Speaker Series: Writing the Family Histories of the American Revolution

Dr. Karin Wulf is Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and professor of history at Brown University. From 2013 – 2021, she was the executive director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and professor of history at The College of William & Mary. Wulf earned her PhD in history
from Johns Hopkins University. She writes for public and academic audiences about early American history, the worlds of scholarship and scholarly publishing, and why footnotes can save democracy. The author or editor of prize-winning scholarship on gender, family, and politics, she is now finishing Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America for Oxford University Press and is under contract to complete Genealogy: a Very Short Introduction, also for OUP. Having served on a variety of boards, she was appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to the Virginia 250 commission, is a board member for the Jamestown Yorktown Foundation Inc., and is a co-founder of Women Also Know History.

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