Karin Wulf is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and professor of history at Brown University. A historian of early America with a research focus on gender, family, and politics, she was previously the executive director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and professor of history at the College of William & Mary. She also taught at American University and Old Dominion University. She has written for public and academic audiences about early American history (“Vast Early America”), the worlds of scholarship and scholarly publishing, libraries and archives, and at least once about why footnotes can save democracy. Her recent book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. She has served on a variety of nonprofit and professional boards, including the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, the National Humanities Alliance, ORCID, and Virginia250, and is a co-founder of Women Also Know History. She served on the AHA’s Nominating Committee from 2019–22. As vice president of the Professional Division she looks forward to working with colleagues to vigorously confront the mounting challenges facing history, historians, and historical expertise.