Mary Maillard is a documentary editor from West Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 2013/ 2014, she received an Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship in African American History from the Library Company of Philadelphia to further her research on the 19th C African American archival collection, The Annie Wood Webb Papers, which she discovered in 2012. Her article “‘Faithfully Drawn from Real Life:’ Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends” draws on that research to recover the early biographies of author Frank J. Webb and his mother Louisa Burr (Webb, Darius) and to present evidence that Webb was the mixed race grandson of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. Maillard’s review essay of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep appeared in Black Camera: An International Film Journal in Fall 2017. Her most recent edition, Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle 1879-1911, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2017 (paper 2020).