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Serenity Sutherland, President

headshot of Serenity SutherlandSerenity Sutherland is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego. She has a PhD in History and a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Rochester, a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in English/Creative Writing and History from SUNY Binghamton. Additional research interests that intersect with her work in scholarly editing include the history of women in science and technology, the digital humanities, and media studies. She is the current editor of the Ellen Swallow Richards Papers, which is a member of the Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society, funded by the NHPRC and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Previously, she was the project manager and transcription manager at the Seward Family Digital Archive from 2012-2017. A select list of venues where her publications can be found include Scholarly Editing, the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, and Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities. She is also an instructor for e-Laboratories, where she is working on the Fundamentals of Editing Course (formerly known as the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, or “Camp Edit”), and has designed and taught courses related to many aspects of digital documentary editing. From 2022-23 she served as President Elect. Committed to supporting the needs and goals of the ADE membership, she is also interested in engaging with allied professionals whose practices and interests align with the objectives of the ADE.

Christy Regenhardt, President Elect

Christy Regenhardt is an independent scholar serving as Consulting Editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University. Previously, she served as an editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project for fifteen years, leading their work on both digital and print editions. Her current work involves editing educational content for public broadcasting and publishing that material online. She has been a member of ADE for over a decade, and has served on numerous committees, chairing the Nominating Committee in 2019-2020 and the Boydston Prize Committee in 2021-22. She has a PhD in History and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.

 

 

Robert Riter, Past President

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Robert B. Riter is a faculty member in The University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies, coordinating the School’s archival studies program, and teaching courses in archival science and book history. He currently serves as managing editor of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. His duties as President Elect are primarily associated with the organization of the 2022 Annual Meeting. Committed to supporting the needs and goals of the ADE membership, he is also interested in engaging with allied professionals whose practices and interests align with the objectives of the ADE.

 

 

 

Andreas Meyris, Secretary

Andreas Meyris is the assistant editor at the Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr.  The project is currently compiling and publishing documents covering Mitchell’s crucial role in passing the landmark civil rights bills of the 1960s. From 2015 until 2022, Andreas was a graduate fellow and associate editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. He has been a member of the Association for Documentary Editing since attending the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents in 2016. Andreas completed his dissertation, titled “Labor’s Reconstruction: Social Democracy and Progressivism in American Trade Unions, 1917-1925,” in 2023 and received a PhD in modern American history from the George Washington University.

 

Landon Elkind, Treasurer

Landon D. Elkin poses with his arms crossed on multiple editions of Whitehead & Russell's Principia Mathematica, in front of several bookshelves

Landon D. C. Elkind is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Western Kentucky University. His current research focuses on the Principia Rewrite project; part of this research includes the difficult editorial task of digitizing, re-typesetting, and creating a critical edition of Principia Mathematica, a three-volume, 1,992-page work that includes more writing in logical symbolism than in English. This new edition is under contract with Cambridge University Press, and the first re-done volume is expected to appear in 2025. The reason he is interested in becoming more involved in and contributing to the ADE is because he has already learned a good deal about documentary editing from the ADE’s major guides to documentary editing and he wants to keep updated on best editorial practices and new techniques. He is currently treasurer of the Bertrand Russell Society and was previously treasurer of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Christopher Minty, Director of Publications

As the ADE’s Director of Publications, Christopher Minty oversees the publication of the ADE’s online, open-access journal, Scholarly Editing, and the organization’s e-newsletter, which is published three times a year. He is an editor at the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia, where he contributes to a number of projects, including the North American Climate History Project, the Papers of George Washington, and the University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative. He served as Reviews Editor for Scholarly Editing between 2019 and 2021 and is the author of Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the America Revolution in New York City (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2023). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Stirling.

Mark Cheathem, Councilor-at-Large, 2021-2024

Photo credit: Ken Brock Dr. Mark Cheathem is a professor of history at Cumberland University, located near Nashville, Tennessee, where he also serves as project director of the Papers of Martin Van Buren, a digital/print edition of the eighth president’s documents. Cheathem is currently serving the ADE as a Councilor-at-Large for the three-year term ending in 2024.

 

 

 

 

Cristina Devereaux-Ramírez, Councilor-at-Large, 2022-2025

Headshot of Cristina D. Ramírez in front of a shelf of booksDr. Cristina Devereaux Ramírez is an Associate Professor and Program Director for the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) graduate program in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She received her doctoral degree in English with a focus in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2010. Prior to her graduate work, she taught middle and high school literature and composition for 12 years with the El Paso Independent School District in Texas. Dr. Ramírez has published two feminist historical books that center on the recovery, transcription, and translation of Spanish language texts from Mexico and the US. Her first book, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1887-1942 (University of Arizona Press, 2015), won the 2016 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Prize from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Her second, Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1875-1922 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019) was co-authored with Dr. Jessica Enoch of the University of Maryland and funded with a Research Initiative grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her third book project, currently under contract with Trinity University Press, recovers the writings of her grandmother, Doña Ramona González, a published writer from the 1970s whose papers (over 750+ pages of poems, short stories, fables, and more) were discovered buried (and almost lost) in 2015 in a vegetable box in a family member’s home. Since this discovery, Cristina has received several grants to digitized and preserve these papers, including an Andrew W. Mellon grant under the auspices of the U.S. Hispanic Recovery Project. The online exhibit of The Ramona González Papers was the final product of the grant. List of past presidents Officer and Committee Guides.

Dee Dee Baldwin, Councilor-at-Large, 2023-2026

DeeDee Baldwin is History Research Librarian and Honors College liaison at Mississippi State University. She is a past president of the Society of Mississippi Archivists and a current member of the board of directors for the Mississippi Historical Society. In 2021, she was recognized by the Reference and User Services Association’s History Section with its Genealogy/History Achievement Award

Neel Agrawal, DEI Officer

Neel Agrawal (JD, MLIS) is the Digital Projects Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he manages a diverse array of open access digital collections. As a contributor to eLaboratories, Neel created online modules covering fundamental aspects of editing such as copyright and permissions, digitization, and quality control. Previously, he managed LA Law Library’s extensive collection of foreign and international law, launched the South Asia Open Archives, and served as an inaugural fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab for his groundbreaking ethnomusicology project on African Drumming Laws. Neel draws on his extensive social justice background cultivated through working for the National ACLU and interning at the Soros Foundations, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, and the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. He currently serves on the eBoard of the LMU Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association and on the Admin Team for the Digital Library Federation Committee on Equity and Inclusion. He obtained Juris Doctor and Bachelor’s degrees from Michigan State University, as well as a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington.