Karin Wulf is the director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, which has been publishing the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American scholarship, and books with the University of North Carolina Press, since 1943. She is also Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, and co-chair the College’s Neurodiversity Working Group. Her scholarship focuses on women, gender and family in the early modern British Atlantic.
Intellectual property is arguably the most important and least clearly understood concept in the world SK readers live and work in. Siva Vaidhyanathan’s new book is an important introduction to IP’s development and discontents.
A newly founded scholarly society brings a fresh perspective and offers some useful lessons for engaging the public and researchers alike.
What makes Annette Gordon-Reed’s recent NYRB essay such a powerful example of the book review genre?
Are scholarly citation practices really the bedrock of engaged democratic governance? Maybe.
Upstream from the work of scholarly publishers, it’s the middle of the deceptively paced academic summer when scholars I know are often focused on conferences, research trips, and writing. Summer isn’t as frantic as the academic year, when every other […]
Basic literacy in scholarly communications is essential for scholars across disciplines and fields. What I learned moving from full-time academic work to a role in scholarly publishing.
A new OA monograph series takes a discipline-specific approach to funding, licensing and editorial work.
Historians can and do play a vital role in the public humanities, but there are vital reasons not just why but how we write for one another, too.
The musical “Hamilton” raises questions about history and historical practice that reflects what scholars are and aren’t doing.
A range of open access (OA) monograph experiments and studies are upon us, or are about to be, and it’s worth taking a look at what we know now and what we can expect to know in the next year […]