Julie L. Holcomb is professor of museum studies at Baylor University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in museum, library, and archival collections management; collections ethics; and book history. Holcomb’s research interests include Quakers, abolition, and the Civil War as well as library, archival, and museum collections. She has written three books, most recently Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy (Cornell University Press, 2016) and Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). Holcomb’s work has also appeared in academic journals, edited collections, and online publications. She has held faculty research fellowships at Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Emancipation. Holcomb also serves as editor of Quaker History, the scholarly publication of the Friends Historical Association. She is at work on a biography of nineteenth-century Quaker reformer George W. Taylor.
