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Faculty Profiles
Benjamin L. Carp, Ph.D.
Advisor - History concentration
Benjamin L. Carp is an associate professor in the History Department
at Tufts. His major area of research is Early American history,
particularly the era of the American Revolution. He holds a Ph.D.
in History from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Yale
University. He previously taught at the University of Edinburgh
and held a research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. His first
book, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, was published
in 2007. His second book, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea
Party and the Making of America, was published in the fall of 2010.
He has also published in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal and The William and Mary Quarterly. Professor Carp maintains
a strong interest in material culture.
Jennifer DePrizio, M.A.T.
Museum Education and Interpretation (Fall)
Jennifer DePrizio is the Director of Visitor Learning at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. She previously served as the Education Specialist for Public Teaching Programs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA. She has also held collections positions with the Worcester Art Museum as the Assistant Curator of Education, Grant Reviewer for the Institute for Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C. and Director of Education at the Vermont Historical Society in Montepelier, VT. She holds a B.A. in Art History from the College of the Holy Cross and a M.A.T. in Museum Education from The George Washington University.
Margherita M. Desy, M.A.
Collections Management (Fall)
Margherita M. Desy graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with
a B.A. in History and Art History. She earned her M.A. in American
Civilization from George Washington University and studied at
Sotheby's Institute in London. She is the Historian at the Naval History &
Heritage Command Detachment in Boston, MA. She was formerly the Site Manager of Historic
New England's Phillips House in Salem and was the
Associate Curator and Curator at the USS Constitution Museum,
Boston. She has also worked at the National Museum of American
History at the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Holocaust
Museum in Washington, D.C., the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in
Hartford, and Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. She was
script advisor and on-camera historian for the History Channel
production, "Old Ironsides Returns to the Sea" and provided color
commentary for Boston's WCVB Channel 5 coverage of USS
Constitution's historic sail in 1997 and the History Channel's
national broadcast of the Sail Boston 2000 Tall Ships gathering. She
was the Harden Craig Memorial Scholar at the Frank G. Munson
Institute at Mystic Seaport and has published in the Nautical
Research Journal, the Constitution Chronicle, and the Encyclopedia
of American Maritime Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes.
Cara Iacobucci, M.A., Ed.M.
Museums Today: Mission and Function (Fall)
Exhibition Planning for the Small Museum (Spring)
A graduate of the Museum Studies certificate program, Iacobucci also
holds an undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Bates College, a
M.A. in the History of Art from Tufts University and an Ed.M. in Arts
in Education from Harvard University. Most recently, Iacobucci
served as guest curator at the Lynn Museum & Historical Society for
the exhibition titled Different Journeys, Common Bonds: The Greek
Community in Lynn.
Previously, she spent nine years at Historic New England as a
Program Specialist developing and managing adult and family
programs. In addition, Iacobucci has held positions and internships
at several organizations including The Paul Revere House, The Fuller
Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and Vose Galleries.
Andrew McClellan, Ph.D.
Museum History and Theory (Fall)
Andrew McClellan is Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts & Sciences
and Professor of Art History. He has been a member of the Museum
Studies faculty since the program's inception. His scholarly research,
and teaching contribution to the program, focuses on the history and
theory of museums. He is the author of three museum-related books:
Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern
Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1994); Art and Its Publics:
Museum Studies at the Millennium (2003); and The Art Museum
From Boullee to Bilbao (2007).
Monica McTighe, Ph.D.
Advisor – Art History concentration
Monica McTighe is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the
Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University. She received
her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2005 with a
concentration in contemporary art history and theory. She wrote her
dissertation on the politics of memory and history in the
installation art of Ann Hamilton, Doris Salcedo, Fred Wilson, and
Renée Green and is finishing a book based on her dissertation titled
"Framed Spaces: Photography and Temporality in Contemporary
Installation Art." She has given lectures in Europe, the United
States, and Australia on the videos and installations of Renée
Green, Tony Cokes, and Ann Hamilton as well as published articles
and reviews in Third Text and Art Papers. An essay she
recently wrote titled, "A Work Aesthetic: The Films of Kevin
Everson" will accompany the Video Databank release of a compilation
of the films of Kevin Jerome Everson. Teaching at Tufts University
since 2004, she offers courses on postmodernism, history and memory
in contemporary art, conceptual art practices, and the history of
alternative art spaces. She is currently working on a second book
project on the reading habits of contemporary artists.
Ingrid A. Neuman, M.A.
Collections Care And Preservation (Spring)
Ingrid A. Neuman earned a M.A. and a Certificate in Advanced Studies
from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in the Conservation of
Historic Art and Artifacts in Cooperstown, New York. She also holds
a B.A. degree in Classics with a specific concentration in
Mediterraean Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts in
Amherst. She is a Conservator of three-dimensional artifacts in
private practice. Prior to establishing her own private practice,
Neuman held the position of Head of Sculpture Conservation at the
Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Williamstown, Massachusetts
where she also taught in the Graduate Art History Department at
Williams College. While in the Berkshires, she also served seven
years as a conservation consultant on the board of the Vermont
Museum and Gallery Alliance where she conducted numerous
conservation surveys for the cultural institutions in the state of
Vermont and presented workshops on the preservation of museum
collections. She regularly reviews federal grant applications for
the NEH and the IMLS and has served on numerous committees for the
American Institute for Conservation. Her career began at the
National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of
American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
She currently works as the Museum Conservator at the Rhode Island
School of Design Museum in Providence, RI.
Christine Reich, M.A.
Museum Evaluation (Summer)
Christine Reich is Director of Research and Evaluation at the
Museum of Science, Boston. Through this position she oversees the
completion of over 20 studies each year that cover areas such as
visitor services, exhibitions, school field trips, teacher professional
development, adult programs, and educational technologies. In addition,
Ms. Reich oversees the evaluation of the Nanoscale Informal Science
Education Network (NISE Net), a Network of science museums and scientific
research organizations funded through two consecutive, $20 million
National Science Foundation grants. She is also chair-elect for the
Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation, a Standing Professional
Committee of AAM, and recently served as the lead author and group leader
for the Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE)
Inquiry Group on Inclusion, Disabilities and Informal Science Learning.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Reich served as a museum educator and
an exhibit planner at the Museum of Science, developing educational
experiences that specifically targeted people with disabilities as a
primary audience. Ms. Reich has a B.S. in agricultural and biological
engineering from Cornell University, a certificate in museum studies from
Harvard University, a Masters of Education from Lesley University, and is
a doctoral candidate in curriculum and instruction at Boston College.
Cynthia Robinson, M.S.
Director of Museum Studies
Museum Studies Internship Supervisor
Museums Today: Mission and Function (Fall)
Proseminar in Museum Education (Spring)
Museums and Online Learning (Spring)
Cynthia Robinson holds a B.A. in museum studies from Hampshire College and a M.S. in education from Bank Street College of Education. She has worked at a number of museums, including the National Heritage Museum, The Bostonian Society, and Old Sturbridge Village. As the executive director of the Bay State Historical League for 10 years, she provided professional development programs and services for history museums and historical organizations throughout the state. Robinson has extensive experience in museum management, curriculum development, and exhibit planning, research, and text writing. Her particular interest is finding ways—through programs, exhibits, and other means—to engage audiences in museum learning. She is the author of Going Public: Community Program and Project Ideas for Historical Organizations (Bay State Historical League, 1999), numerous articles in museum journals, and a several museum-school curricula. Robinson is the editor of
Network, the e-newsletter of the Museum Education Roundtable, and serves on the council of the American Association of State and Local History.
Barbara Silberman, M.H.A.
Revitalizing Historic House Museums (Summer)
Barbara Silberman is a seasoned museum professional specializing in
history and historic house museums. She founded and directed the
Heritage Philadelphia Program, at the Pew Center for Arts and Culture
in Philadelphia, providing technical assistance, and making grants for
programming and historic preservation for more than 400 historic
organizations in the Philadelphia area. Currently she works as an
independent consultant specializing in problem-solving and governance
practices, strategic planning, program planning and fundraising.
Silberman has a BA in American history from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, and an MHA from the George Washington University. She has complete
graduate coursework in finances at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania and is currently taking graduate history courses at the
Harvard Extension School. Silberman has written and presented extensively
on a variety of subjects related to historical organizations and has served
as the Chair of the Historic House Committee of the American Association for
State and Local History as well as on its Council. She is the board chair of
the Sargent House Museum in Gloucester MA.
Rainey Tisdale, M.A.
The Meaning of Things: Interpreting Material Culture (Spring)
Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator specializing in urban history and
city museums, and she regularly writes about these topics on her blog
CityStories.
She has held curatorial positions at the Bostonian Society, the Office of Senate
Curator at the U.S. Capitol, and the AFL-CIO's Meany Archives and Museum. She
co-founded the Boston Area Collections Coalition, a networking and
resource-sharing group for local collections professionals. In 2010 she was a
Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland, researching best practices for city
museums. Other than urban history, her professional interests include museum
mapping projects, sensory history, and creativity in museums. She holds a B.A.
in urban studies from Haverford College and an M.A. in museum studies from The
George Washington University.
Kenneth C. Turino, M.A.
Exhibition Planning for the Small Museum (Spring)
Revitalizing Historic House Museums (Summer)
Kenneth C. Turino holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching, Museum Education,
from George Washington University. He is Manager of Community Engagement
and Exhibitions at Historic New England, the oldest, largest and most
comprehensive regional preservation organization in the country. Turino
is responsible for developing and managing Historic New England's traveling
exhibition program. Projects have included the critically acclaimed
collaboration with MASS MoCA, Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England;
America's Kitchens; The Camera's Coast, and the award-winning
From Dairy
to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England 1860-1960. As part of his institutions
100 Years 100 Communities initiative, he is establishing partnerships with
institutions across New England focusing on collecting and preserving 20th
Century history. He also developed and coordinates the Program in New England
Studies, a week long course on New England architecture, decorative arts, and
material culture. Mr. Turino is Chair of the American Association for State and
Local History‘s Leadership in History Awards Program, a member of AASLH's
Historic House Museums Committee and on the advisory council for the American
Association of Museum's Museum magazine. Prior to coming to Historic New England, Turino was Executive Director of the Lynn Museum for fourteen years, an active
local history museum in Lynn, Massachusetts. He also served as Assistant Director
at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia and as Director of Education at the Paul
Revere House in Boston.
Tara Young, M.A.
Curriculum Development for Museum-School Collaborations (Spring)
Tara Young received her B.A. in art history from Harvard College and
her M.A. in art history from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an
independent museum education consultant based in central
Massachusetts. Her previous positions have included Assistant
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum,
Associate Curator of Education at the Tacoma Art Museum, and
Director of Education at the Higgins Armory Museum. She is currently
the Deputy Director at the Museum of Russian Icons,
in Clinton, MA. Tara is also a writer and editor in art education
publishing for the K-12 and college markets.
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