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, an M.A. and 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's first book, Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 will be published by the University of Illinois Press in the spring of 2010. 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. She served on the Advisory Council for the third edition of Mary Jo Kline's A Guide to Documentary Editing. She teaches a graduate course, "Historians in the New Media" for NYU's Archives and Public History Program, and served on the Faculty of the NHPRC's Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents in 2008 and 2009. She recently co-wrote with Amanda French, an article on updating the curriculum in the Archives and Public History Program for NYU's Connect magazine. Dr. Hajo is the President of the Association for Documentary Editing and is involved in the Association's strategic planning initiative.
You can contact Cathy Hajo by e-mail at cathy.hajo@nyu.edu or by phone at 212-998-8666.
Revised: Sept. 23, 2009.