Partners & Advisors

Historic Huguenot Street (HHS)
Josephine Bloodgood, Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs (Project Director)
Donna Dixon, Digital Librarian and Project Manager
Beth Patkus, Archivist & Librarian

Haviland Heidgerd Historical Collection (HHHC), Elting Memorial Library
Carol Johnson, Coordinator
Margaret Stanne, Collections Manager

Town of New Paltz (TONP)
Neil Bettez, Town Supervisor (through May 3, 2024)
Rosanna Mazzaccari Rosenkranse, Town Clerk

Reformed Church of New Paltz (RCNP)
Ann Zaccheo-Phillips, Senior Elder (through May 2024)
Rev. Aaron Schulte

Special thanks to Jen Palmentiero, Digital Services Manager, and the team at the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, for their ongoing technical advice and support, and to Lee Price, former Director of Development, and the team of conservators and digital imaging staff at the Conservation for Art & Historic Artifacts. Thanks also to Carrie Allmendinger (former HHS Archivist & Librarian), Kevin Cook (former RCNP Archivist), and Rev. Mark Mast (former RCNP Pastor) for their efforts and support in the early stages of this project.

Advisory Committee (2024-27)

Myra Young Armstead, Ph.D., Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edward Professor of Historical Studies and Senior Adviser to the President, Bard College

Leslie Choquette, Ph.D., Professor of History, Côté Professor of French Studies, and Director of the French Institute, Assumption University

Meg Devlin, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, State University of New York at New Paltz

Firth H. Fabend, Ph.D., Historian and author, Fellow of the Holland Society of New York, President of the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York, and past President of the Huguenot Society of America

Florence Gasparini, Ph.D. candidate, American History, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes, Saint-Denis, France

Deborah Hamer, Ph.D., Executive Director, the New Netherland Institute

Kate Hymes, Cave Canem Fellow and Poet and Vice-President, Board of Trustees,
Margaret Wade-Lewis Center for Black History and Culture

Jaap Jacob, Ph.D., Author and Honorary Reader in History, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wim Klooster, Ph.D., Professor & Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations, Clark University

Andrea C. Mosterman, Ph.D., Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Department of History and Philosophy, University of New Orleans

Cyrus Mulready, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz

Lavada Nahon, Cultural and Culinary Historian of African and African descendant history in the 17th-19th centuries

Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Programs Analyst, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

L.H. Roper, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York at New Paltz

Reynolds Scott-Childress, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at New Paltz

Kenneth Shefsiek, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington

David William Voorhees, Ph.D., Director, Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History

Advisory Committee (2021-24)

James H. Merrell, Ph.D., Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History Emeritus, Vassar College (Committee Chair)

Myra Young Armstead, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Inclusive Excellence; Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, Bard College

Leslie Choquette, Ph.D., Professor of History, Côté Professor of French Studies, and Director of the French Institute, Assumption University

Bonney Hartley, Tribal Historic Preservation Manager, Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohicans

Jaap Jacobs, Ph.D., Author and Honorary Reader in History, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wim Klooster, Ph.D., Professor & Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations, Clark University

Dennis Maika, Ph.D., Senior Historian and Education Director, New Netherland Institute

Cyrus Mulready, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz

Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Programs Analyst, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation

L.H. Roper, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York at New Paltz

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Ph.D., Professor, American History, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes, Saint-Denis, France

David William Voorhees, Ph.D., Director, Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History