Scott E. Casper
Scott E. Casper is President of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library of American history and culture before 1900. He is the author of Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) and Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (Hill and Wang, 2008); and the co-editor of Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002, with Joanne D. Chaison and Jeffrey D. Groves), A History of the Book in America, Volume III: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007, with Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship), and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2013, with Joan Shelley Rubin). Before joining AAS, he was Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Foundation Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno.