Benjamin L. Carp, Ph.D.
Advisor - History concentration
Benjamin L. Carp is an assistant 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 recently held a research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. His book, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution is scheduled to appear in the summer of 2007. 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 (Spring)
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 Historical Center 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.

Jayne Gordon, M.A.
Curriculum Development for Museum-School Collaborations (Spring)
Jayne Gordon received her B.A. in Education from the University of North Carolina and her M.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts. She is currently the Director of Education and Public Programs for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Previously, she was Executive Director of the Thoreau Society, the world's oldest and largest organization devoted to the legacy of an American author. She has been involved with organizations connecting history, literature and landscape for over thirty years. Gordon has held the position of Director of Education at both the Thoreau Institute (Walden Woods Project) and the Concord Museum, and was the Director of the Orchard House, home of the Alcotts, for sixteen years. In addition, she has been an educational consultant, interpretive planner and workshop facilitator for dozens of non-profit, academic and government organizations.

Cara Iacobucci, M.A., Ed.M.
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
Professor McTighe is assistant professor of Art History at Tufts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2005 in contemporary art history and theory. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between installation art and photography. Her research interests also include site-specific art and globalization and the history and politics of exhibition spaces.

James Olson, M.A.
Museums and New Media (Fall)
Jim Olson received his B.A. in Art History and Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross and his M.A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently the Coordinator of Technology for the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. Part of his work at the Davis Museum includes designing and enhancing the museum's website, developing interactive touchscreen kiosks, and informational kiosks He also manages one of the first museum podcasting programs in the country and managing the digitization of a 10,000 object collection. Additionally, his previous museum work includes his role as an Interpreter at the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln, MA. He has also taught upper-level Art History courses at the University of Massachusetts.

Ingrid A. Neuman, M.A.
Collections Care And Preservation (Fall)
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.

Laura B. Roberts, M.B.A., M.A.
Museums Today: Mission and Function (Fall)
Laura B. Roberts holds an M.B.A. in public and nonprofit management, with high honors, from Boston University School of Management, an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York, and a B.A. in Social Anthropology, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. Roberts is principal of Roberts Consulting, providing management consulting services to nonprofit cultural organizations. She has taught at Tufts University since 1995 and has also been adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Management, Bank Street College of Education, Lesley University and Showa University. She is on the faculty of the Seminars in Historic Administration and the Sagamore Institute and is a frequent presenter at professional meetings and conferences. From 1988 to 1994, Roberts was executive director of the New England Museum Association, a regional affiliate of the American Association of Museums, where she was responsible for developing programs and services for over 200 institutional and 700 individual members, including an annual conference, biannual salary survey, and programmatic initiatives on boards of directors and museum internships. Prior to her tenure at NEMA, she was director of education at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, Mass., and the Rhode Island Historical Society. From 1994 to 1996, she was executive director of the Boston Center for Adult Education. She currently chairs the advisory board of the Tufts University Art Gallery, serves on the board of directors of First Night, Boston. She is a past president of the board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Prior board memberships include the Education Committee of the American Association of Museums, the Boston Museum Educators’ Roundtable, the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies, the Rhode Island Social Studies Association, the MIT Museum, the WGBH Community Advisory Board, and the Oral History Center.

Cynthia Robinson, M.S.
Director of Museum Studies
Museum Studies Internship Supervisor
Museums Today: Mission and Function (Fall)
Proseminar in Museum Education (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.

Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Ph.D.
Curating Contemporary Art (Fall)
Amy Ingrid Schlegel has been the director of galleries and collections at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, since 2004. She also holds an appointment in the Department of Art and Art History and is a faculty member in the Tufts Museum Studies Certificate Program. Schlegel programs the four exhibition spaces comprising the Tufts University Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center and oversees the development and management of the university’s permanent art collection of approximately two thousand objects. Schlegel earned a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University with a dissertation on feminist art and activist practices in New York since the late 1960s. She also holds an M.A. in art history from the University of Chicago, where she specialized in northern European art of the early twentieth century. Schlegel served in several curatorial capacities prior to joining Tufts. At the Philadelphia Art Alliance, she established and directed the visual-arts exhibitions program from 1999 to 2003. She organized the critically acclaimed and popular exhibition Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont invited her to recast it on a national scale as Altered Eden: Contemporary Visions of the Landscape. As a graduate student, Schlegel was a curatorial fellow at Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In addition, Schlegel has taught art history and women’s studies at Columbia, the University of Vermont, and Moore College of Art and Design. She is a contributor to the anthology Singular Women: Writing the Artist (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) and has written for Sculpture, Art Journal, and Third Text.

Kenneth C. Turino, M.A.
Exhibition Planning for the Small Museum (Spring)
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. As Exhibitions Manager, Turino is responsible for developing, coordinating, and contracting for Historic New England's traveling exhibition program, locally, regionally, and nationally. Recent projects have included the critically acclaimed collaboration with MASS MoCA, Yankee Remix,:Artists Take on New England; The Photographs of Verner Reed 1950-1972; The Camera's Coast and the award-winning From Dairy to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England 1860-1960. 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 the Northern New England Regional Leadership Team Leader for the American Association for State and Local History Awards Program. 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, Mass. He also served as Assistant Director at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia and as Director of Education at the Paul Revere House in Boston.

Barbara McLean Ward
Historical Interpretation of Material Culture (Spring)
Barbara McLean Ward is a summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Connecticut College. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston University in American and New England Studies where she wrote her dissertation on early eighteeenth-century Boston gold and silversmiths. Ward was curatorial assistant and exhibition coordinator in American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, assistant professor in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the Winterthur Museum, director of Interpretation and Publications at the Essex Institute (now part of the Peabody Essex Museum), and project director at the Strawbery Banke Museum. She is now Director/curator of the Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden in Portsmouth, NH. Ward has also worked at the University of New Hampshire as a full-time instructor in American History, and in the Center for the Humanities as assistant editor of the Journal of American Folklore and as an editorial assistant for the Encyclopedia of New England. Ward has written extensively on early American material culture.

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