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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, 2011-2012:
Hillary Murtha is a postdoctoral fellow at the Papers of Stanton and Anthony. She took her B.A. at Rutgers University (1991). She has an M.A. in the history of decorative arts from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (1999) an an M.A. in history from the University of Delaware (2005). She earned her Ph.D in history, with a concentration in material culture, at the University of Delaware's program in American Civilization (2010). Her dissertation, "Instruments of Power: Sonic Signaling Devices and American Labor Management, 1821-1876," examines labor managers' use of bell signals to direct, discipline and subordinate their workforces. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication, and her previously published work has appeared in professional journals and encyclopedias. A prior career as a museum curator yielded three exhibition catalogs.
Editorial Assistant, 2009-2012:
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.