The ADE is pleased to announce the faculty for this year’s Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD), hosted by the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University. 

Resident Faculty

Cathy Moran Hajo is the Editor and Director of the Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey, publishing a freely accessible digital edition and Volumes 4–6 of the Selected Papers of Jane Addams (covering 1901–1935). 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 1989–2015, 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, 1911–1960. 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 a digital history course at Ramapo College, team-taught an online course on challenging and censoring books for COPLAC Digital, and has taught a workshop on digital editing for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. A 1990 graduate of the IEHD, Hajo served as ADE President 2008–2009.

Jennifer Stertzer is Senior Editor of the Washington Papers, Director of the Center for Digital Editing, and Assistant Professor 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 IEHD, Stertzer served as ADE Secretary 2008–2011 and as ADE President 2016–2017.

Serenity Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego. Sutherland received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Rochester. A 2017 graduate of the IEHD, Sutherland’s experiences in documentary editing include serving as project manager of the Seward Family Digital Archive from 2014–2017, as well as her own documentary editing project, The Ellen Swallow Richards Digital Archive. She has collaborated with the Massachusetts Historical Society and three other documentary editions on a Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative Planning Grant funded by the NHPRC and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Currently she is preparing a manuscript based on her dissertation project, a biography of MIT chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards. Her research interests include documentary editing, digital humanities and digital media, history of science and technology, and women’s and gender studies.

Guest Faculty

Patrick Lewis is the Managing Editor of Scholarly Resources and Publications at the Kentucky Historical Society. As such, he is Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Project Director of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK). Lewis holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kentucky, joining the CWGK in May 2012. A 2013 graduate of the IEHD, Lewis is a specialist in Civil War-era Kentucky. He is the author of For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Kentucky, 2015) and of essays in Civil War History and the Register. Lewis is a seasoned public historian, having worked for the National Park Service at Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park. While at KHS, he helped develop the award-winning KHS HistoryMobile Civil War exhibit. More information about Lewis’s work on slavery, politics, and Civil War Kentucky—along with some inside information about the CWGK project—can be heard in recent interviews on Civil War Talk Radio and Think Humanities.

Graduation Speaker

J. Jefferson Looney is the Daniel P. Jordan Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Jefferson Papers Retirement Series, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia. Fifteen volumes of this definitive edition of Jefferson’s writings and correspondence between 1809 and 1826 have been published, and a sixteenth is in press. Dr. Looney was formerly editor and project director of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, and he is the author or editor of several works on the history of Princeton University.Originally a student of British history at Princeton, he did a doctoral dissertation under Lawrence Stone on the subject of eighteenth-century Yorkshire newspaper advertising. Dr. Looney is currently the president of the Association for Documentary Editing.

ADE Education Director

Nikolaus Wasmoen is the Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Digital Scholarship 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. A 2012 IEHD graduate, Wasmoen has worked on a range of scholarly editing and digital humanities projects, including the Lili Elbe Digital Archive, William Blake Archive, and Modernist Networks (ModNets.org), a node for modernist digital scholarship within the Advanced Research Consortium. In addition to the IEHD, Wasmoen will be co-teaching with Jennifer Stertzer ADE-sponsored courses this summer at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and DH@Guelph.

The IEHD is administered by the Association for Documentary Editing and funded by 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 IEHD, please email the ADE Education Director at nlwasmoe@buffalo.edu.