edition, in connection with such issues as censorship, plagiarism, and intellectual property. Eaves wants to understand “editing” in its broad, fundamental connections with communication, information control, and cultural memory across a range of arts and media. His interests in multimedia editing, media history, and British Romanticism are combined in his work as co-editor of the William Blake Archive, the online digital edition of Blake’s literary and artistic work, sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Rochester, and the Library of Congress; and as director of the Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities at the University of Rochester. He has authored William Blake’s Theory of Art (Princeton, 1982) and The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake (Cornell, 1992) and edited The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge, 2003), The Early Illuminated Books of William Blake, with Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi (Blake Trust/Tate/Princeton, 1993), and Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, with Morton D. Paley.

ADE Education Director

Nikolaus Wasmoen is the Postdoctoral Fellow in English and the Digital Humanities at the University at Buffalo, where he serves as the Technical Director of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive while developing digital scholarship programs and teaching in the digital humanities, media studies, and modernist literature. Wasmoen holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. His research explores transatlantic modernism, especially early twentieth-century British and American poetry, with an emphasis on the digital humanities, textual studies, and scholarly editing. Wasmoen has worked on a range of scholarly editing and digital humanities projects. He is the Digital Editor of Man into Woman: A Digital Archive of the Life Narrative of Lili Elbe. Since 2010, he has worked for the William Blake Archive, focusing primarily on an ongoing electronic edition of Blake’s letters. He is the Project Manager for Modernist Networks (ModNets.org), a node for peer review and aggregation of modernist digital scholarship within the Advanced Research Consortium. A 2012 graduate of the Editing Institute, Wasmoen is the Education Director for the ADE for a three-year term starting in 2017.  

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 information on the Editing Institute, please email Nikolaus Wasmoen, ADE Education Director, at nlwasmoe@buffalo.edu.