Project Team

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Project Team

Editorial Staff

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Project Director and Editor

Monica Henry

Ph.D., History, Université Paris Cité (France). Associate Professor Emerita of American History at the Université Paris Est-Créteil; Former European consultant at The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen. 

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Assistant Editor

Ryan McKimmon

BA in History at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

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Research Assistant

Jacob Evans

Undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pursuing degrees in History and Philosophy; 2026 Robsinon Fellow and 2026 Oxford Summer Thesis Fellow.

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Research Assistant

Mary Sherrer

MA, Public History, University of South Carolina, Former Assistant Director and Associate Editor of The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen; former Assistant Editor of the Digital Edition of the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry.

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Research Assistant

Bethanie Sonnefeld

MA in English literature, Brigham Young University. PhD candidate in English literature, University of South Carolina. She has interests in nineteenth-century American literature, focusing on feminist implications, archival and recovery work, and Gothic literature. 

Former Staff

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Former Co-Project Director and Editor

Marty D. Matthews

Ph.D., History, University of South Carolina. Former Associate Editor at The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen; author of Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney (University of South Carolina Press, 2004). 

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Research Assistant

Laura Bouali

MA in English, Université Paris Est-Créteil, France, with a special interest in American literature and history.                                           

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Research Assistant

Claire Leibovich

MA in Critical methodologies, King’s College, London. PhD Candidate in French studies, Durham University (UK). She works on literary approaches to the ‘Jewish question’ in postcolonial Francophone Jewish literature from North Africa. 

Advisory Board

Tom Downey

Senior Associate Editor with The Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of South Carolina. Before joining the Jefferson Papers in 2004, he worked as an editor with The Papers of John C. Calhoun and The Papers of Henry Laurens and as managing editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia. His writings and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications and his book, Planting a Capitalist South, was published by LSU Press in 2006.

Scot French

Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research at the University of Central Florida, author of The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and “Notes on the Future of Virginia: Visualizing a 40-Year Conversation on Race and Slavery in the Correspondence of Jefferson and [William] Short,” Current Research in Digital History 1 (2018).

Pierre Gervais

Professor of American Civilization at Université Paris Cité, is a specialist of merchant practice and business history, focusing on the economy of the Early Republic and the Early Modern era more generally. His work has been recognized with two awards, the Willi Paul Adams prize from the Organization of American Historians in 2007, and the Accounting History Review prize in 2016.

Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy

Professor of History at the University of Virginia, author of Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (UVA Press, 2021) and The Men Who Lost America. British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press, 2013).

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

Professor Emerita of the Early American Republic at Université Paris Cité, author of Blacks and Whites against Slavery: An Ambiguous Antislavery Alliance in the United States 1754-1830 (Fall 2022, Éditions Karthala).

Constance B. Schulz

Former Project Director and Senior Editor of The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry and The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, past president of the Association for Documentary Editing, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of South Carolina.

Mark Smith

Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, author of Mastered by the Clock: Time Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (UNC Press, 2000), How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (UNC Press, 2006), and Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (UNC Press, 2015).