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Positions
Inaugural director of $10 million center that brings history to bear on contemporary global issues
Program Specialist, The John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress
Managed programs and communications for the scholars center inside the Library of Congress
Liaison Specialist, Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
Collected the stories of America's war veterans for the nation's largest oral history project
Assistant Curator, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Exhibits "New York: City of Refuge" and award-winning "Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War"
Honoraries
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Senior Fellow at the nation's top-rated small think
Expert, U.S. Department of State
Exchanges with embassies around the world as part of U.S. State Department programs
Initiatives
History Communication
Founder and creator of international effort to create new sub-field of History
International Network for History and Policy
Founding member of international network dedicated to infusing history into policymaking
Open Scholarship Initiative
Summit group member of UNESCO-backed effort to make academic journal scholarship more accessible
HuMetricsHSS
Invited participant in initiative to alter value structures in the humanities
Oral History Association 50th anniversary
Task force to commemorate OHA's 50th anniversary
National History Day
Judge for national competition and sponsor of Philadelphia National History Day
MUSE
Judge for MUSE technology awards of the American Alliance of Museums
Boards
Editorial Board, "Made by History," The Washington Post
Editorial board for The Washington Post's history blog, "Made by History" section
Presidential Counselors, The National WWII Museum
Counselor to the President and CEO of the National World War Museum
Providing scholarships and mentoring to immigrant students
Advocating for oral history from New York through Virginia
Program Commitee of the National History Center, a project of the American Historical Association
Editorial Board, H-OralHist
Board member for H-Net Listserv devoted to oral history
Workshops
Society of American Archivists
Full-day history communication workshop for the Society of American Archivists
American Association for State and Local History
Half-day history communication workshop for the American Association for State and Local History
University of Michigan
Half-day history communication workshop at the University of Michigan
Future of History in the Liberal Arts
Two-day workshop sponsored by the American Association of Liberal Arts Colleges
Altmetric
Webinar on building your scholarly reputation
Past projects
Museo Judio de Sosua
Created the archive of the Jewish museum in Sosua, Dominican Republic
Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame
Helped create the libray and archives of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame
"Lincoln and New-York"
Research historian on critically-acclaimed exhibition on President Lincoln and New York
Barbara Goldsmith Archives
Created the archive of author/philanthropist Barbara Goldsmith for the New York Public Library
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Project registrar for "Have You Eaten Yet?" exhibition
Center for Jewish History
Curated exhibit on Iraqi Jews for the American Sephardi Federation
"Holocaust By Bullets"
Coordinated U.S. premier of the French exhibition, "Holocaust by Bullets"
"Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War"
Coordinated travel version of award-winning exhibition
Yeshiva University
Implemented new systems and business processes at Yeshiva University
St. Thomas Museum and Library
Directed documentary film for opening of library's inaugural exhibit
Lectures & Talks (partial list)
Academia.edu
Creative Mornings
CUNY Graduate Center
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan
Embassy of Lithuania in the United States
Franklin Inn Literary Club
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jewish Historical Society of New York
Library of Congress
Macalester College
Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France
Mykolas Romeris University
Queens College
Sciences Po Bordeaux
St. John's University
Université de Poitiers
U.S. Embassy, Paris
Vilnius University
Vytautas Magnus University
Wayne State University
West Chester University