• Guest Editor's and Editor's Notes
• Katherine Grandjean (bio) and Marion Rust

I confess I have no idea how to write this note.

It is January 2021. Two days ago, I learned of the death of Sarah Schuetze. She was a gifted scholar and teacher, much beloved by many people. But she was much more than that, to me. She was my friend, my guide, my sister.

We met as fellows at American Antiquarian Society. I loved her immediately. She was funny and warm and snarky. She took notes by hand, in fat spiral notebooks. We sat across from each other in the reading room for months, interrupting each other, passing notes. "Finding a new friend is so funny," she said to me once. "It's kind of like falling in love." And it was.

Her work was about disease, and she could tell you gnarly things about syphilis and typhoid and scurvy. She loved writing. She wrote expansively and fearlessly. She wrote long meditations on things, on texts, confident that she would find the way, and she usually did. She gave excellent advice. She listened endlessly to my research dilemmas, and she generally had very little patience for my insecurities, which helped me, always.

This issue was her idea. When she told me she wanted to do this, and that she wanted me to coedit with her, I was reluctant. I knew it would be a lot of work. But Sarah's enthusiasm for things was irresistible. She liked to try new projects. Building things. Planting roses. Layer cakes from scratch. She took things on wholeheartedly, without betraying an ounce of reservation. She once threw herself a raccoon baby shower, to collect necessaries for the baby raccoons she was fostering. There was even a registry.

So I said yes. And it was not easy. But this issue is a testament to her and to our friendship. It is surreal to think that she won't see it in print. The past year has been full of disruption and shock. But her death, to me, is the cruelest interruption of all. Words fail. [End Page 1]

I am grateful to Sarah Schuetze, Katherine Grandjean, Linda Coombs, and the many anonymous readers who made this special issue possible.

And with this first issue of the calendar year, thanks are due to several EAL editorial board members who conclude their five-year terms with volume 55: Matt Cohen (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Paul Downes (University of Toronto), Gene Andrew Jarrett (New York University), Meredith Neuman (Clark University), and Christopher Phillips (Lafayette College). As a field, we owe you a debt of gratitude for your acumen and your generosity of spirit. I would also like to welcome our new board members: Wendy Bellion (University of Delaware), Lisa Brooks (Amherst College), Sarah Chinn (Hunter College, CUNY), Andrew Newman (Stony Brook University), and Derrick Spires (Cornell University). Thank you in advance for the unique contributions each of you are prepared to make. I look forward to working with you. [End Page 2]

katherine grandjean is an associate professor of history at Wellesley College. She is the author of American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England (Harvard UP, 2015). Her essays have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Early American Studies, and her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and others. She is currently working on a new book about the violent legacies of the American Revolution.

• 客座编者和编者注
• 凯瑟琳·格兰德（生物）和玛莉恩·鲁斯特

我承认我不知道如何写这篇笔记。

现在是2021年1月。两天前，我听说了萨拉·舒兹（Sarah Schuetze）的去世。她是一位天才的学者和老师，受到很多人的喜爱。但是对我来说，她远不止于此。她是我的朋友，我的向导，我的妹妹。

我们在美国古生物学会上见过面。我立即爱她。她很幽默，热情而狡猾。她在厚厚的螺旋笔记本上手工记笔记。我们在阅览室里坐了几个月，彼此打扰，通过笔记。“找一个新朋友真是有趣，”她曾经对我说。“这有点像坠入爱河。” 是的。

她的工作是关于疾病的，她可能会告诉您有关梅毒，伤寒和坏血病的一些令人毛骨悚然的事情。她喜欢写作。她写得笔挺而无所畏惧。她对事物，文字进行了长时间的冥想，并确信自己会找到方法，而且她通常会这样做。她给了很好的建议。她无休止地倾听了我的研究难题，并且对我的不安全感通常没有什么耐心，这总是对我有帮助。

这个问题是她的主意。当她告诉我她想这样做，并且想让我与她共同编辑时，我很不情愿。我知道这将需要大量工作。但是莎拉对事物的热情是不可抗拒的。她喜欢尝试新项目。建造东西。种植玫瑰。从头开始夹层蛋糕。她全心全意地对待事情，没有背叛一点保留。她曾经自己给浣熊婴儿洗澡，以收集她所养婴儿浣熊的必需品。甚至有一个注册表。

所以我说是的。而且这并不容易。但是这个问题证明了她和我们的友谊。认为她不会看到印刷版是超现实的。过去的一年充满了混乱和震惊。但是对我来说，她的死是所有人中最残酷的中断。言语失败。[结束页1]

我感谢Sarah Schuetze，Katherine Grandjean，Linda Coombs，以及许多匿名读者，他们使这一特殊问题成为可能。

在本日历年的第一期中，感谢EAL编辑委员会的一些成员，他们以第55卷结束了他们的五年任期：Matt Cohen（内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校），Paul Downes（多伦多大学），Gene Andrew Jarrett（纽约大学），Meredith Neuman（克拉克大学）和Christopher Phillips（拉斐特学院）。作为一个领域，我们欠您感激之情和慷慨大度的感激之情。我还想欢迎我们的新董事会成员：Wendy Bellion（特拉华大学），Lisa Brooks（阿默斯特学院），Sarah Chinn（亨特学院，CUNY），Andrew Newman（石溪大学）和Derrick Spiers（康奈尔大学） 。预先感谢你们每个人准备做出的独特贡献。我期待着与您合作。[结束页2]

凯瑟琳·格兰让（Katherine Grandjean）是韦尔斯利学院（Wellesley College）历史副教授。她是《美国通道：新英格兰早期的通讯前沿》（哈佛大学出版社，2015年）的作者。她的论文发表在《威廉和玛丽季刊》，《美国季刊》和《美国早期研究》上，并获得了美国学术协会理事会，美国国家人文基金会，美国古人类学会，麻萨诸塞州历史学会的支持，美国哲学会等。她目前正在写一本关于美国革命暴力遗产的新书。