Tara Wood

Instruction Archivist

Special Collections & Archives
Collections & Discovery
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Contact

864-656-3214 tswood2@clemson.edu Strom Thurmond Institute 112


Education

Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2008
MLS, Indiana University, 2015
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1986


Research Interests

Social Media Use in Special Collections and Archives; European History; British Isles, 1000-1500; Print Culture/History of the Book; Digital Methods; Gender, Women, and Sexuality


Academic Profile

Tara S. Wood is a historian and rare books and manuscripts librarian. Her research focuses on the intersections between early modern print culture and women’s history. In addition to using traditional archival research, Dr. Wood employs digital methods such as network analysis, to uncover the often-hidden contributions of women in shaping the book trade in early modern London. A current project seeks to utilize textual analysis algorithms to examine printed funeral sermons of seventeenth-century women in London. She was selected one of 15 fellows for an international, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, “Early Modern Digital Agendas Institute” in 2017 & 2018. Dr. Wood teaches courses on England, witchcraft & heresy, medieval Europe, and women’s history.


Selected Professional Works

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

“Anne Askew” and “Diana Primrose” encyclopedia entries in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. ABC-CLIO, Inc. 2006.

“Funeral Orations and Sermons” encyclopedia entry, co-authored with Retha Warnicke, The Encyclopedia of Death and Dyiing. Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.

Digital Works, Videos, CDs & DVDs, Software (Published)

Co-Editor with Benjamin Ray: Salem Witchcraft Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. 2003. Transcription project online at University of Virginia: http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/transcripts.html