Ballot Archive

28 Apr 2022

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Barbara Shailor

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA, MA, PhD

Profession or occupation

Retired Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Grounds for election

Dr. Shailor joined Yale in 2001 as the Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; she assumed the position of Deputy Provost for the Arts in July 2003 and retired from the Yale administration in December 2012. Her field of specialization is Latin paleography and codicology. Among her many publications is the Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (3 vols.). Dr. Shailor has received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society. She was a Trustee of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation from 2003 to 2017; she was elected to the French honorary society Comité internationale de paléographie latine in 2000, and as a Fellow of the Medieval Academy in 2006. She was elected President of the Bibliographical Society of America in 2018 and President of the American Trust for the British Library in 2022.

Signatories

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