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Karin Wulf

Also known as: Karin A. Wulf

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, William & Mary, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1414-7591
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About

Updated 2.19
Karin Wulf is a historian of early America, specifically gender, family, and political culture in 17th and 18th century British America and the Anglo-Atlantic world. Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, a journal and books publisher (with partner UNC Press), as well as funder of pre-and postdoctoral research, and convener of scholarly and public events, she is also Professor of History at William & Mary, and the author or editor of award-winning scholarly books and essays. She is completing a new book, Lineage: The Politics and Practice of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century British America, and is an academic director of the international collaboration, the Georgian Papers Programme.

Wulf’s service includes co-founding Women Also Know History (womenalsoknowhistory.com), a media and curriculum tool for promoting the work of women historians. Launched as a social media campaign in 2017, the website was launched in
2018 and now hosts profiles for over 3,300 women historians. She is also a founder of the Neurodiversity Initiative at William & Mary. Wulf is a board member for ORCID, and a Chef for the Scholarly Kitchen, the blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. For the latter and elsewhere she has written about issues concerning scholarly communications in the humanities. She serves on the Nominating Committee for the American Historical Association.

Employment

  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Director
    2013 - Present
  • William & Mary Professor
    2004 - Present

Education

  • Johns Hopkins University PhD
    1993 - Present
  • Brown University

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (30)