The author of Not All Wives:  Women of Colonial Philadelphia (Cornell University Press, 1999 and University of Pennsylvania Press 2001), which won the best book award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, she is also co-editor with Catherine Blecki of Milcah Martha Moore’s Book:  A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America (1997) and with Susan Klepp The Diary of Hannah Callender Samson:  Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution (2010).  Her work has appeared in academic journals including Early American Studies,Journal of American History, and The William and Mary Quarterly.  Her book Lineage:  Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America is forthcoming from Oxford University Press; Genealogy:  A Very Short Introduction is also under contract with Oxford.  Her research is now focused on Esther Forbes, author of the children’s novel Johnny Tremain, and the impact of nineteenth-century historical practice on contemporary characterizations of early America.  

She is an elected fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Royal Historical Society among other learned societies.  Wulf was appointed by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to the commonwealth's American Revolution 250 Commission; her service to scholarly organizations includes terms on the boards of ORCID and the National History Center.  With Keisha Blain and Emily Prifogle she is a co-founder of Women Also Know History, a curriculum and media tool for promoting and supporting the work of women and nonbinary historians.  At William & Mary she was a co-founder of the Neurodiversity Initiative and continues to be deeply engaged with issues around disability and diversity.  She writes regularly on history and the humanities, #VastEarlyAmerica, the politics and processes of libraries, publishing, and scholarship for national media and for the Scholarly Kitchen, the blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.  She tweets @kawulf and can also be found at karinwulf.com.

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