Author Archives: Cathy Moran Hajo

About Cathy Moran Hajo

Cathy Moran Hajo is the Associate Editor and Assistant Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers, a scholarly editing project located at NYU.  With the Sanger Papers, she has published three volumes of the Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, a two-series microfilm edition, and two electronic publications.  She has worked as a documentary editor for over twenty years, specializing in the publication of historical materials in digital form, and participating in scholarly conferences and meetings on digital issues.

Cathy is a Past President of the Association for Documentary Editing.  Dr. Hajo received her PhD from NYU in 2006.  She is the author of several articles on documentary editing, most recently, "The Sustainability of Scholarly Editing in a Digital World," (August 2010, Balisage Pre-conference meeting), "Scholarly Editing in a Web 2.0 World," (Documentary Editing, 2009) and  "Last Words: Documenting the End of Lives," (Documentary Editing, Fall 2006).

In addition to her work with the Sanger Project, she is the author of  Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 (U. of Illinois Press, 2010).  Her students in Creating Digital History have created a Greenwich Village History blog and an Omeka site on Greenwich Village History.