Adjunct Assistant Professor of History and Associate Editor/Assistant Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers
Research
Documentary editing, U.S. birth control clinics
Professor 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 helped edit three volumes of the Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, the two-series Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, and two digital 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. She was the President of the Association for Documentary Editing (2008-2009) and has written articles on documentary editing, most recently “The Sustainability of the Scholarly Edition in a Digital World,” (August 2010), “Scholarly Editing in a Web 2.0 World,” (Documentary Editing, 2009) and “Last Words: Documenting the End of Lives” (Documentary Editing, 2006).
Dr. Hajo received her PhD from NYU in 2006. She is the author of Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939. (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2010).
Teaching
History in the New Media
Creating Digital History
Selected Publications
Hajo, C. M. 2001. 262 Voluntary Parenthood League. Encyclopedia of Birth Control: 261.
———. 2006. What every woman should know: Birth control clinics in the United States, 1916–1940. Ph.D. New York University.
———. 2010. Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939. Univ. of Illinois Press.
Sanger, M., E. Katz, P. Engelman, C. M. Hajo, and A. V Hubbard. 1995. The Margaret Sanger Papers: Documents from the Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives, Smith College (Series 2). Univ Pubns of Amer.
Sanger, M., E. Katz, P. Engelman, C. M. Hajo, and A. Flanders. 2006. The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Vol. 2, Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939. Univ. of Illinois Pr.
Sanger, M., E. Katz, C. M Hajo, and P. Engelman. 1996. The Margaret Sanger Papers: Collected Documents Series. Univ Pubns of Amer.
———. 2003. The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Vol. 1, The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928. Univ of Illinois Pr.
———. 2010. The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Vol. 3, The Politics of Planned Parenthood, 1939-1966. Univ of Illinois Pr.
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