Project Staff

The Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey

No group photo this year! Here is a screen capture from a Zoom meeting. From top left, Fiona, Cathy, Jesse, Jerry, Charlie, Kayla, Stacy, Tori, and Caitlin.

Editors

Cathy, Stacy and Tori at the ADE meeting in Buffalo, 2017

Cathy Moran Hajo (Editor/Director)
Victoria Sciancalepore (Assistant Editor)
Stacy Pratt McDermott (Assistant Editor)

Edward Bradley

Edward Bradley is a scholarly editor, experienced in transcribing, editing, and annotating historical materials. He worked as Assistant Editor of the Abraham Lincoln Papers. He proofreads transcriptions for the digital edition.

Renee Delora

Renee Delora is our Education Coordinator. She grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and was an editorial assistant with the project from 2015-2018. She is a graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she majored in history and teacher education. She works on lesson plans and our National History Day outreach efforts.

Students

Caitlin Biebrich, working remotely during the pandemic of 2020

Nikola Gramitikov is an Editorial Assistant, working on German and Russian translations and writing biographies of Eastern Europeans. He is a Ramapo College of New Jersey Biology major.

Sarah Grider is an Editorial Assistant, working on entering documents metadata and transcriptions. She is a Ramapo College of New Jersey History Major and a Museum Studies Minor.

Rachelle Ludder is an Editorial Assistant, working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is Ramapo College of New Jersey sophomore majoring in History.

Luka Marjanovic is an Editorial Assistant, working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. He is a junior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in Theater.

Fiona Misiura is a Research Assistant Research Assistant working on biographies. She is a sophomore at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in History.

Kayla O’Neill is a Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in History.

Miriam Sokolska is a Research Assistant working on biographical entries. She is a junior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in Art History and Museum Studies.

Gianna Spitaletta is an Editorial Assistant, working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in History and minoring in Museum and Exhibition Studies.

Morgan Wall is an Editorial Assistant, working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey, majoring in Communication Arts with a concentration in Digital Filmaking, and a minor in Music.

Sarah Walus is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a Ramapo College of New Jersey History major.

Jane Addams Ramapo College staff May 2019 -From left: Caitlin, Emma, Cathy, Tricia, Mike, Ali, Christina, Kim, Justice, Jill, and Tori.

Volunteers

Arav Nangia (West Windsor Plainsboro High School South) is researching and writing identifications for events mentioned in our documents.
Elizabeth Hodges (St. John’s University) is researching and writing biographies and exploring tracing social networks.
Sharon Kane (Denison University) is entering documents and doing transcriptions.

Omeka Developers

Anneliese Dehner (Portland, OR)
Daniel Berthereau (France)

Advisory Board

Harriet Hyman Alonso, Professor of History (Emerita) at the City College of New York (Brooklyn, NY). Author of Peace as a Woman’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights (1999) and The Women’s Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942 (1997).

Mary Lynn Bryan, editor of the Jane Addams Papers, retired (Fayetteville, NC).

Wendy Chmielewski, Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Swarthmore, PA), co-editor of Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy (2009).

Marilyn Fischer, Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, co-editor of Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing (2019), Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy (2009), and Jane Addams’s Writings on Peace (2003).

Susan Hangen, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, Dean of the Salameo School of Humanities and Global Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ).

Mary Hanson Harrison, former president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. branch (Des Moines, IA).

Peggy Glowacki, Manuscripts Librarian, Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ann D. Gordon, editor of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers, retired (New Brunswick, NJ).

Esther Katz, editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers, New York University, retired, (New York, NY).

Louise W. Knight, author of two Addams biographies, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005) and Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010).

Patrick Murray-John, Northeastern University, Snell Library, Associate Director of Systems (Boston, MA); former Omeka Dev Team Manager at George Mason University.

Stephen P. Rice, Professor of American Studies and co-convenor of the Museum Studies minor, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ).

Rima Lunin Schultz, creator of Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, and Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 website.

Jennifer Scott, former director of the Jane Addams-Hull-House Museum (Chicago, IL).

Mona Siegel, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento, is the author of Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War.

Jennifer Stertzer, Senior editor at the George Washington Papers and Manager of Digital Programs at the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA).

Stacie Taranto, Assistant Professor of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ).

Former Advisory Board members:

Valerie Harris, former archivist at the Special Collections, at the University of Chicago at Illinois.

Carter Jones Meyer, Professor of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey (retired).