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Faculty Profiles
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.
Margherita M. Desy, M.A.
Collections Management (Spring) - on leave Spring 2008
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 Site Manager of Historic
New England’s Phillips House in Salem, and previously she 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.
Laura Howick, M.A.
Museum Education and Interpretation (Fall)
Laura Howick, Director of Education at the Fitchburg Art Museum, has
worked as a museum educator in four art museums over the past twenty
years. In her various positions she has been responsible for
exhibition development, gallery interpretation (including two
interactive galleries), docent training, family and public programs,
youth art classes, outreach programs to schools, teacher training
and resource materials, arts-integrated curricula, supervision, and
administration. As co-author of Art Works for Schools: A Curriculum
for Teaching Thinking In and Through the Arts, she has taught
teachers in the Project Zero Summer Institute at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education for seven years. She has been an
educational consultant and workshop leader for several museums and
numerous school systems. She received her B.A. degree from
Connecticut College, and her M. A. in Art Education from
Philadelphia College of Art.
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.
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.
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 splits her time between consulting
and the Tufts Museum Studies Program. She 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.
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Ph.D.
Exhibition Planning for the Art Museum (Spring)
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.
Rainey Tisdale, M.A.
Collections Management (Spring 2008)
Rainey Tisdale currently works for the Bostonian Society as Director
of the Old State House Museum. She previously served as Collections
Manager and then Director of Collections and Exhibitions for the
Bostonian Society, and also has held collections positions with the
Office of Senate Curator at the U.S. Capitol and the AFL-CIO
Archives and Museum. Working with these collections, she has gained
first-hand experience in all aspects of collections management,
particularly in balancing national standards for best practice
against the day-to-day realities of short-staffed, under-funded,
small museums. She co-founded the Boston Area Collections Coalition,
a networking and resource-sharing group for local collections
professionals. 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)
Kenneth C. Turino holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching, Museum
Education, from George Washington University. He is Exhibitions
Manager 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.
Kathleen Weiler, Ph.D.
Education advisor - Museum Studies certificate
Kathleen Weiler is a Professor in the Education Department at Tufts
University. She received her B.A. from Stanford University, a M.A.T.
from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her Ed.D. from
Boston University. She teaches courses in the philosophy and history
of education. She has served as Chair of the Education Department
and is Director of the Masters in Educational Studies program as
well as
acting as liaison to the Museum Education program. Weiler's research
has focused on the democratic possibilities of education,
particularly in relation to questions of gender. She has employed a
number of approaches in her research, reflecting her own
multidisciplinary training. Her first book, Women Teaching for
Change (1987), used an
ethnographic approach to explore the lives of teachers who
identified themselves as feminists and who sought to encourage
social change through their teaching. She broadened her study of
women teachers in her second book, Country Schoolwomen (1998), an
historical study of the lives of women teachers in rural California.
She has also published a number of edited collections. She is now
engaged in work on a joint
biography of two California women educators, Helen Heffernan and
Corinne Seeds, who attempted to enact Deweyan and progressive ideas
in the public schools of California. While her major research focus
for the past few years has been historical, she has continued to
contribute theoretical and philosophical analyses of education,
particularly on the work of Paulo Freire. She contributed an essay
on Freire in her edited collection Feminist Engagements (2002), a
collection of feminist critiques of major educational and cultural
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