Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL)
Combining my skills as a public historian, curator, theatre-maker, and educator, my role as Director of Heritage and Interpretation at the ISJL was a wonderful challenge. I was responsible for public-facing Jewish historical and interpretive programming throughout a thirteen-state region, from Texas to the Carolinas. I produced and hosted the podcast Southern & Jewish, organized and guided our Southern Jewish Heritage Tours, and managed Temple B'nai Israel, a historic synagogue in Natchez, Mississippi. In fact, I won a Save America's Treasures grant from the National Park Service to preserve the temple in perpetuity. My six years at the ISJL also made me fall in love with Mississippi and decide to continue my career here.
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Southern & Jewish is a digital tour through the history and culture of the Jewish South. My favorite episodes explore the hard truths of southern history, especially stories about the ongoing fight for civil rights. Two of my favorite episodes are linked below.
This episode explores the early Jewish history of south Florida through the lens of the Stephen Sondheim musical Road Show—a story of boom and bust, of destruction and creation, of capitalism and its discontents.
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This episode unpacks the complicated legacy of Rabbi Milton Grafman and his 1963 Rosh Hashanah sermon, delivered in the days following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.
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Glasnevin Cemetery Museum
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Selected projects:
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Carleton College History Department
I combined my work as a Writing Consultant, my museum experience, and my training as a historian to deliver unique support to a Carleton history professor as a Student Exhibition Assistant. I coordinated an exhibition exploring word and image in medieval manuscripts; assisted with designing, writing, curating, and installing the exhibition; and led a class session about producing effective exhibition narratives.
I presented a paper on my work as a Student Exhibition Assistant at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in October 2014. |
National Museum of American Jewish HistorySelected projects:
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Mercer Museum & Library and Fonthill CastleAs an archival intern at the Spruance Library at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, I spent the summer of 2013 developing an over-100 page research guide for the Library's collection of Bucks County Courthouse records, spanning from the late 1600s to the 1970s.
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