Board of Directors
Joseph M. Adelman, President
Joe is a historian of media, communication, and politics in the Atlantic world. Johns Hopkins University Press published his first book, entitled Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 in 2019, which was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2019 St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize from the Bibliographical Society of America. He is now at work on a history of the Post Office in America.
Joe teaches at Framingham State University, where he is an Associate Professor of History. He also serves as a Project Coordinator for the Across America, 1776 initiative at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Adelman has presented and published broadly, including in the journals Enterprise & Society and Early American Studies, TheAtlantic.com, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and as a blogger at the Junto. In 2019, Adelman was elected as a Member of the American Antiquarian Society. He has held many fellowships including those at the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
For more information about Joseph M. Adelman visit his website: josephadelman.com
Liz Covart, Treasurer
Liz Covart is the Founding Director of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is best known for her work as the creator, host, and executive producer of the award-winning podcast Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History.
As the Founding Director of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios, Liz practices a blend of scholarly history, public history, and digital humanities. She has published for scholarly journals such as the Journal of American History, Journal of the Early Republic, and Early Modern History about history, podcasting, and public history, and she has also published for mainstream publications such as The Washington Post and the Journal of the American Revolution.
Liz has a Ph.D. in history and a research expertise in the American Revolution and is working on a born multimedia project about the history of the Articles of Confederation and American union.
Liz believes that if granted convenient access to the work of historians, the public will take an interest in history and become advocates for it.
For more information visit: lizcovart.com.
Karin Wulf, Secretary
Karin Wulf 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 early America, Karin coined the term “Vast Early America” in 2015 while 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, and why footnotes can save democracy (really). 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.
Having served on a variety of government and corporate boards, including appointment by Governor Ralph Northam to the Virginia 250 commission for the commonwealth, she is also a co-founder of Women Also Know History.
Visit karinwulf.com to learn more about Karin Wulf.
