Editors:
John Raimo
Emily Rutherford
Erin Schreiner

Contributing Editors:
Eric Brandom
Sarah Claire Dunstan
Disha Karnad Jani
Yitzchak Schwartz
Carolyn Taratko

Editor Emerita:
Madeline McMahon

Contributing Editors Emeriti
Daniel London
Brooke Palmieri
Jake Purcell

About the Editors

John Raimo is a PhD candidate at New York University, where he studies modern European history. His work mainly focuses on twentieth-century intellectual history in France, Germany, Italy, and (increasingly) further east. Primary research interests include the history of the book, of reading and publishing, and of scholarship; historiography; literature; philology; and postwar European politics. Another abiding interest remains the various uses that historians and philosophers make of etymology, hermeneutics, and semantics.

Emily Rutherford is a PhD student in modern British and European history at Columbia University. She is interested broadly in education, gender and sexuality, social relations, and political thought in Britain since the 1830s. Her dissertation is about how the university was a site for the contestation and renegotiation of gender norms in Britain between 1860 and 1939. Her publications include “Impossible Love and Victorian Values: J.A. Symonds and the Intellectual History of Homosexuality,” Journal of the History of Ideas 75:4 (2014) and “Arthur Sidgwick’s Greek Prose Composition: Gender, Affect, and Sociability,” Journal of British Studies 56:1 (2017).

Erin Schreiner is an itinerant bibliographer working with private collectors and institutions in New York to arrange and describe their collections. She previously worked as Special Collections Librarian and Digital Humanities Curator at the New York Society Library, where she developed City Readers, a digital humanities tool for exploring the Library’s archive.   Erin writes about the collections she works with to share the personal and community histories that emerge from the physical evidence of readers’ interactions with books.

About the Contributing Editors

Eric Brandom finished his PhD at Duke University in 2012, and is a James Carey Fellow in the History Department at Kansas State University. He is at work on a book, Autonomy and Violence: Georges Sorel and the Problem of Liberalism, which explores the relationship between liberalism, rationalism, and political violence in the French Third Republic. Interests include the history of socialism, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and the Francophone Caribbean.

Sarah Dunstan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney on an Australian Postgraduate Award. She is working on a thesis entitled ‘A Tale of Two Republics: Black configurations of rights and citizenship between French Empire and American exceptionalism, 1919-1963.’ Sarah’s publications include ‘Conflicts of Interest: The 1919 Pan-African Congress and the Wilsonian Moment,’ Callaloo, 39:1 (Winter 2016): 133-150 and ‘A Question of Allegiance: African American intellectuals, Présence Africaine and the 1956 Congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs,’ Australasian Journal of American Studies, 34:1, (July 2015):1-16. The latter received the James Holt Award for the best article published in the Australasian Journal of American Studies in the preceding two years.

Disha Karnad Jani is a writer and historian from Markham, Ontario. She is currently a graduate student in the Department of History at Princeton University, where she studies global/transnational history. She is interested in the politics and practices of anti-imperial resistance between the World Wars, in the British Empire and across sites of empire’s incarnation.

Yitzchak Schwartz: I am a born and raised New Yorker pursuing a PhD in history at NYU. My work focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American intellectual history, especially American religion, though I occasionally stray into Europe. My current projects focus on the relationship between notions of religion and of self-development/ improvement in American culture, especially as they developed in mainline Christianity and liberal streams of Judaism. I am interested in all things Jewish history, from ancient to contemporary, and am looking forward to finding and editing exciting pieces for the blog!

Carolyn Taratko is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, where she studies Modern European history. Her research focuses on the reconceptualization of the German countryside in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is particularly interested in the interaction between ideas about the economy and the natural world.

About the Editor Emerita

Madeline McMahon is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of religion and scholarship in early modern Europe—a time and place where decisions about history and theology could be matters of life and death. She is fascinated by how historians interact with their contemporaries and their predecessors, from late antiquity to the present. Book history is integral to her work; she was a co-curator for the exhibit “Readers Make Their Mark: Annotated Books at the New York Society Library” (Feb.-Aug. 2015).

About the Contributing Editor Emeriti

Daniel London: Jersey-Born, Gotham based. My main research interests revolve around urbanization, public policy, and concepts of “the public” and “interdependence” in the late 19th and early 20th century North Atlantic. I’ve written about the class politics of bicycles, the political economy of post-war urban tourism, labor politics in the 1939 New York World’s Fair, notions of “public space” in the works of John Dewey, and the political effects of urban decentralization on Tammany Hall. I received my Masters at the CUNY Graduate Center, and am now pursuing my Ph.D at New York University.

Brooke Sylvia Palmieri is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at University College London. Her current project details the archival and publication habits of Quakers in late seventeenth-century England—specifically, how their highly collaborative methods of printing made it possible to spread their ideas in England and across the Atlantic. More broadly, she is interested in the role of publication in building communities.

Jake Purcell is getting his PhD in early medieval history at Columbia University. He studies the production of facts within medieval legal and religious institutions, and especially the administrative and documentary practices surrounding relics in France and Germany. In addition to his fondness for the old science of diplomatics, Jake’s academic interests include the literary analysis of formulaic language; medieval ideas about authenticity, evidence, proof, and truth; and the relationship between legal and religious cultures.