Karin Wulf is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, Brown University. She is a historian with a research specialty in family, gender and politics in eighteenth-century British America and has experience in non-profit humanities publishing.
The theme for Peer Review Week 2022 is Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research – learn more in today’s interview with co-chairs Danielle Padua and Jayashree Rajagopalan
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
A new study offers — surprise — mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity.
First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe.
We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series.
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.
More about books about libraries and librarians, with a compilation of suggested readings.
Libraries and librarians the world over are complex, diverse, and distinctive — and they make for fascinating reading.
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Today we offer Part 2 of our suggestions.
Identity in/ and Peer Review. Previewing some of the themes from this week’s posts for Peer Review Week.