Karin Wulf (JHU PhD ‘93) is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of “Vast Early America,” from 2013 to 2021 she was the Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and Professor of History at 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, archives and special collections. 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. She has served on a variety of boards, including ORCID and Jamestown-Yorktown, and, by appointment of Governor Ralph Northam, the Virginia 250 commission; she was the academic co-director for the Georgian Papers Programme and is a co-founder of Women Also Know History.
