Carl Van Ness

Carl Van Ness is the Curator of the Manuscripts & Archives Department in the University of Florida Libraries' Special & Area Studies Collections and was appointed the University Historian for the University of Florida in 2006.^[1] He followed the former university historian, Sam Proctor.

Carl Van Ness
Van Ness in 2006
Nationality	American
Known for	Being the University of Florida archivist
Scientific career
Fields	Library Science
Institutions	University of Florida

Prior to this position, Van Ness served as the University of Florida archivist from 1996 to 2006 and worked for the George A. Smathers Libraries.^[2]

Van Ness authored The Making of Florida’s Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, published in 2023, in which he "traces the development of the schools that later became the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A&M University."^[3]