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Conversations on the Commons: Connections Between Local Historical Societies and Academics
October 22, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Town Meets Gown: Connections Between Local Historical Societies and Academics
October 22, 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
How can academic scholars and local museums and historical societies work together? Has your museum worked with scholars and/or researchers? Do you have a long term working relationship with a researcher or public history scholar? What have they worked on for you? How do academics work with historical societies? Have you (scholar or museum) received a grant to do this work? What about student researchers and internship programs? What benefits can they provide to museums, and how can museums cultivate these relationships with students and scholars to further their mission and goals? Join us for a conversation with Melissa M. Cybulski, Vice President of the Longmeadow Historical Society; Maryann Zujewski, Education Specialist at Salem Maritime and Saugus IronWorks National Historic Sites; Bethany Jay, Associate Professor of History at Salem State University; Brad Austin, Professor of History at Salem State University; and Jane Becker, Director of Public History at University of Massachusetts Boston. The conversation will be moderated by Margo Shea, Associate Professor of History at Salem State University.
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This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Melissa M. Cybulski is Vice President of the Longmeadow Historical Society and has researched, written and presented extensively for them on topics such as Early Black Lives in Longmeadow, Longmeadow during the Suffrage Movement, The Storrs Family and the American School for the Deaf, and a variety of other topics large and small. She has an M.Ed in English Education and has worked as an interpreter in several museums including The Emily Dickinson Museum and The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
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- Margo Shea is Associate Professor of History at Salem State University, where she teaches public history, Irish history and world history, oversees a public history certificate program and supervises internships for History majors. She is the author of Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland and several articles and chapters in anthologies on heritage, memory and collaborative practice. At the heart of her work is a commitment to sharing the tools of public history in ways that center listening in our explorations of the past and do not ignore the larger structures around which memory and identity take and change shape
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- Brad Austin is a professor of history and a secondary education coordinator at Salem State University, where he teaches classes on New England and Slavery, United States history, the Vietnam War, and sports history. He has authored and co-edited three books, and he is a series editor for the University of Wisconsin Press’s Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History.
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- Maryann Zujewski has worked for the National Park Service for over 25 years. She is currently the Education Specialist at Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works National Historic Sites. Her professional focus is on standards-based education programs, teacher professional development, place-based service learning, and community-based partnerships. Her most recent work in education at Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works centers on the history of slavery, freedom, and race–looking back in order to move forward.
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- As Director of Public History for the History MA program at University of Massachusetts Boston, Jane Becker develops and nurtures the program’s community partnerships, supervises student internships with cultural organizations, and teaches public history. Before coming to UMass Boston in 2010, Dr. Becker worked in exhibition and program planning and as a historian for a wide range of museums and public humanities endeavors in New England, in venues ranging from large and small history museums both nationally and locally focused; state arts and humanities councils; local and federal historic sites and parks; universities; and local preservation commissions. From 2016-2019, she served as Massachusetts team leader for AASLH’s Leadership in History Awards, rejuvenating her passion for supporting the history endeavors of local organizations and communities. She is a believer in and witness to the potential of history in transforming communities and empowering citizens, and an enthusiastic supporter of the public humanities. She received her PhD in American Studies from Boston University.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.