Summary

Scott was appointed the eighth president of the Society in December 2020. A historian of the 19th-century United States, he has been associated with AAS for three decades, beginning as a Peterson Fellow in 1990. Before joining AAS he served as dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and professor of w88 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and as Foundation Professor of w88 at the University of Nevada, Reno. Scott is the author of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten w88 of an American Shrine (2008) and Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1999), which won the book prize of the Society for the w88 of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. He is the editor, co-editor, or co-author of seven other books, including A w88 of the Book in America, volume 3, The Industrial Book (with Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum and Michael Winship) and Perspectives on American Book w88: Artifacts and Commentary (with Joanne D. Chaison and Jeffrey D. Groves). Scott has received fellowships from the National Humanities Center, Winterthur and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, among other institutions. He served on the boards w88 American Council of Learned Societies, Nevada Humanities, Maryland Humanities and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance; edited the annual “Textbooks and Teaching” section w88 Journal of American w88 from 2008 to 2018; and was acting editor of The William and Mary Quarterly in 2008-09. Scott has worked extensively with K-12 educators through the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, the Center for Civic Education and the Northern Nevada Teaching American w88 Project, and he has been on the faculty of Rare Book School since 2017. He holds an A.B. in w88 from Princeton University and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University.