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Officers, Council, & Committees

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President: Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University
Vice President: Megan Peiser, Oakland University
Secretary: Meghan R. Constantinou, Simmons University
Treasurer: Patrick Olson, Patrick Olson Rare Books

Executive Director: Erin McGuirl
Delegate to the ACLS: Elizabeth Denlinger, New York Public Library
Editors, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America:
Sarah Werner, independent scholar
Jesse R. Erickson, The Morgan Library & Museum

 

Council

Class of 2027

Megan L. Cook, Colby College
Jose Guerrero, Berkeley Public Library
Magalí Rabasa, Lewis & Clark College
Emily Spunaugle, Oakland University

Class of 2026

Mary Crawford, Stanford University
Robert D. Montoya, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies & CalRBS
Andrew T. Nadell, M.D., San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Ott, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Class of 2025

Rebecca Romney, Type Punch Matrix
Alice Schreyer, Newberry Library
Kenneth Soehner, The Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Derrick Spires, Cornell University

Honorary Members of the Bibliographical Society of America

R. Dyke Benjamin
D.W. Krummel
Barbara A. Shailor
Roger E. Stoddard
G. Thomas Tanselle

Honorary Members now Deceased:
Fredson Bowers (1905-1991)
David Foxon (1923-2001)
Ruth Shepard Grannis (1872-1954)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999)
D.F. McKenzie (1931-1999)
José Toribio Medina (1852-1930)
Katharine F. Pantzer (1930-2005)
William B. Todd (1919-2011)

Audit Committee

Joan Friedman, Urbana, IL (Chair)
Mark Samuels Lasner, University of Delaware
Patrick Olson, Patrick Olson Rare Books (ex officio)
Elizabeth Ott, UNC Chapel Hill
Kenneth Soehner, The Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art

BibSite Editorial Board

Eric Ensley, University of Iowa (General Editor)
Jolie Braun, Ohio State University
Jamie Cumby, The Grolier Club
Jose C. Guerrero, Berkeley Public Library
Kate Ozment, Cal Poly Pomona
Emma M. Sarconi, Princeton University Library Special Collections

Events Committee

Mathieu Bouchard, John Abbott College (Chair)
Barbara Bieck, New York Society Library (Vice Chair)
Colleen Barrett, University of Kentucky
RB Bartgis, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Shannon Supple, Smith College

Fellowship Committee

Emily Kader, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chair)
John J. Garcia, American Antiquarian Society
Laura Helton, University of Delaware
Ann R. Hawkins, SUNY System Administration
Philip S. Palmer, Ph.D., The Morgan Library & Museum
Sarah Cusk, Lincoln College Oxford

Working Group for Fellows & Fellowships

Shira Buchsbaum, The Grolier Club (Chair)
Tad Boehmer, Michigan State University
Jaime Groetsema Saifi, University of Kansas
Alvionne Karpinski, University of British Columbia
Dylan Lewis, University of Maryland
Irina Savinetskaya, Syracuse University Libraries
Kelly Wooten, Duke University Libraries

Investments Committee

Mary Crawford, San Mateo, CA (Chair)
James P. Blanco, Guggenheim Partners
Patrick Olson (ex officio)
María Victoria Fernández, Hindman Auctions
Joan Friedman, Urbana, IL (ex officio)
Henrietta Paige Hakes, New York, NY
Valerie Hotchkiss, Azariah Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College & Conservatory
Andrew T. Nadell, M.D., San Francisco, CA
Ronald Patkus, Vassar College

BSA Liaisons Sub-Committee

Nina Musinsky, Musinsky Rare Books (Chair)
Mathieu D.S. Bouchard, John Abbott College – Bibliographical Society of Canada
John Garcia, Donald A, Heald Rare Books, Prints and Maps –  the American Antiquarian Society (AAS)
Jose C. Guerrero, Berkeley Public Library – ALA, Rare Book and Manuscripts Section
Gina Marie Hurley, Yale University – International Congress on Medieval Studies
Karen Limper-Herz, British Library – Bibliographical Society (UK)
Teri Osborn, McBride Rare Books – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA)
Jeanne-Marie Musto, Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library – College Art Association (Vice Chair)
Douglas Nelson, Nelson Rare Books – Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Karla A.M. Nielsen, Huntington Library – Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
Benjamin Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University – American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Aaron T. Pratt, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin – Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
David Solo, Brooklyn, NY – Center for Book Arts (NYC)

Membership Committee

Charlotte Priddle, New York University (Chair)
Kelly Bullard, UNC Chapel Hill
Erin McGuirl, BSA Executive Director (ex officio)
Gwendolyn D. Reese, Antiquarian Book School Foundation
Rebecca Romney, Type Punch Matrix
Jasmine Sykes-Kunk, Brown University

New Scholars Committee

Agnieszka Rec, Beinecke Library, Yale University (Chair)
Cynthia Gibson, Freelance Cataloguer; Editorial Director at BookFairs.Com (Vice Chair)
Meghan Constantinou, Simmons University
Lisa Maruca, Wayne State University
Aaron T. Pratt, The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin

Nominating Committee

Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Folger Shakespeare Library (Chair)
Adam Hooks, University of Iowa
Leslie Morris, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Nick Wilding, Georgia State University

PBSA Advisory Board

Alexander Ames, The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Hwisang Cho, Emory University
Megan Cook, Colby College
Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Emily Friedman, Auburn University
Alan Galey, University of Toronto
Alex Hidalgo, Texas Christian University
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan
Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University
Julie Park, The Pennsylvania State University
Leah Price, Rutgers University
Joseph Rezek, Boston College
Curtis Small, University of Delaware
Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University
Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library

Publications Committee

Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University (Chair)
Elizabeth Denlinger, New York Public Library (ex officio)
Mary Catherine (M.C.) Kinniburgh, Granary Books
Finch Collins, Linda Hall Library
Eileen Horansky, Ohio State University
Leah Johanson, The Grolier Club & The New York Public Library
Rhiannon Knol, Christie’s Books Department
John McQuillen, The Morgan Library & Museum
Julie Park, Penn State
Jonathan Senchyne, UW-Madison iSchool