Eric White
Eric Marshall White, Ph.D., Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, came to Princeton University Library in fall 2015. He served as Princeton’s Curator of Rare Books for five years, building on 18 years of experience as Curator of Special Collections at Southern Methodist University’s Bridwell Library in Dallas. He was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, earned his doctorate in Art History from Boston University, and later received a master of library science degree from the University of North Texas. He is a leader in the study of early European printed books, and the material and historical evidence of their use and survival. His publications include Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible (2017), which won SHARP’s DeLong Prize as the year’s outstanding book in the field of book history; major exhibition catalogs; and more than 50 scholarly articles. With Paul Needham, retired Scheide Librarian, White is preparing a groundbreaking catalog, based on Princeton’s landmark 2019 exhibition “Gutenberg & After.”