{"id":131,"date":"2013-08-27T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:05:56","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master of Architecture, Temple University, 2029 (expected).<\/p>\n<p>M.A. &amp; PhD, American Studies, The College of William &amp; Mary, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Dissertation: \u201cBirthing Washington: Objects, Memory, and the Creation of a National Monument;\u201d Scott R. Nelson (Chair), Barbara Carson, Cary Carson, Arthur Knight, Patricia West<\/p>\n<p>Exam Fields: U.S. History, Colonial to present (primary); Material Culture; Object Theory<\/p>\n<p>BA with highest distinction, American Studies and History, Minor in Pennsylvania Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACADEMIC POSITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Temple University, Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Professor of History, 2023 to present.<\/li>\n<li>Affiliated Faculty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.temple.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/documentary-arts-and-ethnographic-research-certificate-graduate-ca-daer-grad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program in Documentary Arts and Ethnographic Practice<\/a>, School of Theater, Film, and Media, 2019 to present.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor of History, 2013 to present.<\/li>\n<li>Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/centerforpublichistory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Public History<\/a>, 2008-15; 2018 to present.<\/li>\n<li>National Park Service Special Projects Coordinator, University College, 2015-17.<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, 2008-13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metropolitan Community College &#8211; Maple Woods, Kansas City, MO, History Instructor and Public History Coordinator, 2005-08<\/p>\n<p>Germanna Community College, Fredericksburg, VA, History Adjunct Instructor, Spring 2005<\/p>\n<p>College of William &amp; Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Teaching Fellow, Spring 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH POSITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashby M. Larmore Research Fellow, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD, 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. National Park Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Administrative Historian, Boston National Historical Park, 2015-20.<\/li>\n<li>Administrative Historian, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, 2003-06<\/li>\n<li>Historian, Historic American Engineering Record, Montgomery, AL, Summer 1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Jamestown, VA, Research Fellow, October 1999 to May 2000<\/p>\n<p>Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, Washington, DC, Intern and Research Assistant, Summer 1995<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ships in Bottles: A History of American Maritime Preservation <\/em>(manuscript in progress).<\/p>\n<p><em>Of Men and Yachts: Manhood and Toxicity in the Age of Global Capital<\/em> (manuscript in progress).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umasspress.com\/9781625346230\/lost-on-the-freedom-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston<\/em><\/a> (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). A volume in the <em>Public History in Historical Perspective<\/em> series. Selected for Winter 2023 Editor\u2019s Choice Award by the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, and recipient of the 2023 Society for History in Federal Government Book Award<\/p>\n<p>Ed<em>., <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781442279186\/Commemoration-The-American-Association-for-State-and-Local-History-Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Association for State and Local History Guide to Commemoration <\/a><\/em>(Lanham, MD: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, October 2017). Listed as \u201crecommended reading for public history courses\u201d in 2020 by the National Council on Public History (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb433o83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb433o83<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Ed<em>., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umasspress.com\/9781558499386\/born-in-the-u-s-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Born in the USA: Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory<\/a><\/em> (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).\u00a0 An edited volume in the Public History in Historical Perspective series. Listed as \u201crecommended reading for public history courses\u201d in 2020 by the National Council on Public History (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb433o83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb433o83<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820331782\/here-george-washington-was-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Here, George Washington was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument <\/em><\/a>(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008).\u00a0 Listed as \u201crecommended reading for public history courses\u201d in 2011 by the National Council on Public History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOURNAL ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com\/a-50-foot-oyster-shell-the-bay-bridge-watermens-monument-that-almost-was\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA 50-Foot Oyster Shell? The Bay Bridge Watermen\u2019s Monument That Almost Was,\u201d<\/a> <em>Chesapeake Bay Magazine<\/em> (June 5, 2025).<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.org\/publications\/pmhb-january-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c\u201cSave the <em>Olympia<\/em>!\u201d: Preserving Dewey\u2019s Flagship in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,\u201d<\/a> <em>The<\/em> <em>Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> 143:1 (January 2019), 56-101.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.ucpress.edu\/tph\/article\/38\/4\/190\/90852\/NPS-History-101Toward-Training-a-New-Generation-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cNPS History 101: Toward Training a New Generation of Advocates,\u201d<\/a> <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 38:4 (November 2016), 190-205.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/1936981615Z.00000000049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA Most Complete Whaling Museum\u201d: Profiting from the Past on Nantucket Island,\u201d<\/a> <em>Museum History Journal<\/em> 8:2 (July 2015), 188-208.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5215\/pennmaghistbio.139.1.0003#metadata_info_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA Century of Teaching with Pennsylvania\u2019s Historic Places,\u201d<\/a> special joint issue of the <em>Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography <\/em>139:1, and <em>Pennsylvania History<\/em> 82:1 (January 2015): 3-21.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/labor\/article\/9\/2\/133\/15487\/The-New-Labor-History-Museum-A-Status-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe New Labor History Museum: A Status Report,\u201d<\/a> which introduces a museum review section that I edited for <em>Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas<\/em> 9 (2012): 133-49.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/radical-history-review\/article\/2012\/113\/171\/79037\/Reforming-the-Carceral-PastEastern-State\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cReforming the Carceral Past: Eastern State Penitentiary and the Challenge of Twenty-First-Century Prison Museums,\u201d<\/a> <em>Radical History Review<\/em> 113 (Spring 2012): 171-86.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41059424#metadata_info_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Shenandoah River Gundalow: Reusable Boats in Virginia\u2019s Nineteenth-Century River Trade<\/a>,\u201d <em>Virginia Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> 118 (December 2010): 314-49.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Washington\u2019s Birthplace and the Curious Case of \u2018Building X,\u2019\u201d <em>Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine<\/em> 55 (December 2005): 6599-6613.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27774099#metadata_info_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPennsylvania Boatbuilding: Charting a State Tradition,\u201d<\/a> <em>Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies<\/em> 65 (Spring 1998): 170-89.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK CHAPTERS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/book\/27764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMore than Ordinary Patriotism: Living History in the Memory Work of George Washington Parke Custis,\u201d<\/a> in Robert Aldrich, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Clare Corbould, Michael A. McDonnell, eds., <em>Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War<\/em> (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013): 127-43.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REFERENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemorials and Monuments,\u201d in Modupe Labode, Bob Weible, and Will Walker, eds., <em>The Inclusive Historian\u2019s Handbook<\/em> (Co-sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH), 2019), <a href=\"https:\/\/inclusivehistorian.com\/memorials-and-monuments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/inclusivehistorian.com\/memorials-and-monuments\/<\/a>. Reprinted in <em>Parks Stewardship Forum<\/em> 36:3 (September 2020): 465-70.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational Parks,\u201d <em>The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia<\/em>, Charlene Mires, Howard Gillette, and Randall Miller, eds. (Camden, NJ: Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University-Camden, 2015), <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/national-parks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/national-parks\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/acref\/9780199764358.001.0001\/acref-9780199764358-e-550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPublic History,\u201d<\/a> <em>Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History<\/em>, Paul Boyer, Scott Casper, and Joan Shelley Rubin, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNPUBLISHED REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrails to Freedom: An Administrative History of Boston National Historical Park,\u201d prepared for the National Park Service, U.S Department of the Interior, Northeast Region History Program, under cooperative agreement with the Organization of American Historians (2019).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisualizing the Past: William F. Macy and the Nantucket Historical Association,\u201d research paper (24 pp) prepared for the Nantucket Historical Association, September 2013 (NHA Library call# RP 141).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToward a History of Toeing the Line at Boston National Historical Park,\u201d site review solicited by the National Park Service and Organization of American Historians, August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSS Olympia Summit Report,\u201d with Carly Goodman on behalf of the Temple University Center for Public History, commissioned by the Independence Seaport Museum, August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Harry S Truman Birthplace Statement of National Significance, Draft Peer Review, solicited by National Park Service and Organization of American Historians, December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThinking <em>About<\/em> Memory at Minute Man National Historical Park,\u201d site review solicited by the National Park Service and Organization of American Historians, December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdministrative History of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument,\u201d (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2006).<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPINION AND MISCELLANEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Crisis of Trust in the Classroom,\u201d <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> (January 14, 2025), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/views\/2025\/01\/14\/crisis-trust-classroom-opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/views\/2025\/01\/14\/crisis-trust-classroom-opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen History Tourism Puts Profit Before the Past,\u201d <em>TIME<\/em> (August 1, 2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6998433\/freedoms-trail-boston-history-tourism\/\">https:\/\/time.com\/6998433\/freedoms-trail-boston-history-tourism\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching Historians with Tools: Toward a Subversive Pedagogy,\u201d <em>Decorating Dissidence<\/em>, Issue 15: Tools, Use, Mastery (July 1, 2022), <a href=\"https:\/\/decoratingdissidence.com\/2022\/07\/01\/teaching-historians-with-tools-toward-a-subversive-pedagogy\/\">https:\/\/decoratingdissidence.com\/2022\/07\/01\/teaching-historians-with-tools-toward-a-subversive-pedagogy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReimagining Teaching,\u201d <em>The Temple University Faculty Herald<\/em> (June 2022): 10-11, <a href=\"https:\/\/facultysenate.temple.edu\/sites\/facultysenate\/files\/2022JUNETUFacultyHerald01.pdf\">https:\/\/facultysenate.temple.edu\/sites\/facultysenate\/files\/2022JUNETUFacultyHerald01.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA New Future for History in the National Park Service,\u201d <em>Cross Ties: News and Insights for Humanities Professionals<\/em>, newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University-Camden 8:6 (Nov\/Dec 2013).<\/p>\n<p>With Mary Rizzo, \u201cCollegial Questioning: A New Forum on History in the US National Park Service (Part 2),\u201d <em>History@Work: A Public History Commons from the National Council on Public History<\/em>, 25 November 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/publichistorycommons.org\/march-nps-forum-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/publichistorycommons.org\/march-nps-forum-part-2\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo-and-So Born Here, So What?,\u201d <em>Historic House Museums: The Newsletter of the American Association for State and Local Historians House Museum Affinity Group<\/em> (May 2013),\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynewsletterbuilder.com\/email\/newsletter\/1411734135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.mynewsletterbuilder.com\/email\/newsletter\/1411734135<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Charlene Mires and Robert Kodosky, \u201cBuilding a Public History Community in Philadelphia,\u201d <em>Public History News<\/em> 31:4 (September\/October 2011), 5-6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibilities for Public History in Community Colleges,\u201d <em>Public History News<\/em> 28:4 (September 2008), 12-13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Build on a Cherry-Tree Myth\u2014Again,\u201d Fredericksburg <em>Free Lance-Star<\/em> (25 July 2008), A7 [reprinted in \u201cRoundup: Talking About History,\u201d History News Network, <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/52782.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/52782.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pennsylvania Boatbuilders Project: Shaping a Tradition,&#8221; in Robert D. Yearout, ed., <em>Proceedings, Tenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research,<\/em> Volume I (Asheville: The University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1996), pp. 101-05.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoatbuilding Documentation in the Archive of Folk Culture\u201d (finding aid), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Dennis, <em>American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory<\/em> (2023), in the <em>Journal of the Early Republic<\/em> 44:1 (2024), 150-153.<\/p>\n<p>Clarissa J. Ceglio, <em>A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums<\/em> (2022), in The Public Historian 46:1 (2024),199-201.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Waterman, <em>National Geographic Atlas of the National Parks<\/em> (2019), in <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 42 (August 2020), 162-64.<\/p>\n<p>Roger C. Aden, <em>Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President&#8217;s House at Independence National Historic Park, and Public Memory<\/em> (2014), in <em>The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> 141 (April 2017), 203-204.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Swigger, <em>\u201cHistory is Bunk\u201d: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford\u2019s Greenfield Village<\/em> (2014), in <em>Winterthur Portfolio<\/em> 50:1 (Spring 2016), 91-92.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Kitch, <em>Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past <\/em>(2012), in <em>The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> 137 (April 2013), 219-20.<\/p>\n<p>Erika Doss, <em>Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America<\/em> (2010), in <em>The American Historical Review<\/em> 117 (April 2012), 568-69.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Lengel, <em>Inventing George Washington: America\u2019s Founder, in Myth and Memory<\/em> (2011), in the <em>Journal of American History<\/em> 98 (December 2011), 819.<\/p>\n<p>Gary B. Nash, <em>The Liberty Bell<\/em> (2010)<em>,<\/em> in <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 33 (February 2011), 105-7.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Packer, <em>Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship<\/em> (2008) and David Blanke, <em>Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America\u2019s Car Culture, 1900-1940<\/em> (2007) in <em>American Studies<\/em> 50 (Spring\/Summer 2010), 196-97.<\/p>\n<p>Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller, <em>Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) in <em>Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies<\/em> 76 (Summer 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Mark B. Sandberg, <em>Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity<\/em> (2003) in <em>Pioneer America Society Transactions (P.A.S.T.)<\/em> 28 (2005), 28-31.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUSEUM AND EXHIBIT REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s House, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA, in the <em>Journal of American History<\/em> 100 (June 2013): 155-58.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America,\u201d National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, March 4 &#8211; August 21, 2011, in <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 33:4 (November 2011): 142-44.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea,\u201d <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 31:4 (Fall 2009): 128-31.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLOGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bygone Object<\/em>, June 2008 to present, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>National Council on Public History, <em>Off the Wall: Critical Reviews of History Exhibit Practice in an Age of Ubiquitous Display<\/em>(conversant, 2010-11), <a href=\"http:\/\/ncphoffthewall.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/ncphoffthewall.blogspot.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TEACHING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:<\/strong> U.S. Cultural History, Material Culture, Museum and Memory Studies, Public History<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undergraduate Courses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Historian\u2019s Craft<\/li>\n<li>History of the National Park Service<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/temple-news.com\/new-history-course-focuses-heritage-interpretation\/\">Introduction to Heritage Interpretation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Road: Mobility and Memory in American Lives<\/li>\n<li>Retro America: Historical Simulation in the United States<\/li>\n<li>American Memory and Commemoration<\/li>\n<li>Museums and American Culture<\/li>\n<li>Tourism in America<\/li>\n<li>American Revolutions<\/li>\n<li>Reading Culture<\/li>\n<li>Cold War Culture<\/li>\n<li>US History I and II<\/li>\n<li>Fieldwork in History (internship)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graduate Courses:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Managing History: Introduction to Public History<\/li>\n<li>Studies in American Material Culture<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to American History I<\/li>\n<li>The Public History Practicum<\/li>\n<li>The Historian and Society (internship)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ADVISING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guerrero, Anthony, \u201cForgotten Lessons: The Creation of U.S. Military Memory of the 1965 Dominican Intervention,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in history in progress (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Dostie, Donald, \u201cPrivate Matter, Public Good: Urban Privies, Social Anxieties, and the Remaking of Philadelphia, 1793-1854,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in history in progress (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Gruber, Abigail, \u201cMemory\u2019s Handmaids: The National Society of Colonial Dames &amp; the Politics of Historic Preservation in Philadelphia,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in history in progress (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Dabek, Dana, \u201cThe Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in Public Interpretations of U.S. Women\u2019s History<strong>,\u201d <\/strong>Temple University Klein College of Media and Communications, PhD in Media and Communications in progress (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Claire Herhold, \u201cIn Search of an Authentic Past: Negotiating Authenticity in Living History Interpretation,\u201d Western Michigan University, Department of History, PhD in History in progress (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Gary Scales, \u201cSensory Service Stations: Gasoline Retailing and the Making of Neurocapitalism,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in history defended May 2024 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, \u201cThe Power of Losing Control: Deconstructing Elfreth\u2019s Alley Documentary Archive-Based Aesthetics Using Image-Making Experimentation,\u201d Temple University School of Theater, Film and Media Arts, PhD in Documentary Arts and Visual Research defended November 2022 (committee).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rooney, Shannon McLaughlin, \u201cMemory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia Move Bombing,\u201d Temple University, Department of Journalism, PhD in Journalism defended October 2020 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Devin Manzullo-Thomas, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umasspress.com\/9781625346513\/exhibiting-evangelicalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration, Conservative Christianity, and Religion\u2019s Presence of the Past<\/a>,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in history defended April 2020 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Minju Bae, \u201cOne Rise, One Fall: Labor Organizing in New York\u2019s Asian Communities, 1970s to the Present,\u201d Temple University, History Department, PhD in History defended March 2020 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Lucas J. Scheaffer, \u201cDamming the American Imagination,\u201d Temple University, English Department, PhD in English defended April 2019 (outside reader).<\/p>\n<p>Stephen R. Hausmann, \u201cInventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills Region, 1851-1981,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, PhD in History defended March 2019 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Beugoms, \u201cThe Logistics of the United States Army, 1812-1821,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, PhD in History defended December 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Keri J. Sansevere, \u201c\u201dAnything but White\u201d: Excavating the Story of Northeastern Colonoware,\u201d Temple University, Department of Anthropology, Ph.D in Anthropology defended December 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Levi Fox, \u201cNot Forgotten: The Korean War in American Public Memory, 1950-2017,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, PhD in history defended April 2018 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>John Crider, \u201cPrinting Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, PhD in History defended March 2017 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Simpson, Jenna Anne, \u201cLiving in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem,\u201d College of William &amp; Mary, American Studies, PhD defended June 20, 2016 (outside reader).<\/p>\n<p>Deirdre Kelleher, \u201cImmigration, Identity, and Ethnicity: The Urban Archaeology of Elfreth\u2019s Alley, Philadelphia,\u201d Temple University Department of Anthropology, PhD dissertation defended May 26, 2015 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Anne C. Reilly, \u201cBirthplaces of a Nation: Public Commemorations of American Origins in the Early Twentieth Century,\u201d University of Delaware, Department of History, PhD dissertation defended March 26, 2015 (outside reader).<\/p>\n<p>Kelly C. George, \u201cThe Birth of a Haunted \u201cAsylum\u201d: Public Memory and Community Storytelling,\u201d Temple University School of Media and Communications, PhD Dissertation defended November 2013 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Laura Macbride, \u201cDigging up Interest in the Past: An Evaluation of Public Archaeology at Graeme Park with an Approach for Future Interpretation,\u201d Temple University, Department of Anthropology, PhD dissertation defended November 2013 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Nepa, \u201cRestaurant-led development\u201d in Postindustrial Philadelphia, 1945-2005,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, PhD dissertation defended April 2012 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hunter, \u201cLiberation in White and Black,\u201d Temple University, Department of Religion, PhD dissertation defended August 2010 (outside reader).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MFA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laurie Robins, \u201cCampus,\u201d Temple University, School of Theater, Film and Media Arts, MFA in Film and Media Arts defended May 2024 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>William Blake, \u201cA Grand Review,\u201d Temple University, Tyler School of Art, MFA in painting defended April 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Nemazie, \u201cFacilitating Stakeholder Discussion to Create Ever Changing monuments that Represent Present Day Communities,\u201d The University of the Arts, Department of Museum Studies, MFA theses defended April 2018 (reader).<\/p>\n<p>Charlette Hove, \u201cUntitled\u201d: Observing Access Portals in Contemporary Art Museums,\u201d The University of the Arts, Department of Museum Studies, MFA theses defended May 2016 (defense chair).<\/p>\n<p>Meaghan A. Gorman, \u201cAdding to History: The Potential of Special Events to Support Missions in Historic House Museums,\u201d The University of the Arts, MFA Program in Museum Exhibition, Planning, and Design, MFA thesis defended May 2015 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Klein and Renee Wasser, \u201cPoints of interSECTion: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and the Site-Specific Exhibition,\u201d The University of the Arts, MFA Program in Museum Exhibition, Planning, and Design, MA thesis defended April 2013 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Sarah E. Crawford, \u201cA Place in History: Can Students Shape Their Community\u2019s Future by Exploring its Past?,\u201d The University of the Arts, Department of Museum Studies, MA thesis defended April 2011 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Jaimie S. Masino, \u201cThe Power of Objects: A Case Study of Visitors\u2019 Affective Responses to Objects from the Holocaust,\u201d The University of the Arts, Department of Museums Studies, MA thesis defended April 2010 (committee).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MA <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew M. Headley, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/publichistoryheadley\/matts-thesis-podcast-final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating Interdisciplinary Work Across Institutional Siloes: Best Practices for Creating Collaborative Projects<\/a>,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended May 2024 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Marie Griffin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/feedingtempletown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feeding Temple Town: A Digital Project Exploring Food, Politics, and Community in North Philadelphia<\/a>,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2023 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sanford, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intheirfootsteps.co\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Their Footsteps: Tracing the Lineage of Resistance Against the Philadelphia Body Trade, 1765-2021<\/a>,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2022 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Bendolph, \u201cTransformative History: American Monument-Making and the Road to Inclusive Public Commemorations for Black American Veterans,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2022 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bartello, \u201cPrimary Source Learning for K-12 Students and Educators: Rethinking the Role of the Archive,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2022 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Kennedy, \u201cA Minor Tour in a Major City: Walking Through the History of Childhood in Philadephia,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2022 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Makuc, Joseph, \u201cGrowing Open Data: A Guide to Making Open Historic Data for Community Gardens,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2021 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>McManus, Ariel Marie, \u201cA Study in Influenza: Ways Historical Institutions Can Enhance Science Literacy,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2021 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Steven, Isabel, \u201cUncovering Queer Domesticity: Intuition and Possibility as Methods of Intervention into the Historic House Museum and Archive,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2021 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Gorman, Alexander Ryan, \u201cTeedyuscung, a Man, a Statue: Folklore, Stories, and Native American Commemorative Statues and Monuments,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2021 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Jessica R. Locklear, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/temple-news.com\/temple-students-project-preserves-lumbee-oral-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaving the Only Land I Know: A History of Lumbee Migrations to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2020 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Alanna Shaffer, \u201cFrom the Frontline to the Picket Line: Public History and the Cultural Labor Revolution,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2020 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Joseph T. Humnicky, \u201cCurated Ground: Public History, Military Memory, and Shared Authority at Battle Sites in North America,\u201d Temple University, History Department, MA in public history defended April 2020 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia F. Heider, \u201cSympathy and Science: Social Settlements and Museums Forging the Future Through a Usable Past,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended July 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Hersch, \u201cSourcing Liberty: Using Artifacts to Teach About Religions Freedom,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Maust, \u201c\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/temple-news.com\/alumnus-takes-on-new-role-at-elfreths-alley-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most Historic Houses Just Sit There<\/a>\u2019\u201d: Activating the Present at Historic House Museums,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2018 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea C. Read, \u201cLocating Philadelphia Jazz: The Intersections of Place, Sound, and Story in the Classroom,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>John E. Smith, III, \u201cThe Art of the Airport: Using Public History and Material Culture to Humanize and Interpret the American Airport,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2018 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Derek Duquette, \u201cQueering Significance: What Preservationists Can Learn from How LGBTQ+ Philadelphians Ascribe Significance to History Sites,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2018 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Maegan A. Pollinger, \u201cPlanting Seeds of Change: Garden Spaces and the Survival of Historic House Museums in Crisis,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2017 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Alaina McNaughton, \u201cMore Than Road Trips and Rangers in Flat Hats: Recognizing Millennial Perceptions of the National Park Service to Effectively Engage the Next Generation of Park Stewards,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2017 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Shank, \u201cBelow the Depths with <em>USS Becuna<\/em>: Reintroducing Cold War History Through Submarines and Cartoons,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2017 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Catherine Sutton, \u201cPennhurst: An Exploration of Exhibition and Collection Care Inside a Haunted Asylum,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2016 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Danielle Williams, \u201cArt at the Airport and the Intersection of Public Art and Public History,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2016 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Joana Arruda, \u201cThe National Park Service Division of International Affairs: A History of International Cooperation as a Call to Action, 1916-2016,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2016 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Gail Freidman, \u201cRemembering DEL-AWARE Community Activism and Eco-Politics in Bucks County Pennsylvania, in the Age of Reagan,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2016 (chair). Published as &#8220;Dumping the Pump: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Community Activism and Eco-Politics in the Age of Reagan.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies<\/em>85, no. 3 (2018): 299-332.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grace DiAgostino, \u201cThe Cemetery Project: A Model for Teaching Historical Understanding and Public History in an Age of Teaching to the Test,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2016 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Mary O\u2019Neil, \u201cOld Stories and New Visualizations: Digital Timelines as Public History Projects,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2015 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Lyell Funk, \u201cBeyond the Powels: Alternative Narratives as Primary Solutions for the Powel House,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2015 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Erin Bernard, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/temple-news.com\/historian-takes-mobile-approach-oral-history-preservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History Truck Unlimited<\/a>: The New Mobile History, Urban Crisis, and Me,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended April 2015 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Megan H.P. Miller, \u201cMaking History: Applications of Digitization and Materialization Projects in Repositories,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in history defended October 2, 2014 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Sara A. Karpinski, \u201cContested Spaces: Imagining Berlin\u2019s Divided Past Through Debated Sites of Heritage Tourism,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in history defended July 2014 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Jenifer Lee Baldwin, \u201cRevival of the Sweetest: Retro-artisanal Entrepreneurship as Historical Exhibition,\u201d Temple University College of Liberal Arts, qualifying paper for Master of Liberal Arts submitted March 2014 (committee).<\/p>\n<p>Erin E. Shipley, \u201cFriends of Franklin: Conflicted Transatlantic Interpretation of Benjamin Franklin in London,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA in public history defended May 2014 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>John Pettit, \u201cDigital History and Community Engagement: In Theory and in Practice,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2012 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Lyndsey Brown, \u201cFounding Force, Forgotten Focus: A Case Study of Gender Influence in the Preservation of Historic House Museums,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2012 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Bayard Miller, \u201cWhen Old Media Was New: Learning from the Past, Archiving for the Future,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2012 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Marrone, \u201cInspiring Public Trust in Our Cultural Institutions: Archives, Public History, and the Philadelphia President\u2019s House,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2012 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Devin Manzullo-Thomas, \u201cBorn-Again Brethren: History as Identity and Theology in the Cultural Transformation of a \u2018Plain People\u2019,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2012 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Sara Borden, \u201cAn Examination of How Archives Have Influenced the Story of Philadelphia\u2019s Civil Rights Movement,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2011 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Steven Greenstein, \u201cRe-envisiong the 1876 Centennial Exhibition: New Exhibit Solutions for an Old Interpretive Problem,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2011 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Jessica C. Clark, \u201cWomen\u2019s History in House Museums: How Using Local Archives Can Improve their Histories,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2011 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Javier Garcia, \u201cRe-remembering the Royal Theater: Public History, Place, and Urban History,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2011 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Dana Dorman, \u201cSearching for Vision: The Beginning and End of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended April 2009 (chair).<\/p>\n<p>Heather Isbell Schumacher, \u201cCulture, Community, and Commerce: Odunde and the Use of Festival on South Street,\u201d Temple University, Department of History, MA thesis defended November 2009 (chair).<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD Qualifying Exams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald Dostie, History (Temple), field: teaching, 7 July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, Documentary Arts And Visual Research (Temple), field: memory and historical method, 4 December 2020.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Devin Manzullo-Thomas, History (Temple), Chair, field: Public History, 10 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Keri Sensevere, Anthropology (Temple), field: US History and Material and Social Analysis of Historical Pottery, 27 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Alli Straub, History (Temple), field: US History to 1865, 23 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Levi Fox, History (Temple), Chair, field: Public History, Material Culture, and Digital History, 7 Nov. 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Deirdre Kelleher, Anthropology (Temple), field: Material Culture, 3 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Karpinski, History (Temple), field: U.S. Public History, 26 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INVITED TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Our Time but Not of It: Race, Memory, and Profit on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore,\u201d Larmore Fellowship Lecture, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD, 12 April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Workshop for Dr. Marla Miller\u2019s \u201cWriting Material Culture\u201d seminar, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 25 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLost on the Freedom Trail,\u201d in conversation with Michael Creasey, General Superintendent of the National Parks of Boston, and Susan Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Historical Society (online), 26 January 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmUo_82hcsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmUo_82hcsM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cInterpreting Skill in Museum Settings: Why This History Matters to the Past, Present, and Future,\u201d Industrial Crafts Research Network inaugural 2021 symposium, online, 14 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching with Museum Collections,\u201d Colonial Academic Alliance Museum Leadership Project, Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 13 October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Chair, \u201cMaterial Culture: Nostalgia, Performance, and the Early Modern World,\u201d James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 10 April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cReimagining the Disposable Assignment: Open Pedagogy in Action,\u201d OpenCon 2019, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1 November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cToward a Healthy Craft Ecosystem,\u201d annual meeting of the American Craft Council, Philadelphia, PA, 12 October 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Lesley<\/em> Documentation Project,\u201d Lunch and Learn Series at the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 21 July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cruiser Olympia and the Making of Modern Philadelphia,\u201d Lunch and Learn Series at the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 17 October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cNPS 101 Workshop: National Parks as Historical Field Schools,\u201d annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, LA, 8 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Chair, \u201cEvery Text is a Thing: The Language of Material Sources,\u201d James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 25 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEncouraging Collaborative History,\u201d with April Antonellis, Northeast Regional History Program, National Park Service, Philadelphia, PA, 22 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizen Soldier: USS Olympia,\u201d with James Delgado and John Brady, Pritzker Military Museum and Library, Chicago, IL, 20 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocating the Freedom Trail in Postwar Boston,\u201d University of Delaware History Workshop, Newark, DE, 6 December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNPS at 100: History, and the Future of the National Park Service,\u201d a public webinar in conversation with Marla Miller and Anne Mitchell Whisnant, sponsored by the NPS Northeast Regional Office history program and the NPS Washington Office Park History program, 19 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking in the Mirror: Learning to See Memory in the American Past,\u201d Evidence of Commemoration Symposium, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington, D.C., 11 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Guest participant in Anth 05: <em>The Presence of the Past<\/em> session on \u201cMaking Histories, Making Nations,\u201d at Boston\u2019s Faneuil Hall, Prof. Cathy Stanton, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 9 November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cNew Park Voices for the Second Century,\u201d Urban Parks and the National Park Service of the Future Symposium, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, PA, 30 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Comment, \u201cHistory and Memory: Pennsylvania as Symbol,\u201d annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, 8 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill Pencak\u2019s Classroom Legacy,\u201d plenary session celebrating the legacies of Bill Pencack, annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, 6 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory as a Pillar of Civic Life,\u201d final remarks for \u201cScholarship and Partnerships: The State of History in the National Parks\u201d forum, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, 6 November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cPublic History Initiative,\u201d Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 5 November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cCliveden Conversations: New Interpretations for a Historic Philadelphia House,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Ottawa, Canada, 18 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWar and Memory in Early America,\u201d ANTH 5180: Historic Sites in Archaeology Seminar, Prof. David Orr, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnessing Washington\u2019s Birthplace,\u201d HPSS S732 and FURN 2451: \u2018Witness Tree Project: Presidents, Place, and Public History,\u2019 Profs. Daniel Cavicchi and Dale Broholm, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 8 November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator, Digital Humanities Workshop, Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 27 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cPublic History Programs at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level: Success, Problems, and Questions,\u201d annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Harrisburg, PA, 2 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNantucket and the Rise of the American Maritime Museum,\u201d Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA, 25 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cBorn in the U.S.A.: Why Birthplaces Matter,\u201d Alice Paul Institute at Paulsdale, the birthplace of Alice Paul, Mount Laurel, NJ, 28 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirth and Commemoration in American Public Memory,\u201d Center for the Humanities at Hood College Annual Colloquium, Hood College, Frederick, MD, 19 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Interpretation workshop, \u201cToward a History of Toeing the Line at Boston National Historical Park,\u201d Boston National Historical Park, Boston, MA, 14 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Comment and chair, \u201cMuseums and Makers: Intersections of Public History and Technology Buffs from Steam Trains to Steampunk,\u201d joint annual meeting of the National Council on Public History and the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI, 19 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing Public History to Promote Racial Equity and Justice,\u201d session four of the <em>Making History Matter<\/em> series sponsored by the PEW Heritage Philadelphia Program and coordinated by Phillip Seitz, Philadelphia, PA, 14 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Guest participant, \u201cProgram Leadership: Public History,\u201d What is Public History?,\u201d HIST-GA 2011 Internship Seminar,\u00a0 Prof. Peter Wosh, New York University, New York, NY, 6 February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing Public with Critical Culture Studies,\u201d keynote, annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular \/ American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, 5 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Comment, \u201cHouses as History: Construction of Place and Past in the American South,\u201d annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, 29 October 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cGlobal Collaborations in American Studies: Learning from Practitioners,\u201d annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, 20 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Washington\u2019s Birthplace and the Problem of Building X,\u201d Cliveden of the National Trust, \u201cCliveden Conversations\u201d series, Philadelphia, PA, 7 July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreservation and Public History in Philadelphia,\u201d Temple University College of Liberal Arts alumni event, Grand Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, PA, 26 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareers in Public History,\u201d James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 25 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory, Memory, and the Birth of George Washington,\u201d Hiram Lodge, Philadelphia, PA, 9 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory versus Memory\u2014What\u2019s the Difference?,\u201d Temple University Metro-Engagement Forum, Philadelphia, PA, 23 February 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnessing Washington\u2019s Birthplace,\u201d HPSS S732 and FURN 2451: \u2018Witness Tree Project: Presidents, Place, and Public History,\u2019 Profs. Daniel Cavicchi and Dale Broholm, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 8 November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational Monuments and American Memory,\u201d Legacies of Liberty, Teaching American History Grant in partnership with the History Project at UC Davis and the Sacramento City Unified School District, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 28 June 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and tour leader, \u201cRevisiting Virginia\u2019s Past: Eight Sites, One Bus, Hundreds of Stories!,\u201d Heritage Philadelphia Program Spring Study Trip, The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, June 9-11, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemembering George Washington at the Sites of his Birth,\u201d American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 16 April 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Public History?,\u201d Temple Undergraduate History and Social Sciences Association, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 23 March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Public History?,\u201d for MSEM 601: \u2018Museum Seminar,\u2019 Prof. Aaron Goldblatt, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 3 March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic History and Memory,\u201d for AmSt 2900: \u2018Sounds of a Revolution,\u2019 Prof. Bryant Simon, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 22 February 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop Tech Tips for Research, Teaching, and Success on the Job Market,\u201d Barnes Club Professional Development Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 13 October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Chair\/comment, \u201cMemory and Nostalgia in Pennsylvania History,\u201d annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, 23 October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegotiating the Academic Job Market,\u201d Barnes Club Professional Development Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 6 April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cEducating a Nation: The National Park Service and Revolutions in Historical Interpretation,\u201d National Council for History Education annual meeting, Boston, MA, 13 March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaterial Culture and Consumerism: Why We Buy Things We Don\u2019t Need,\u201d Maple Woods Community College Fellowship of Free Thought, 29 February 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cRemembering George Washington: His Commemoration and Legacy,\u201d Scholar\u2019s Roundtable on History, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Wakefield, VA, 22 May 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Creation of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument,\u201d for the Park\u2019s 75th anniversary, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Wakefield, VA, 23 January 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cHistories of Bygone Objects,\u201d for History 311: \u2018History of Virginia,\u2019 Professor James Spady, University of Mary Washington, 20 September 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefining Self and Other in Colonial America: The Case of Ethnohistory,\u201d panel commentator, National Bonds, National Boundaries: American Citizenship and the Public\/Private Divide, Second Annual William &amp; Mary American Culture Conference, February 7-8, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE PAPERS AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonuments in Play: A Hands-On Conversation,\u201d with Laura A. Macaluso, Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History, Hartford, CT, 30 March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Public History?,\u201d Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Co-facilitator, \u201cRoundtable: <em>Imperiled Promise<\/em>,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Ottawa, Canada, 18 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Panel organizer and chair, \u201cAdrift on the Shoals of Memory: Maritime Museums in the Twenty-First Century,\u201d and presenter, \u201cDon\u2019t Sink the Ship: The USS Olympia and Maritime Memory in Late-Twentieth-century Philadelphia,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Ottawa, Canada, 18 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Co-facilitator, \u201cImagining New Careers in History,\u201d a working group of the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Milwaukee, WI, 20 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, Undergraduate Research Roundtable Discussion, annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Johnstown, PA, 15 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering to Preserve the U.S.S. Olympia,\u201d International Congress of Maritime Museums, Newport News, VA, 13 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Session leader, \u201cWhat would a Delaware Valley Digital Humanities Center look like?\u201d THATCamp Philly, Philadelphia, PA, 24 September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cStrategies for Decision-Marking in Federal Agencies: Effectively Writing and Using Administrative Histories,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Pensacola, FL, 8 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cPreparing the Professional Historian,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Portland, OR, 13 March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Washington Parke Custis and American Public Memory,\u201d research colloquium, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, 5 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cSo you\u2019re Teaching in a Public History Program,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Providence, RI, April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing Museum Microhistory: The Case of Washington\u2019s Birthplace,\u201d annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Santa Fe, NM, April 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlikely Historians and the Birth of George Washington,\u201d annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExploring the Riverine Atlantic World: Marginality, Empowerment, and the Role of Black Rivermen,\u201d Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America (1<sup>st<\/sup> Annual REPMA Conference), Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, 14 September 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemory of Materiality and the Problem(s) of Reclamation,\u201d Memory, Autobiography and DNA\u2014Second Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 14 April 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse,&#8221; Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, James Madison University, 18 February 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Western Railway of Alabama (WofA) Rail Shops Recording Project,&#8221; a public presentation of project findings, Montgomery, AL, 12 August 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pennsylvania Boatbuilders Project: Shaping a Tradition,\u201d Tenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research<em>,<\/em> The University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXHIBIT AND MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exhibit development adviser, the Hamilton Collections Gallery, a new core exhibit opened November 2024 in celebration of the Franklin Institute\u2019s 200<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, Philadelphia, PA, fall 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 23 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Consulting historian, <em>Inequality in Bronze<\/em>, Historic Stenton in partnership with the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA, spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Consulting historian, Roebling Museum Incubator Grant, Roebling Museum in partnership with the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Roebling, NJ, fall 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 6 December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 20 September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Technical advisor, <em>Audience Embedded<\/em>, a joint project of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Taller Puertorriqueno, and funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Humanities, summer-fall 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Community Partners Dinner at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA, 18 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>1876 Centennial Innovations Charrette, The Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 6 April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 7 December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Content adviser and reviewer for <em>Pirates and Patriots<\/em>, a permanent exhibit at the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, fall 2014 through fall 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 10 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Contributor, <em>allTURNatives: Form + Spirit<\/em>, exhibit at the Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, 7 August 2015 to 26 September 2015, featured at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m4Fg2lwDpyY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/m4Fg2lwDpyY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mass Incarceration Programming Summit: Exhibits, Public Programs, Publications for 2016, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, 30 July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant, Reminder Days Exhibition Charrette, William Way Center, Philadelphia, PA, 7 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Polly McKenna-Cress), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 21-22 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Participant, charette on university collaboration, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, PA, 13 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 8 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Proposal Reviewer, Community History Gallery, Philadelphia History Museum, Philadelphia, PA, June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant, The Cliveden Project (interpreting slavery), Philadelphia, PA, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant and course coordinator, First Person Arts People\u2019s Museum Project ($3000 to Temple University Center for Public History), Philadelphia, PA, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Critique of graduate student exhibit schematic presentations, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (Prof. Keith Ragone), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 15 October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant, \u201cIt Sprang from the River! Everyday Objects with Maritime Secrets,\u201d Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 26 March 2010 to 3 January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant, Envision Peace Museum, Philadelphia, PA, fall 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROGRAM AND SITE REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Site Review and Scholars\u2019 Forum, Boston National Historical Park, sponsored by the National Park Service in cooperation with the Organization of American Historians, Boston, MA, 20-22 June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Programming review, Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, Philadelphia, PA, 12 April 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Site Review and Scholars\u2019 Forum, Minute Man National Historical Park, sponsored by the National Park Service in cooperation with the Organization of American Historians, Concord, MA, 29-31 October 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER CONSULTING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Place-in-Time stakeholder roundtable, hosted by the PEW Heritage Philadelphia Program and City Lore, Philadelphia, PA, 6 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise Center Discovery Charette (site of American Bandstand), Philadelphia, PA, 16 June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia Muhlenberg 300 WEB Planning Group, 13 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant and course coordinator, \u201cGermantown Works\u201d Pew Charitable Trusts Heritage Philadelphia Program, summer and fall 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Documentary Civic Engagement Committee, September 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashby M. Larmore Research Fellow, \u201cA Pre-History of Public Memory on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore\u201d ($3,000), Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD, 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Principal investigator, \u201cLost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston\u201d ($6,000), Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Principal investigator, with Terence Christian, <em>&#8220;Honor to the Soldier and Sailor Everywhere&#8221; <\/em>($150,659), Battlefield Planning Grant from the National Park Service&#8217;s American Battlefield Protection Program, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Research Fellowship, Boston National Historical Park Administrative History ($65,000), the Organization of American Historians in partnership with the National Park Service, fall 2015 to spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Experience (PEX) Partnership Stipend ($500), General Education Program, Temple University, September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Principal investigator, \u201cDiscovering the Public Humanities at Temple University\u201d ($10,000), 2014-15 Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Research Program, May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>2015 Windgate ITE Residential Fellowship, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n<p>Principal investigator, \u201cThe Philadelphia Public History Truck,\u201d The Barra Foundation ($85,000), July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney 2012 Residential Research Fellowship, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Planning for the Public History Future, Temple University Faculty Senate Seed Money Grant for program review ($10,000), December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Temple University College of Liberal Arts Research Council Travel Grant ($500) to participate in the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Experience (PEX) Partnership Stipend ($500), General Education Program, Temple University, January 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Historical Society, Mellon Research Fellowship, August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Subvention grant for<em> Born in the U.S.A.<\/em>, College of Liberal Arts Research Council, Temple University, April 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS AND HONORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2024 Annual Teaching Award, History Department, Temple University.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Choice Award for <em>Lost on the Freedom Trail<\/em>, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Society for History in Federal Government (2023) Book Award for <em>Lost on the Freedom Trail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Faculty Teaching Award (2023), College of Liberal Arts, Temple University.<\/p>\n<p>Research Sabbatical, fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Schmidt Award for Departmental Service (2018), History Department, Temple University.<\/p>\n<p>Research Sabbatical, spring 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding Faculty Service Award (2013), Office of the Provost and Faculty Senate Steering Committee, Temple University.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary Research Fellow of the Nantucket Historical Society, 5 November 2012 to present.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Hofkin Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012), College of Liberal Arts, Temple University.<\/p>\n<p>The College of William &amp; Mary Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities, for \u201cBirthing Washington: Objects, Memory, and the Creation of a National Monument,\u201d May 2007.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phi Alpha Theta<\/em> National History Honors Society, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State University Scholars Program, 1995-97.<\/p>\n<p>Polin Cohanne Award in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996<\/p>\n<p><em>Phi Beta Kappa<\/em>, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA APPEARANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Finley, \u201cHow Presidents Day went from George Washington\u2019s modest birthday to big sales and 3-day weekends,\u201d AP News, 18 February 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/presidents-day-washington-lincoln-explainer-1dfed24d0e7e920f9004727b5218dcdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/presidents-day-washington-lincoln-explainer-1dfed24d0e7e920f9004727b5218dcdb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Hart, \u201cWhat is a food truck? A Temple public history research project is finding out,\u201d Temple Now, 21 November 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.temple.edu\/news\/2022-11-21\/what-food-truck-temple-public-history-research-project-finding-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.temple.edu\/news\/2022-11-21\/what-food-truck-temple-public-history-research-project-finding-out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interview with Jake Sconyers concerning <em>Lost on the Freedom Trail<\/em>, <em>HUB History<\/em> (episode 251), podcast audio, 15 June 2022, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubhistory.com\/episodes\/lost-on-the-freedom-trail-the-national-park-service-and-urban-renewal-in-postwar-boston-episode-251\/\">http:\/\/www.hubhistory.com\/episodes\/lost-on-the-freedom-trail-the-national-park-service-and-urban-renewal-in-postwar-boston-episode-251\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rayna Lewis, \u201cFive Unique Ways to Experience Philadelphia\u2019s Past,\u201d Temple Now, 17 September 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.temple.edu\/news\/2021-09-17\/five-unique-ways-experience-philadelphia-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.temple.edu\/news\/2021-09-17\/five-unique-ways-experience-philadelphia-past<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simmone Shah, \u201cAmerica Has Always Struggled to Memorialize Tragedy. Some Communities are Trying to Do Better for COVID-19,\u201d TIME, 10 September 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6095659\/memorializing-covid-19-tragedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/time.com\/6095659\/memorializing-covid-19-tragedy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Brockell, \u201cHistorians: No, to removing Jefferson, Washington monuments. Yes, to contextualizing them,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, 2 September 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/09\/02\/removing-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-historians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/09\/02\/removing-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-historians\/<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim Fischer, \u201cBeyond Repair: Ten History Students Strive to Save a Jersey Shore Treasure,\u201d <em>Temple Magazine<\/em>(Spring 2018): pp. 31-35.\u00a0 Online at <a href=\"https:\/\/sway.com\/Hxph3VsrFvLfBWfi?loc=swsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sway.com\/Hxph3VsrFvLfBWfi?loc=swsp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Temple University Strategic Communications, \u201cBeyond Repair: History Students Bring Damaged Boat to Life,\u201d a video documentary of my fall 2017 teaching partnership with the Independence Seaport Museum, 11 June 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G06Sn3ygb1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G06Sn3ygb1w<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Temple University Strategic Communications, \u201cHistory Professor Shows Students North Philadelphia Factory,\u201d a video short documenting my fall 2017 American Revolutions course and our visit to a local textile factory, 16 November 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rrqDhmMLmE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rrqDhmMLmE8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cProject underway to get Philadelphians to see public monuments in new way,&#8221;\u00a0WHYY <em>NewsWorks<\/em>, 13 September 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/arts-culture\/107150-project-underway-to-get-philadelphians-to-see-public-monuments-in-new-way-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/arts-culture\/107150-project-underway-to-get-philadelphians-to-see-public-monuments-in-new-way-video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carr Henry, \u201cTemple History Course Focuses on National Parks,\u201d <em>The Temple News<\/em>, 7 February 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/temple-news.com\/lifestyle\/new-history-course-focuses-heritage-interpretation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/temple-news.com\/lifestyle\/new-history-course-focuses-heritage-interpretation\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Melamed, \u201cEastern State Tackles True Terror: Mass Incarceration,\u201d <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, 4 May 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2016-05-05\/entertainment\/72835370_1_mass-incarceration-prison-inmates-eastern-state-penitentiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2016-05-05\/entertainment\/72835370_1_mass-incarceration-prison-inmates-eastern-state-penitentiary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Curnow Wilson, \u201cThrowing Clay for the Humanities,\u201d <em>College of Liberal Arts News<\/em>, Temple University, 29 March 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/about-us\/newsroom\/throwing-clay-humanities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/about-us\/newsroom\/throwing-clay-humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Washington and Presidents\u2019 Day,\u201d <em>Academic Minute<\/em>, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 17 February 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/wamc.org\/post\/dr-seth-bruggeman-temple-university-george-washington-and-presidents-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/wamc.org\/post\/dr-seth-bruggeman-temple-university-george-washington-and-presidents-day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa Bricker, &#8220;Celebrating the life of a home&#8221;\u201cA Funeral for a Home\u201d is a program that commemorates the histories of row homes,&#8221; <em>The Temple News<\/em>, 12 November 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/temple-news.com\/celebrating-life-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/temple-news.com\/celebrating-life-home\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, \u201cImperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service,\u201d <em>The Journal of American History<\/em>Podcast, April 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/podcast\/program\/201304.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/podcast\/program\/201304.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Anderson, \u201cWhat \u201cCounts\u201d as a Public History Dissertation? Some Views from the Field,\u201d <em>History @ Work<\/em>(blog), National Council on Public History, 10 August 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/ncph.org\/history-at-work\/what-counts-as-a-public-history-dissertation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ncph.org\/history-at-work\/what-counts-as-a-public-history-dissertation\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cSetting sale: USS Olympia now on the market,\u201d <em>newsworks<\/em>, 31 March 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/art-entertainment-sports\/item\/16198-30pcolympia&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/art-entertainment-sports\/item\/16198-30pcolympia&amp;Itemid=1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cSite of Historic Presidential Home Stirs Controversy,\u201d <em>All Things Considered<\/em>, National Public Radio, 15 December 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/15\/132087148\/Site-Of-Nations-First-White-House-Stirs-Controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/15\/132087148\/Site-Of-Nations-First-White-House-Stirs-Controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cA president and his property,\u201d WHYY Philadelphia, 15 December 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/14pcpres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/14pcpres\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Grens, \u201cHaunted house at mental hospital stirs debate,\u201d WHYY Philadelphia, 24 September 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/haunted-house-at-mental-hospital-stirs-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/haunted-house-at-mental-hospital-stirs-debate\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dianna Marder, \u201cMemoir rooted in cherished, storied objects,\u201d <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, 8 April 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Fischer, \u201cClasses explore city history beyond the Liberty Bell [with slideshow and audiocast], Temple University Office of News Communications (27 October 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cCivil War collection may leave city,\u201d WHYY Philadelphia, 28 July 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cBetsy Ross reputation flagging in 21st century,&#8221; WHYY Philadelphia, 27 April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Fischer, \u201cCelebrating Presidents Day: Historian Seth Bruggeman explores why we honor past presidents,\u201d Temple University Office of News Communications (9 February 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Kim Fischer, \u201cWhat we talk about when we talk about the past\u201d [with audiocast], Temple University Office of News Communications (2 February 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Alex Schmidt, \u201cOld Visitor Center is New Battle of Gettysburg,\u201d <em>Morning Edition<\/em>, National Public Radio, 7 October 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Schmidt, \u201cIn Gettysburg a preservation battle looms over original home of cyclorama painting,\u201d WHYY Philadelphia, 26 September 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crimmins, \u201cMemories of 9\/11 remain strong even as number of ceremonies dwindle,\u201d WHYY Philadelphia, 11 September 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Hedelt in \u201cVisitors Can Get Bit of History,\u201d <em>The Free Lance-Star<\/em> (Fredericksburg, VA), 20 January 2005, sec. C, p. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Hutchinson, <em>Community Focus<\/em>, Southeast Public Radio, Montgomery, AL, 15 September 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Hutchinson, <em>Panorama<\/em>, Southeast Public Radio, Montgomery, AL, 19 September 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL SERVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Field(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tenure referee for the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Appalachian State University, and the University of Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>Article and\/or manuscript referee for <em>Early American Studies<\/em>, <em>Virginia Magazine of History and Biography<\/em>, <em>Oral History Review<\/em>, <em>Journal of Southern History<\/em>, <em>Winterthur Portfolio<\/em>, <em>Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em>, <em>Public Art Dialogue Journal<\/em>, Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge, UMass Press, Temple University Press, and New York University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Editorial board, <em>History in Public Perspective<\/em>, a UMass Press book series, 2015 to present.<\/p>\n<p>Public History Program Proposal Reviewer, University of Nebraska at Kearney, April 26-28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Program committee co-chair, with Cathy Stanton, the 2019 annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, Hartford, CT, summer 2018 to spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Member, Organization of American History Committee on National Park Service Collaboration Committee, fall 2016 to spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Balch and Greenfield Fellowships Review Committee, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Program reviewer, American Studies Program, Penn State-Abington, 31 March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer, Revised Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (to recognize collaborative and engaged scholarship), Department of History, Virginia Tech University, October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Local arrangements committee, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association.<\/p>\n<p>Review Panelist, America\u2019s Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning and Implementation Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., 9 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>National Council on Public History 2012-13 Book Award Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Judge, National History Day, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, 29 March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Editorial Board, <em>Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em>, 2011 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Co-organizer with Charlene Mires and Robert Kodosky of the 2011 Public History Community Forum (PUBCOM), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 29 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Museum review coordinator, <em>Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas<\/em> (2010-11).<\/p>\n<p>Council member, Pennsylvania Historical Association, January 2011 to January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>List Editor, H-Amstdy, H-Net Humanities &amp; Social Sciences OnLine, September 2004 to January 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Temple University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">College of Liberal Arts, Committee on Instruction, spring 2021 to spring 2023, chair during 2022\/23.<\/p>\n<p>College of Liberal Arts International Summer School Collaborative with the University of G\u00f6ttingen, fall 2019 to present.<\/p>\n<p>Temple University Press Board of Review, summer 2018 to summer 2019.<\/p>\n<p>College of Liberal Arts Strategic Planning subcommittee on Research, fall 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Proposal Reviewer, Temple University-Wagner Free Institute of Science Humanities and Arts Research Alliance, Presidential Humanities and Arts Research Program, fall 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Ad Hoc Career Credit Committee, College of Liberal Arts, fall 2015.<\/p>\n<p>College of Liberal Arts Tenure Committee, 2013-2016.<\/p>\n<p>Library and Learning Commons Working Group, Provost Master Planning Initiative, Summer 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Temple Contemporary (Tyler School of Art Gallery) Advisory Council member, 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>Advisory Board Member, Center for the Humanities at Temple, 2012 &#8211; 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Temple Department of History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director, Center for Public History, 2008 to 2015; 2018 to present.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Committee, fall 2009 to spring 2011, fall 2018 to present.<\/p>\n<p>General Education Recertification Coordinator, <em>History 831: Immigration and the American Dream<\/em>, 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>Hiring committee, African American History, spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>60-Book US History Exam Committee, 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel Committee, fall 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Chair\u2019s Advisory Committee, fall 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>DPAA Postdoctoral Fellowship hiring committee, spring 2017.<\/p>\n<p>External review coordinator, Center for Public History, fall 2016 to spring 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic Review Pre-planning Ad Hoc Committee, spring 2015.<\/p>\n<p>MA Coordinator, fall 2012 to spring 2014.<\/p>\n<p>External review coordinator, Center for Public History, spring 2011.<\/p>\n<p>History MA Public History Concentration created, fall 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Redesigned department website, fall 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Committee, fall 2008 to spring 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Chair\u2019s Advisory Committee, fall 2008 to spring 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Temple American Studies Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curriculum exchange, University of East Anglia program consortium, Norwich, UK, May 10-13, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Redesigned program website, spring 2009.<\/p>\n<p>American Studies Council, fall 2008-13.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDUCATION Master of Architecture, Temple University, 2029 (expected). 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