Institute for American Thought Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

About the Frederick Douglass Papers Project:
Staff

Current Staff: Project Director: John R. McKivigan, Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), directs editorial work on the Frederick Douglass Papers. McKivigan received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Ohio State University and joined the staff at Yale in 1979. He specializes in Antebellum U.S., Civil War, and Reconstruction history. His publications include The War Against Proslavery Religion (1984) and an annotated edition of James Redpath's 1859 book The Roving Editor (1996). He has also co-edited three collections of original essays: The Historical Moment: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (1994), Slavery, Sectionalism, and Religion (1997) and Antislavery Violence (2000).  Assistant Editor:  Robin Condon Research Assistant: Scott Philotoff Retired: Textual Editor: Gerald Fulkerson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at Freed-Hardeman University, serves as textual editor for the project under its NHPRC grant. An established expert on African-American speech and communication, Fulkerson has published essays and presented scholarly papers on Frederick Douglass. He has served the Frederick Douglass Papers as textual editor since the 1980s.
Current Graduate Assistants:   Scott Philotoff	Editorial Board: Mary F. Berry, University of Pennsylvania Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University Robert Hall, Northeastern University Louis R. Harlan, University of Maryland Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University Howard Lamar, Yale University David Montgomery, Yale University Clare Taylor, University College of Wales Howard Temperley, University of New Brunswick