Prof. Abram Van Engen

Project Director

Prof. Van Engen is the director of the City on a Hill project and Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Jacqueline Baik

Undergraduate Assistant

Jacqueline helped with collection, transcription, and editing.

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Katie Collins

Graduate Assistant

Katie tracked, transcribed, and created the collection of editions of Winthrop’s sermon as it was printed, cut, and transformed over time.

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Karly Kessler

Undergraduate Assistant

Karly streamlined, codified, and made consistent the system of tags used on all the citations collected in the COAH Archive.

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Katarina Klafka

Undergraduate Assistant

As the first assistant on this project, Katarina is responsible for the bulk of the extensive collection and tagging of texts in the COAH Archive.

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John Ladd

Graduate Assistant

John created the search interface for the COAH Archive (based on the Gender Violence Database, another HDW project) and set up the first version of this site.

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Jonathan McGregor

Graduate Assistant

Jonathan has assisted with research and tagging for the COAH Archive.

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Emily Murphy

Undergraduate Assistant

Emily collected, tagged, and categorized data for the COAH Archive.

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Jennifer Padgett

Graduate Assistant

Jennifer is responsible for curating, categorizing, and graphing COAH usage and statistics through the 2016 election.

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Michael Schaefer

Library Specialist

Michael tracked down missing data from printed materials mentioned by Google Books but unavailable for viewing online. He helped collect, categorize, and tag data for the COAH Archive.

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Maya Schaer

Undergraduate Assistant

Maya finished cleaning the data and worked on finalizing the website in the summer of 2019.

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Tumaini Ussiri

Graduate Assistant

Tumaini finished cleaning the data and worked on finalizing the website in the summer of 2019.