Cathy Moran Hajo

Cathy Moran Hajo is a historian and scholarly editor. She currently serves as the editor/director of the Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey, which is producing the Jane Addams Digital Edition and the Selected Papers of Jane Addams.  For over twenty-five years she worked as the associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University, on a microfilm edition, a digital edition, and the Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. She is the author of Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939. She has experience in editing microfilm, print, and digital projects using databases and XML encoding. She has taught courses on digital history at Ramapo College, New York University and William Paterson University, and served for many years as faculty at the Institute for Editing Historical Documents and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. She is an active member of the Association for Documentary Editing, serving as President in 2008-2009. She volunteers with the Mahwah Museum, serving as vice president and archives director.

She uses Omeka Classic to run the Jane Addams Papers and is happy to talk with anyone about this platform and how it is best applied for editing.