Who are we editing for? How digital publication changes the role of the scholarly edition

Cathy Moran Hajo is the editor of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a PhD in History and a certificate in archival management from New York University. Before taking on the Addams Papers, she worked for over 25 years as the Associate Editor and Assistant Director of The Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University, helping edit the 'Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition', the 'Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger' and two digital publications. She is the author of 'Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939' (2010). She has taught graduate courses in Digital History at NYU and William Paterson University, and co-taught workshops on digital editions at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the one-week Institute for Editing Historical Documents. She currently develops online course materials for eLaboratories on editing and digital history. She was the President of the Association for Documentary Editing from 2008 to 2009 and is a board member and archival director for the Mahwah Museum.