Karin Wulf, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

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.

Articles by Karin Wulf

Peer Review in a Baker’s Dozen

A Baker’s Dozen TSK posts that address issues central to diversity, the theme of Peer Review Week 2018. We hope these will get your reading, thinking and commenting!

Clear, Blue Sky: The Environment for Diversity in Peer Review

To kick off Peer Review Week 2018, Alice Meadows and Karin Wulf — guest editors for this week — share their vision of the environmental requirements for a diverse and inclusive peer review ecosystem.

Libraries and Archives: A Humanities Take on Discovery

Scholars are interested in discovering libraries and archives as institutional producers of knowledge, not only using them as providers of resources.

Engaging the Public in Scholarship: A Case for Small Scale

Sharing research with the public is critical, and there are multiple platforms and approaches to this kind of outreach. We tried a local book group for sharing both scholarship and the scholarly process.

Metrics: Human-Made, but Humane?

With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, HumetricsHSS is a kind of meta-workshop in “rethinking humane indicators of excellence in the humanities and social sciences.”

Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?

What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.

Peer Review in a World of “Alternative Facts”

The topic of this year’s Peer Review Week is transparency in review – we are joining in the celebrations with a series of posts on this topic and on peer review more generally, beginning with a look at the critical importance of peer review as a mechanism of discernment and scrutiny in a world of “alternative facts”.

Pace Intellectual: Could Publishing Embrace Slow?

A recent book took aim at accelerating administrative demands and the internalized expectation of measurable productivity that have eroded the quality of academic life and work. Is there a corollary for scholarly publishing?

Missing the Target: The UK Scholarly Communications License

The UK Scholarly Communications License repeats many of the stumbles of the original monolithic and mandatory OA policies. We urge its proponents to slow down and learn from them instead.

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