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ellen H Abels
Ellen is recently retired after a long and distinguished career as a senior attorney for the Justice Department. She studied medieval history at Barnard College as an undergraduate, and earned a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. Under her maiden name, Ellen Harrison, she co-authored with Richard a pathbreaking article that applied statistical analysis to the study of Inquisitorial records: "The Participation of Women in Languedocian Catharism," Mediaeval Studies (1979).