Catherine Wehrey-Miller
Catherine Wehrey-Miller
Assistant to the Director of Research
Department: Research
626-405-2194
Catherine Wehrey-Miller, the Assistant to the Director of Research, manages Susan Juster’s calendar and controls Research Department budgets. She is responsible for arranging and staffing fellowship peer review committee meetings and for liaising with prospective, incoming and resident research fellows. She handles all research division correspondence and drafts reports for The Huntington Overseers Research and Publications Committee, for The Huntington Board of Trustees, for the National Endowment of the Humanities, and for the numerous donors and foundations who have over the years endowed and supported research fellowships and programs. Catherine also assists the Fellowships and Institutes Administrator with fellowship application procedures, with the processing of J-1 visas, and with the production of research conference brochures. Catherine holds a B.A. in Art History from Occidental College and an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She had ten years' experience working in The Huntington's Reader Services Department before joining the Research Division as Fellowships Administrator in 2016.
Publications
Women Computing the Stars
A piece of women’s history lies deep in the underground stacks of the Huntington Library, among the papers of American astronomer Frederick Hanley Seares (1873–1964). Seares was the head of the computing division at the Pasadena office of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1909 to 1940. His correspondence gives us a glimpse into a select group of women who found employment at an institution known for its pioneering ideas and unparalleled views of the heavens.
What is the Oldest Item in the Library?
This is one of the most common questions asked of the Library staff. The Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer, and first editions of Shakespeare’s plays come to mind when considering famous older items in the Library’s collections. However, not many are aware that The Huntington holds an object dating to 2112 B.C. that depicts a rather mundane event: the sale of a cow.
And the Oscar Went to…
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize might walk the halls of the Huntington Library, but come February the only awards that matter are the Oscars. Luckily, The Huntington has one in its collections.
Happy Birthday, Beethoven
The baptismal certificate of Ludwig van Beethoven is dated Dec. 17, 1770. Since custom dictated that families not wait longer than 24 hours to baptize a newborn, we assume that he began his tumultuous life on Dec. 16, in Bonn, Germany.
Thanksgiving Feasts for the Ages
Green turtle. Jowl with spinach. Coconut cake. Crab à la Mayonnaise. What’s on your Thanksgiving menu? If you and yours celebrated the holiday in late 19th-century California, your table might have buckled under the weight of some of these delicacies alongside more traditional fare like roasted turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, and creamy mashed potatoes.
Hubble and Copernicus
The name Hubble is familiar to most people. It invokes mental images of the Hubble Telescope and its photographs of colorful nebulae in space, but few know details of the life of its namesake…or his cat. Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) was a brilliant scientist who contributed to the study of space with his work at the Mount Wilson Observatory, just minutes from the Huntington Library.
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Women Computing the Stars
Posted on Sept. 8, 2015