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Project Staff
Photograph by Peter L. Stambler.
Editor:
Ann D. Gordon is editor of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and Research Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. A graduate of Smith College, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in American history. Before joining the Stanton and Anthony papers project in 1982, she worked on the editorial staffs of the projects publishing the papers of Jane Addams and Woodrow Wilson. She has written numerous articles in women's history and biography, and edited a collection of essays by scholars of African-American history, African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (1997). Her essay "Taking Possession of the Country" appears in the companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes, Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. She was both program consultant and on-screen interview for the film. She is past president of the Association for Documentary Editing.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2010:
Sara Rzeszutek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Papers of Stanton and Anthony. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 2003 and her Ph.D. in United States and African American history from Rutgers University in 2009. Her dissertation, “Love and Activism: James and Esther Cooper Jackson and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States, 1914-1968,” explores the relationship between the Cold War, the long black freedom movement, and the personal lives of leftist activists. Her work has appeared in American Communist History and Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution. She is currently revising her manuscript for publication.
Editorial Assistants, 2009-2010:
Katharine Lee is a Ph.D. student in the history department at Rutgers University, studying colonial American women's history. Her current research focuses on the role of material culture and consumerism in the creation of eighteenth-century British American women's identity and political activism. She has a B.A. in American Social Development from Grinnell College and a M.A. in history from the University of Tulsa.
Mekala Audain is a Ph.D. student in the history department at Rutgers University, studying nineteenth-century African-American and Borderlands history. Her current reserach examines slaves in antebellum and Civil War Texas who escaped to Mexico. She has a B.A. (magna cum laude) in history from Florida International University.