Project Staff

The Jane Addams Papers at Ramapo College of New Jersey

Editors

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

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

Student staff in 2022 – Michelle K, Kayla, James J. Cathy, Luka, James L. and Tori.

 

 

Annushka Acharya is a Cooperative Education student working on Data Visualizations of our digital edition data. She is a Data Science major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Giavanna Barras is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a sophomore History Major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Casey Bontemps is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions and a sophomore History Major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

James Jackson is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. He is a senior History Major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Michelle Kukan is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a sophomore History Major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

James LaForge is an Editorial Assistant helping with copyright clearance as well as entering documents and transcriptions. He is a Ramapo College of New Jersey sophomore majoring in Communications.

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

Michelle Steidle is an Editorial Assistant working on entering document metadata and transcriptions. She is a junior History Major at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

 

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

Volunteers

  • Kevin Cho (Bergen County Technical High School) researched and wrote identifications for people and publications mentioned in our documents and did transcriptions in the summer of 2022.
  • Arav Nangia (West Windsor Plainsboro High School South) researched and wrote 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

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).

Ross Stanton Jordan, Interim Director of the Jane Addams-Hull-House Museum (Chicago, IL)

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).

Rachel Mattson, Director of Special Collections, Curator of the Peace Collection, Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)

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).

Annie V. F. Storr  Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA).

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).

Gallery

Alumni

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2016-2017 from left: Katherine, Emily, Julianne, Paul, Allie, Bert, Meg, Dara, Cathy, Sam, Tori, Sara Catherine, Renee, and Sarah.

Caitlin Biebrich (2017-2020)

Kimberlee Bongard (2018-2020)

Ed Bradley (2018-2020)

Paul Brennan (2016-2018)

Allie Cheff (2020-2021)

Kelsey Cloughley (2016-2018)

Julia Connelly (2018-2019)

Shannon Crossen (2018-2019)

Cassandra Chu Currens (2018)

Alexandra Davies (2016-2019)

Julianne De Lisi (2015-2017)

Samuel Dresher (2017)

Paige Drews (2018)

Abi Duffany (2017-2018)

Christina Dwyer (2016-2019)

Emily Dzuback (2016-2018)

Kim Evans (2018-2019)

Angelina Farallo (2021)

Talia Felner (2016-2019)

Jeffrey B. Fischer (2015-2016)

Sarah Gallopo (2016-2017)

Conor Garvey (2017)

Sedona Marie Gearity (2019)

Jerry Giordano (2019-2020)

Esther Gonzales (2020)

Nikola Gramatikov (2020-2022)

Anthony Gramuglia (2017-2018)

Sarah Grider (2021-2022)

Jesse Hann (2019-2020)

Zack Henderson (2017-2018)

Jenny Hubert (2017)

Kyle Huntley (2016-2017)

Marina Kaiafas (2020-2021)

Anamika Khanal (2017)

Donald Koger (2019)

Charlie Leppert (2019-2020)

Sara Catherine Lichon (2016-2018)

Justice Levine (2019)

Emma Lucier-Keller (2017-2019)

Patricia Marino (2019)

Luka Marjanovic (2020-2022)

Dara McGuinness (2015-2017)

Katie McNellis (2018-2019)

Tiffany Minnieweather (2018-2019)

Fiona Misiura (2019-2022)

Kayla O’Neill (2019-2022)

Robert Piper (2016)

Samantha Risman (2016-2017)

Michael Romano (2017-2019)

Jessica Ryan (2019)

Jake Schnaak (2017-2019)

Nina Schulze (2017-2018)

Ellen Skerrett (2015-2018)

Neha Sippy (2019)

Miriam Sokolska (2021)

Gianna Spitaletta (2021)

Margaret Szydlik (2016-2017)

Katherine Talian (2016)

Jillian Topolski (2019)

Utkarsh Uprety (2017)

Morgan Wall (2021-2022)

Mary Waller (2017-2018) 

Sarah Walus (2020-2022)

Editorial Staff of the Jane Addams Papers at Duke University

Mary Lynn Bryan, Editor

Maree de Angury, Assistant-to-the-Editor

Barbara Bair, Consulting Associate Editor

Ellen Skerrett, Chicago historian

Richard R. Seidel, Chicago researcher

Fred Cuddy, Web designer and project IT

Allen F. Davis, Advisory Committee

Anne F. Scott, Advisory Committee

David Chesnutt, Advisory Committee