A New Executive Director!
After an extensive 4-month national search, the Board of Trustees of The Manuscript Society is pleased to announce Jason H. Silverman, PhD, the new Executive Director. An award-winning teacher and prolific scholar, Dr. Silverman comes to the Society after a forty-year teaching career at Yale University and Winthrop University. Dr. Silverman over his distinguished career has authored or co-edited fifteen books and scores of articles, including co-editing the first two volumes of the Frederick Douglass Papers and writing the award winning, Lincoln and the Immigrant.
“In joining the Manuscript Society I feel like I am coming home,” Dr. Silverman said, “because one of my very first scholarly articles was published in Manuscripts back in 1977. In many ways it set me on the path to a becoming the published scholar that I became. I am very excited about serving the Society in my new role.”
Retiring Executive Director, Shirley Sands, is continuing to work on the transition through March 31, 2025.
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