Editing Institute Announces Participants for 2016

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The Association for Documentary Editing announces the roster of participants for the 2016 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 31 July – 4 August in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The participants will include:

Rhonda Barlow (Assistant Editor, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society)

Debra Bloom (Manager, Henrietta Aiken Kelly: The Correspondence of a Special Field Agent for Sericulture, Walker Local and Family History Center, Richland Library, Columbia, S.C.)

Matt Cheser (Historian, U.S. Navy in World War I Documentary History Project, Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy)

Lauren Davis (Ph.D. Candidate in History / Project Co-manager, Seward Family Archive Project, University of Rochester)

Emily de Araújo (Administrative and Editorial Assistant, Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology)

Jeff Ewen (Ph.D. Candidate in History and Culture, Personal Papers of Walter Bedell Smith, Drew University)

Louis Gallo (Publications Editor, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University

Bryan Grove (Assistant Editor, Hemingway Letters Project, Pennsylvania State University)

Evan Habkirk (Ph.D. Candidate in History / Volume Co-editor / Transcription Supervisor, Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition, University of Western Ontario, and Website Editor, Great War Centenary Association Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations)

Elizabeth Kuehn (Historian, Joseph Smith Papers Project, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

David Lai (Assistant Editor, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University)

Peter C. Luebke (Historian, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy)

John Lund (Lecturer in History, New Hampshire Citizen Archivists Initiative, Keene State College)

Heather McDaniel (Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State)

Alisea W. McLeod (Assistant Professor of Humanities, “Scarce the High Pursuit Begun”: Lucinda Humphrey Hays, Teacher of Freedpeople of Memphis, Rust College)

Andreas Meyris (Ph.D. Candidate in History / Graduate Fellow, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University)

Lynn Price (Assistant Editor, Washington Family Papers, University of Virginia)

Michelle Ridout (Ph.D. Candidate in History / Project Co-manager, Seward Family Archive Project, University of Rochester)

Lauren Roedner (Archives & Collections Assistant, Civilian Accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg, Adams County Historical Society, Gettysburg, Penn.

Victoria Sciancalepore (Assistant Editor, Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey)

Merry Ellen Scofield (Assistant Editor, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

Douglas L. Winiarski (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Memoirs of Josiah Cotton & Allied Documents, University of Richmond

The Editing Institute Admissions Committee for 2016 consisted of Bob Karachuk, the current ADE education director; Beth Luey, the immediate past ADE education director; and Neal E. Millikan, assistant editor of the Washington Papers at Mount Vernon and the University of Virginia

The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is administered by the ADE 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, 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.