Resume

• 2002

  Amherst

  Swift River Valley Historical Society

  Smithsonian Institution

  National Museum of American History

  Mount Holyoke College

  UMass Amherst

  Amherst

  Massachusetts

  I teach public history

  U.S. women's history

  and history of health care and medicine in the US. I have taught a Junior Year Writing Seminar titled Disasters in American History

  1850-1970.

  Adjunct Faculty in History

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Washintgon

  DC

  Deputy director of 40-member Department of Public Programs and director of education division which produced tours

  school and outreach programs

  educational publications

  hands-on exhibits

  public programs

  and children's history magazine. \nAs an education specialist

  I developed hands-on history room

  \"Senior Series\" outreach for elderly

  promoted museum access

  and conducted audience research and evaluation.

  Deputy Assistant Director for Public Programs

  Smithsonian Institution

  National Museum of American History

  Amherst

  MA

  Project director for Artifact Stories outreach program for seniors in which we bring artifacts from the Amherst History Museum and the Jones Library to teach about the past

  spark memories

  and encourage creative writing. This grant-funded program was wildly successful

  and I encourage others to replicate it. I am happy to share our experience.

  Independent Consultant

  UMass Amherst

  New Salem

  Massachusetts

  Working with museum board and staff to care for this important collection from the four towns that were disincorporated in 1938 and flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Catalogued oral history collection in preparation for digitization.

  Museum Consultant

  Swift River Valley Historical Society

  Holyoke

  MA

  I teach the history component of the Clemente Course in the Humanities to local women in economic distress. They receive credit through Bard College.

  History Professor

  Clemente Course in the Humanities

  Mount Holyoke College

  I am currently writing about how women in the 19th

  20th

  and 21st centuries reflect on caregiving

  aging

  and end-of-life experiences.

  Research Associate

  Five College Women's Studies Research Center

  Western Massachusetts & Northwestern Connecticut

  Writing Management Plan and Interpretive Plan

  Writer/Consultant

  Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

  Greenfield

  MA

  I teach History of the American People to 1865

  and post-1865

  online.

  Adjunct Professor in History

  Greenfield Community College

  Author of award-winning In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874 (Free Press

  2004) and award-winning Amherst A to Z: Amherst

  Massachusetts

  1759-2009 (Amherst Historical Society).\nLecture

  lead book groups and college courses for teachers in Teaching American History grant programs

  Amherst

  Scholar-in-Residence

  Archives and Special Collections

  I continued researching 19th-century women writing about end-of-life experiences.

  Mount Holyoke College

• 1985

  Cooperstown Graduate Program

  SUNY Oneonta

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  History Museum Studies

  Ph.D.

  American History

  University of Delaware

• Community Outreach

  Library

  Writing

  Grants

  Archives

  History

  Art Exhibitions

  Grant Writing

  Editing

  Museums

  Publications

  Books

  Museum Collections

  Research

  Teaching

  Libraries

  American History

  In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874

  In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874

  Amherst A to Z: Amherst

  Massachusetts

  1759-2009

  Elizabeth

  Sharpe

  Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Clemente Course in the Humanities

  Mount Holyoke College

  Greenfield Community College