Publications, blog posts, interviews...
Samples of My Writing and Speaking
Empowering Women in Educational Leadership: Bridging Communities through History, Arts, and Education, October 2024.
Museums and Change Presentation: Finding Your Museum's Civic Mission, (Passcode: ue*v3j*5), September 2024.
Every Museum Needs a Civic Strategy. Here's How to Find Yours, American Alliance of Museums Blog. July 2024.
Monticello as a Civic Engine, Panel Discussion at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, May 4, 2024.
Thinking Historically About... the State of Social Studies Education, February 2024
Thinking Nation's podcast, hosted by Zach Coté, interviewed me along with Elizabeth Grant from the Liberty Museum to discuss the role of museums in history education.
"Evaluation: Measuring Impact," in Bringing Teachers to the History Museum: A Guide to Facilitating Teacher Professional Development, Lora Cooper, Linnea Grim, and Gary Sandling, eds. (2022) Rowman & Littlefield / American Alliance of Museums.
Co-Author, "Shared Authority: School and Museum Partnerships for the 21st Century," in Museum Education for Today's Audiences: Meeting Expectations with New Models, Jason L. Porter and Mary Kay Cunningham, eds. (2022) Rowman & Littlefield / American Alliance of Museums.
Podtextualizing the Past Traveling through the 1820's, September 2022
Historian Susan Stanfield interviewed me about my great-great grandmother's travel diary documenting her tourist trip from Baltimore to Niagara Falls and Saratoga Springs, NY in 1824, using an early travel guide.
Co-Author, "Memorializing Lincoln's life where he died," in Affective Architectures: More-than-Representational Geographies of Heritage, Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas and Angela M. Person, eds. (2021) Routledge.
Co-Author, "An Infinite Loop: Democracy, Museums, and Rapid Response," (2021) MASS Action Blog.
Author, "The Personal is Professional: Reckoning with Slavers in the Family," (2019) AASLH Blog.
Co-Author, "Connecting Theory and Practice: Using Place-based Learning in Teacher Professional Development," Journal of Museum Education (May 2019)
teaching
Interpreting House Museums and Historic Sites, George Washington University
Fall 2024: I taught a graduate seminar on interpreting historic sites and house museums for the George Washington University Museum Studies program. My approach to the course asked students to consider whether and why a site should continue to be stewarded for public visitation. If not, what would make it so? For their final projects, students worked in small groups to create a detailed proposal for an interpretive plan reimagining one of the historic sites we visited during the course, including the Petersen House at Ford's Theatre, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Tudor Place Historic House and Gardens, Arlington House, and President Lincoln's Cottage. Guest lecturers included the staff of the Surratt House Museum and Kimberly Robinson, who curated the Arlington House reinterpretation. Course Syllabus