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A Discussion on How Editions Shape Our Ideas About the Documentary Record
September 28, 2022 All day
Hosts
elabs@virginia.edu
Center for Digital Editing
UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative
About the Event
Karin Wulf discusses how editions shape our ideas about scarcity or plenty in the documentary record. This recorded discussion was given at a two-day hybrid mini-conference titled “Towards the Development of a Community for Digital Edition Publishing: A Forum for Discussing Metadata, Preservation, Digital Publication Tools, and Open Access.”
About the Presenter
In October 2021, Karin Wulf began as Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of “Vast Early America,” from 2013 to 2021 she was the Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and Professor of History at William & Mary. Wulf earned her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She writes for public and academic audiences about early American history, the worlds of scholarship and scholarly publishing, and why footnotes can save democracy (really). The author or editor of prize-winning scholarship on gender, family, and politics, she is now finishing Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America for Oxford University Press and is under contract to complete Genealogy: a Very Short Introduction, also for OUP. Having served on a variety of boards, she was appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to the Virginia 250 commission, is a board member for the National History Center and a co-founder of Women Also Know History and William & Mary’s Neurodiversity Initiative.
