Victoria Sciancalepore

Student Supervisor of the Penny Colman Project, 2021-present

Over three decades, Colman painstakingly documented the physical memorials that honor women significant in national and international history. With her donation, Ramapo College of New Jersey has launched “The Penny Colman Collection of Women’s Historical Landmarks,” a digital project that will make the thousands of items, including 35mm photographs, brochures, and other supplementary information provided by Colman available to outside researchers, students, and faculty. To build this resource, a team at Ramapo College developed an Omeka S based digital archive in order to catalogue the collection’s items and to publish them online.

Assistant Editor of the Jane Addams Papers Project, 2016-present

Housed in RCNJ, the Jane Addams Papers Project (JAPP) was originally run by Mary Lynn Bryan out of Duke University. Jane Addams (1860-1935), based out of Chicago’s Hull-House, is credited with being the first social worker. Her scope of work included peace activism, labor reform, women’s rights, and a passion for the immigrant community. Working from an 82-reel microfilm compiled in 1976, our goal is to house those documents on a freely accessible website as well as produce the multi-volume edition titled The Selected Papers of Jane Addams.