Cathy Moran Hajo

I am the teacher for Discovering Digital History. I’m also the Editor and Director of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey. I am a Ramapo College Alumni, graduating in 1986 from the School of American/International Studies. Afterwards, I went to graduate school at New York University, earning a Master’s Degree in History (1988), a certificate in Archives and Public History (1990), and a Ph.D. in History (2006). While at NYU I worked for many years as the Associate Editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project.

Working as a scholarly editor introduced me to the field of digital history as we tried to find new ways to bring historical documents to the public. I have taught digital history courses for graduate students at NYU and William Paterson University, and for undergraduates at Ramapo College. I am also team teaching a distance learning course for COPLAC Digital, A Burning Idea: Challenging and Censoring Books, with Truman University professor Rebecca Dierking. I co-teach documentary editing and digital editing summer workshops for faculty for the Institute for Editing Historical Documents and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute with Jennifer Stertzer and others.

My academic research interests are in women’s history, social history, with a focus on how reformers created change. I was one of a team of editors who published the four-volume Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, and wrote a monograph, Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 (2010). I am currently editing Volume 4 of  The Selected Papers of Jane Addams,  1901-1913.

I am an active member of the Association for Documentary Editing, and served as its president in 2009.  I currently serve on the Board of Trustees of the Mahwah Museum and as the museum’s Archives Director.