Dr. Kathryn James

Biography

Kathryn James is a Lecturer in Legal Research and Rare Book Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. She served as a bibliographer at the University of Cambridge and was the James Munby Fellow at Darwin College. Prior to her current role, Kathryn worked as the Curator of Early Modern British & European Collections at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library starting in 2005. She is the author of 'English Paleography: Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800', published by Beinecke Library & Yale University Press in 2020. Kathryn holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and both a D.Phil. and M.Sc. from the University of Oxford. She also earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1993. Kathryn's work focuses on pastoral and historical research methodologies related to rare books and their cultural significance.

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