Karin A. Wulf (born August 26, 1964) is an American historian and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
. She was the executive director of the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the
College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...
in
Williamsburg, Virginia
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from 2013 through 2021. She is also one of the founders of Women Also Know History, a searchable website database of women historians. Additionally, Wulf worked to spearhead a neurodiversity working group at William & Mary in 2011. She is currently writing a book about genealogy and political culture in Early America titled, ''Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in British America, 1680-1820''. Her work examines the history of women, gender, and the family in Early America.
Wulf joined Brown University as the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library in October 2021.
Bibliography
*''The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution.'' Edited by Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2010. .
*''Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia.'' Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2000. .
*''Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America.'' University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. .
References
1964 births
Living people
College of William & Mary faculty
21st-century American historians
American women historians
American University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Writers from Charlottesville, Virginia
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American historians
Women's historians
Historians from Virginia
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