The Vermont Historical Society recently welcomed four new members to its staff — Katie Grant, collections manager; Gail Wiese, access librarian; Scott Sorrell, program assistant; and Nick Brown, 2024 educational intern.
Grant joins the VHS from Vanderbilt University, where she served as project archivist for the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. In her new role, she will oversee the historical society's object collections housed at the Vermont History Center in Barre. Grant is a graduate of Tufts University and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, a two-year master's program run in conjunction with the Winterthur Museum and the University of Delaware.
Wiese comes to the VHS from Norwich University, where she worked in the archives and special collections library. In her new role, she will play a central role in providing public access to the historical society’s varied research collections through cataloging, digitization and building relationships with educators and scholars.
Sorrell recently retired from Randolph Union High School after a 21-year career as a middle school and high school teacher. In his position at VHS, he will assist educational programming at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
Brown, a graduate student in history at the University of Vermont, will help support VHS’s educational programming at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.