The ADE is pleased to announce the resident faculty and invited guests for this year’s Editorial Institute in Olympia, Washington.

Resident Faculty

Cathy Moran Hajo is the Editor 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 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. 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.

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 Editing Institute, Stertzer served as ADE Secretary from 2008 to 2011 and as ADE President 2016–17.

Guest Faculty

Mark Cheathem is Project Director and Co-editor of the Papers of Martin Van Buren at Cumberland University, where he also serves as a Professor of History. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Mississippi State University and is a 2015 graduate of Camp Edit. Cheathem is the author or editor of seven books on the Jacksonian and Civil War eras.

Anneliese Dehner is an independent digital library developer working in Portland, Oregon. In this role, Anneliese designs user interfaces for digital libraries, develops functionality to improve the usability and discoverability of digital collections, and wrangles metadata for interoperability. Her collaborators include the Orbis Cascade Alliance, the Washington State Library, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the editors of the Jane Addams Digital Edition, and the editors of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition. Prior to venturing out on her own, Anneliese worked in academic libraries for 12 years, focusing on effective metadata applications and user-friendly digital initiatives. Most recently, she was the Digital Library Developer for Lewis & Clark College’s Watzek Library, where she created academic digital projects based on faculty grant-funded research or in support of curricula ranging from the sciences to the arts. Anneliese has a BFA in Printmaking from the University of South Carolina.

Graduation Speaker

Paul Israel is Director and General Editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He joined the project in 1980 and became director in 2002.  To date the project has produced eight volumes of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Its online digital image edition includes images for nearly 100,000 documents with images for another 100,000 documents still to be added.  In 2005 the Society for the History of Technology awarded the Edison Papers a special, one-time retrospective award as a model reference work published since the founding of the Society in 1958. Dr. Israel is also the author of  Edison: A Life of Invention (John Wiley & Sons, 1998), winner of the 2000 Edelstein [Dexter Prize] of the Society for the History of Technology, and From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).  And with Robert Friedel he is coauthor of Edison’s Electric Light: The Art of an Invention (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010; Rutgers University Press, 1986). Dr. Israel’s work examines technological creativity, the origins of modern innovation, patent regimes, and intersections between science, technology, and industry.

ADE Education Director

Nikolaus Wasmoen is the Visiting Assistant Professor 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 ending in 2020.  

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.