Katy Telling is an historian of the family, household authority, and Quakers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century American South. She received both her PhD (2025) and MA (2019) in History from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is currently the Postdoc 2026 Coordinator at the John Carter Brown Library. Telling serves as a board member of the Friends Historical Association and as the Productions Editor for Commonplace Journal.