Karin Wulf is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director & Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of women, family, gender, and politics in (vast) early America, she writes for public and academic audiences about history, the humanities, and scholarly communications. Her book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is also writing Genealogy: A Very Short Introduction for OUP.