Teaching

Let’s do this!

As a researcher of museum studies, public history, and visitor engagement, I bring my scholarship into the classroom. Visit some of the links below to learn more.

• Work in support of our partnership with Genesee Country Village & Museum:
  • Faces of RIT: Landyn Hatch, class of 2020, 3d printed hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oj9z9jDcyc.
  • About our museum partnership https://soundcloud.com/rittigers/intersections-the-rit-podcast-ep-33-museum/s-LGDQ2 – an interview with Dean Jamie Winebrake, December 2019
  • XR and Museums project playlist, showing works-in-progress of our working group [Juilee Decker, Amanda Doherty, Joe Geigel, and Gary Jacobs] in partnership with the musem: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlDO1-k7HvWNc9dYjXYbaWSd1IhagRx6q
• Cross-disciplinary work with students from Kate Gleason College of Engineering at RIT:
  • https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/behold-the-renaissance-bookwheel This bookwheel is on view in our library on campus, and it’s stellar. Come see it!
  • https://edge.rit.edu/edge/P18510/public/Home (requires RIT authentication to view), 2018, bookwheel project mentioned immediately above.
  • https://edge.rit.edu/edge/P19432/public/Home (requires RIT authentication to view), 2019, Sonic Damage Assessment in partnership with GCV&M
  • https://edge.rit.edu/edge/P19454/public/Home (requires RIT authentication to view), 2019, Murphy’s Stage – Stage Innovation for museum/hall of fame
  • http://edge.rit.edu/edge/P20742/public/Home (requires RIT authentication to view), 2020, Maintenance Tracking System in partnership with GCV&M
• Projects we work on: an NEH-funded grant in the Imaging Science Program that we are supporting! https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-building-imaging-systems-help-libraries-and-museums-uncover-lost-texts Images from 2021 work below.

Information about RIT’s museum studies/public history program and liberal arts at RIT

• Discover Museum Studies at RIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DisG0-V7DQU — learn about what we do! Hear from me and undergrad student Courtney!
• Information about our program: https://www.rit.edu/study/museum-studies-bs