About
I am an independent curator/exhibit developer, interpretive planner, and museum consultant based in Philadelphia, serving museums, libraries, and other arts and culture organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond. I also provide freelance research and writing services to organizations and individuals nationwide.
Trained as an art historian, I bring a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge to my work as a public historian. I have extensive professional experience in cultural and educational organizations, including museum, library, publishing, and teaching positions.
Experience and Skills
Education
Subject Areas
Languages
Trained as an art historian, I bring a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge to my work as a public historian. I have extensive professional experience in cultural and educational organizations, including museum, library, publishing, and teaching positions.
Experience and Skills
- Curator/exhibit developer, interpretive planner, art historian, and public historian with extensive museum experience and a broad array of interdisciplinary knowledge on topics in art, history, science, and medicine.
- Have worked on all aspects of museum exhibitions, from initial concept to final installation.
- Experienced in content development for digital interactives, web exhibitions, and websites.
- Consultant with expertise in exhibitions, publications, and other projects.
- Published author; can write for academic audiences and the general public. Expert in different formats of writing for diverse audiences.
- Significant experience in book publishing; knowledge of key stages of publishing, from developmental editing to final page proofing.
- Skilled and experienced editor and copyeditor.
- Published translator (French to English), particularly for texts on art, history, and the history of science.
- Creative problem-solver, organizer, and project planner; work well independently and collaboratively.
- Experience in public speaking, teaching, and training.
Education
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
- M.A. in Art History and Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
- B.A. cum laude in the History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Subject Areas
- 18th- & 19th-century European and American art and visual culture
- History, technology, and aesthetics of photography
- History and visual culture of technology, science, and medicine
- History of Philadelphia and the region
- History of natural history
- History and visual culture of anthropology
Languages
- Fluent in French, including French-to-English translation
- Competent in German
Image: Detail of Expérience de la machine aérostatique, 1783, colored etching by unknown artist. From Jane E. Boyd, “Artificial Clouds and Inflammable Air: The Science and Spectacle of the First Balloon Flights, 1783,” Chemical Heritage 27:2 (Summer 2009): 32–37. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-02474.
