Katherine J. Adams

Katherine J. Adams served from 1981 to 2002 as associate director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Her responsibilities included collection development, publications, and administration of Winedale, a complex of historic structures and modern educational facilities located in rural south-central Texas. She helped establish the Center's Winedale Regional Center for the Quilt. Kate has lectured and published on southern women's history, printed ephemera, and library history; she is co-editor of and a contributor to Inside the Natchez Trace Collection: New Sources for Southern History (1999). She held an editorial fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Press, and she received training in archival administration at the National Archives. She holds an MA in history from the University of Oklahoma and an MA in library science from the University of Texas. Kate retired in December 2001 and is currently busy gardening, swimming, reading, and being a novice quilter. She and her husband David own an Alaskan truck camper and travel often.