{"id":53,"date":"2015-02-26T03:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umdmuseumcert.wordpress.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2023-11-14T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:21:40","slug":"alumni-of-msmc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/msmc.umd.edu\/index.php\/about-the-certificate\/alumni-of-msmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Certificate is proud to have graduate students from various disciplines join our growing list of alumni. Some have continued in the museum field while others have pursued other avenues.<\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

Ashleigh Cannata<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>We Are Still Here – Developing a Lesson Plan for the Piscataway Conoy Tribe of Maryland<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Piscataway Conoy Tribe<\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa Carney<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> A Morrill Reckoning: Acknowledging the Indigenous Lands that Funded UMD<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> University of Maryland Libraries and Special Collections<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Christian Folk<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Theatre and Performance Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> \u201cThis One\u2019s For the Culture\u201d: Contemporary Composers\u2019 Decolonial Reworkings of Traditional Wind Band Genres<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> The University of Maryland Special Collections in Performing Arts<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Susannah Holliday<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Imaging Self: The Michael D. Harris Collection at the David C. Driskell Center<\/span>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> The David C. Driskell Center<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maureen Jones<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>History Through Her Lens: A Descriptive Bibliography of Early Black Woman Photographers<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Grace Dahye Kwon<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> AAPI in DC Digital Exhibition<\/span>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian’s Center For Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the 1882 Foundation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Christiana McClain<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> I Have a Feeling for It: A Literary Exhibition on Lucille Clifton<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> The Clifton House<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lucy Medley<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Historic Preservation
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Uncovering the History of Enslaved Labor at the White House: Hidden Stories<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Brianna Melgar<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>Archaeological Interpretations of O’odham Resistance and Persistence During Missionization at Guevavi<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Borderlandia and the University of Maryland<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kitty Morrill<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Reprocessing Bronislava Nijinska: Improving User Experience<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> The Library of Congress<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hallie Oines<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> An Environmental Survey of the Library of Congress\u2019s Arabic Miniature Collection<\/span><\/em>
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> The Library of Congress<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stewart Williams<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology & Historic Preservation
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Heart of the Table: Systemic Racism in Museums & Community Activism<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

Emily Moore<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Ethical Guidelines for the Study of Human Remains: A Study in Review
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Newberry College<\/span><\/p>\n

Devon Murtha<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Historic Preservation
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> 250 Perches South-Southwest of a Memory: Recovering Lost History at Concord Manor Historic Site
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Concord Manor Historic Site<\/span><\/p>\n

Margalit Pelta-Pauls<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Blue Cornflower Porcelain: Exhibiting Historical Production at Monticello
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Monticello<\/span><\/p>\n

Christin Washington<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Go Good: A Digital Service\/Spiritual Ceremony Borrowing from the Transnational Account of a Guyanese Woman
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> AADHum, UMD<\/span><\/p>\n

2021<\/p>\n

Lauren Carter-Cain<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> \u201cHere Come the Brides: First World War Imagery at the National Archives\u201d
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> National Archives and Records Administration<\/span><\/p>\n

Omar Eaton-Martinez<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Afro-Latinx Identity Tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
\n Practicum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/span><\/p>\n

Allison Hedges<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0Theater and Performance Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Triumph of Isabella: Exploring Performance through Art
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library<\/p>\n

Wanda Hern\u00e1ndez<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Between Archives and Performance: Using Performance Theories to Examine Undocumented Central American Archives
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0University of Maryland Archives<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenna Hernly<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Visitors Respond: Emotional Responses and Personal Connections at an Art Museum
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

Samantha Matera<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Materiality and Education in Baltimore County: A Case Study of Texas, Maryland
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Baltimore County Historical Society<\/span><\/p>\n

Stan Maxson<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Black Bottom: A South Nashville Neighborhood in the Nineteenth Century
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Middle Tennessee State University, Public History Dept<\/span><\/p>\n

Aryn Neurock Schriner<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Calling to Account: History and Accessibility with the Eckley Miners’ Village Cell Phone Tour
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Eckley Miners’ Village Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

Elaina Snyder<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History & iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>Postcolonial Museums and Indigenous Institutions: Traditional Care as Perservation Practice
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Museo de Pariti (Bolivia) and Sealaska Heritage Institute (US)<\/span><\/p>\n

Joana Stillwell<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>Unsilencing Films: Sharing Authority and Representing Creatorship in the Archive
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Wachtel<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> The Preservation Maryland Archives at the University of Maryland: A Case Study in Archival Outreach
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> The Preservation Maryland Archives at the University of Maryland<\/span><\/p>\n

2020
\nJoel Carlson<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Building the “Model T of the Air”: Engineering and Research Corporation’s Revolution in Air Transportation
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0College Park Aviation Museum<\/p>\n

Danielle Moler<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Adapting Through Displacement: Museums, Programming, and the Virtual Third Place
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Poster House, New York<\/p>\n

2019<\/p>\n

Tricia Glaser<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Discovering the African American History of Greenbelt, MD
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Greenbelt Museum<\/p>\n

Miriam Hiebert<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Material Science and Engineering
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Kerst Family\/Smithsonian National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Kevin\u00a0Kim<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Food, Trauma, and Immigration at the National Museum of American History
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Smithsonian National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Madga Mankel<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Smithsonian National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

K. Sarah Ostrach<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> National Gallery digital archives of Chinese materials (held by University of Michigan)
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> National Gallery of Art<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Reilly<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Mission, Metrics, and Metadata in Museum Practice
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens<\/p>\n

Martha Schmidt<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0A Collection of Depth & Length: Reassembling the 30,000 Volume Library of Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro at the Library of Congress
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Library of Congress<\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

Bimbola Akinbola<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Sarah\u00a0Downard<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Archaeological Field Schools as Community Heritage Engagement: How Participants Perceive their Place within the Project and Community
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Arendus’s Gotland Archaeology Field School (Sweden)<\/p>\n

Julia Folk<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0iSchool
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Cataloguing of Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel photographic collection
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Maryland State Archives<\/p>\n

Kevin Macdonald<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Fire-spitting Masks and Yoruba Twin Magic: Interpreting African Objects in Art and Anthropology Museum Collections
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Driskell Center for African American Art<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

Catherine Daniels<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Her Ladyship immediately proceeded to prepare the delicious drink with her own hands: A Material Culture Analysis of Punch at Mt. Vernon
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Mount Vernon<\/p>\n

Sarah Hartge<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Sandy Spring Mutual Improvement Association 1857-1907 Women’s Association records organized for digital accessibility
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Sandy Spring Museum<\/p>\n

Schillica Howard<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Hair Stories Untold: Using Objects from the Smithsonian’s NMAAHC
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/p>\n

Andrea Vercoe<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Ethnomusicology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Sonic Activism: A 21st Century Update of the 1990 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife’s Music’s of Struggle Program
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian Folklife Festival<\/p>\n

2016
\nLeah Bush<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Beyond Representation: Performance Ethnography and the Research and Presentation of Cultures at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage<\/p>\n

Sarah Janesko\u00a0<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> A review of the Mount Calvert Historical and Archaeological Park and Museum
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, Prince George\u2019s County Parks and Recreation, Archaeology Program<\/p>\n

2015
\nPhilip Byrd<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Walter Olencz: A Journey Through the Merchant Marine During WWII
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> S.S. John W. Brown Liberty Ship<\/p>\n

Greg Kenyon<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic<\/strong>: From Publications to Exhibitions: The Changing Role of the Museum in the 20th Century
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Patricia Markert<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Anthropology, Archaeology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>The Role of Collaboration in Museum Scholarship: Exploring Themes of History, Memory, Family, and\u00a0Place at Timbuctoo, New Jersey
\nPracticum Institution: <\/strong>Timbuctoo Community<\/p>\n

2014
\nAaron Bryant<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> World War II and the Resonant Cavity Magnetron
\nPracticum Institution: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennie Terman<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> Music, Ethnomusicology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic: <\/strong>Carrying the Load: Children’s Involvement in Festival Music and Dance in Japan’s Aging Society
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian’s Museum Support Center
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013
\nEnnis Barbery<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Cultural Landscapes of Greenbelt: Telling Stories of Community and Division in a Local Museum
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Greenbelt Museum<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Kramer Reul<\/span>
\nDepartment:<\/strong> History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> The Mobilization of the Museum: The Smithsonian Institution and the Great War
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n

2012
\nTom Hardej<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>Historic Preservation
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Cultural Landscape: A Reinterpretation of the 20th Century DuPont Landscape at James Madison’s Montpelier
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> James Madison’s Montpelier<\/p>\n

Shane Walsh<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Athletic Philanthropy, History, and Trends in Black Athletes “Helping Others”
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/p>\n

2011
\nMolly Russell<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Understanding Identity Through Collection Practices
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Jenna Zimmerman<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> The Rosewell Plantation Artifact Collection at the NMAH
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

2010
\nAmy Carattini<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>Anthropology
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> To Belong: Life Histories of Immigrants in Prince Georges County
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Prince Georges County Museum of the Immigrant<\/p>\n

Anna Doorenbos<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>History Library of Science
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Docent Guide To Be Called To Serve: Representations of Women in the NMAH’s Price of Freedom Exhibit
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Helena Iles<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>History Library of Science
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Nordic Ware: American Business, Domesticity, and Ethnic Stories
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong>\u00a0National Museum of American History<\/p>\n

Emily Jin Unrue<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> A Case of Mistaken Identity: One Object’s Journey from Antiquity to the Present
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Smithsonian Institution Offsite Storage, Suitland<\/p>\n

2009
\nRobb Hernandez<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> unknown
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Stamp Student Union Gallery<\/p>\n

Teresa Moyer<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Walking Tour Mount Clare and Georgia in Carroll Park, Baltimore
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Mount Clare Historic Site, Baltimore<\/p>\n

Amelia Wong<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Online Museums: Discovering Their Variety, Significance, and Potential
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Center for History and New Media, GMU<\/p>\n

2008
\nJaime Layne<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Child’s Play: The Evolution of Children’s Toys and Games from Antiquity to the Modern Era
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Amazement Square in Lynchburg<\/p>\n

2006
\nAnne Grulich<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>American Studies
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Charles Ball’s Narrative of Life as a Slave and The Sukeek’s Cabin Site
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum<\/p>\n

Rob Williams<\/span>
\nDepartment:\u00a0<\/strong>History
\nPracticum Title\/Topic:<\/strong> Reconstructing the Interlocking Block Tower at the Bowie Railroad Museum
\nPracticum Institution:<\/strong> Bowie Railroad Museum<\/p>\n

2004
\nMelinda Snarr<\/span>
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