Cathy Moran Hajo, Associate Editor/Assistant Director
Dr. Cathy Hajo has been with the Project since 1989. She has a B.A. from Ramapo College of New Jersey, a Ph.D. in History, and a certificate in Archival Management from New York University. She received training in historical editing at the NHPRC's Editing Institute. Among her interests are the digital publication of primary source material and the history of women and gender.
Her work at the Sanger Project includes assisting in all phases of editing including selection, proofreading, research, indexing and preparing the manuscript for publication. She also assists with the general administration of the Project, supervising students and interns, researching and writing grant applications and overseeing the Project's computer systems. She maintains the Project’s website and designs its Newsletter.
Cathy recently completed her dissertation, "What Every Woman Should Know: Birth Control Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939" and is revising it for publication. She recently published an article in Documentary Editing, "Last Words: Documenting the End of Lives," Fall 2006. She participated in the 2007 Nebraska Digital Workshop, presenting the Project's Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger digital collection. In Spring 2008, she will be teaching a graduate course, "Historians in the New Media" for NYU's Archives and Public History Program.
Dr. Hajo is the President-Elect of the Association for Documentary Editing, heads the Program Committee for the 2008 meeting and is involved in the Association's strategic planning initiative. She is on the Advisory Council for the third edition of Mary Jo Kline's A Guide to Documentary Editing.
You can contact Cathy Hajo by e-mail at cathy.hajo@nyu.edu or by phone at 212-998-8666.
Revised: Jan. 2, 2008.