Ballot Archive

16 Feb 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Heather Wolfe

Academic degrees, honours etc.

2000 UCLA, MLIS 1998 University of Cambridge PhD and MPhil 1992 Amherst College BA Munby Fellow, 2021-22

Profession or occupation

Associate Librarian and Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library

Grounds for election

Dr Wolfe is an internationally distinguished expert in early modern English Manuscripts, Palaeography and Librarianship. She holds the 2021-22 Munby Fellowship at Cambridge U. Library. She has been awarded significant funding from the Mellon Foundation, the NEH and other organisations for numerous projects, including: University of Sheffield pilot project funded by the AHRC US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network, “Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures,” Mellon Initiative in Collaborative Research. Recipe Books Digitization and Transcription Project, PineTree Foundation grant. Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) platform Manuscript Cataloging Project, 2007–2011: Mellon Foundation. She has published widely on her manuscripts research and has taught for many years an annual early modern palaeography course at the Folger, Huntington and other libraries, thus training numerous scholars in manuscript studies.

Signatories

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