Department of History
Karin Wulf
Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library, Professor of History
John Carter Brown Library
Areas of Expertise
United States, Atlantic World
Office Hours
By appointment only
Biography
A historian of gender, family and politics in eighteenth-century British America, Karin Wulf earned her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. Her latest book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America, was published by Oxford University Press in July 2025. Before coming to the JCB and Brown in 2021, she was the Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture from 2013-21 and Professor of History at William & Mary.