Resume

• 2001

  Master of Arts - MA

  History

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  History

  specializing in South Asia

  The University of Texas at Austin

• 1996

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  History and International Studies

  with a minor in Hindi

  University of Washington

• Wilton Historical Society

  Collections Committee

  Board Member

  G&B Cultural Foundation

  Volunteer assistant and acting co-curator

  Wilton History Room

  Research

  Writing

  Interpersonal Skills

  Easily Adaptable

  Editing

  Creativity Skills

  Higher Education

  Exhibit Design Consulting

  Public Speaking

  Exhibit and collections curating

  Animal Kingdoms: Hunting

  the Environment

  and Power in the Indian Princely States

  Animal Kingdoms: Hunting

  the Environment

  and Power in the Indian Princely States

  Thinking with the Indian Pangolin

  Hannah Raymond Ambler (1843-1925) was a Wilton resident who owned a large farm and multiple rental properties in southern Fairfield County in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Like so many other women in Connecticut State and across the country

  she voted for the first time in the 1920 presidential election. But how exactly did she arrive at that point? What steps did this locally prominent

  well-to-do widow

  mother

  and businesswoman take on her personal path to enfranchisement

  and how did her journey bring her into contact with other

  more famous suffragists like Grace Knight Schenck of Wilton

  and the Hill sisters of Norwalk? This paper traces how Ambler’s personal conception of the ideal “most excellent” woman—an ideal shaped by her experiences as a mother and wife and developed further through her active membership with her sister Elizabeth Raymond in women’s clubs

  eventually including both the Wilton Equal Franchise League and the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association—ultimately led her to the polls. Evidence is drawn from Ambler’s scrapbooks

  diaries

  and correspondence preserved in the Wilton History Room and at the Wilton Historical Society

  relevant digitized and microfilmed newspapers

  and additional research completed at the Connecticut State Archives

  the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections

  and in the Hill Family Papers at Vassar College’s Catherine Pelton Durrell ‘25 Archives and Special Collections Library.

  “My First Vote”: Hannah Raymond Ambler of Wilton

  Conn.

  Curating and designing six small display case exhibits relating to the 125th anniversary of the Wilton Library

  which will be shown during the 2020-2021 year.

  Suffrage Marker Grant Program

  Working with the Town of Wilton as researcher and grant writing consultant on a bid for a local suffrage history marker from the state of Connecticut.

  \"India in Miniature\" at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

  Newspaper review of an art show I co-curated in 2017.

  Wilton History Room / Connecticut Archives Online

  Wilton Bulletin article on the CAO project and my involvement in it.

  Hughes

  Julie

  Hughes

  Queens College

  Wilton History Room

  G&B Cultural Center

  Friends of Ambler Farm

  Vassar College

  Wilton

  Connecticut

  Cataloging items and organizing the archives of the Gilbert & Bennett School

  the Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Company

  and the Georgetown neighborhood.

  Archivist & Curator

  G&B Cultural Center

  New York

  Teaching summer courses in South Asian history.

  Adjunct Associate Professor

  Queens College

  Poughkeepsie

  New York

  Vassar College

  History Consultant

  Wilton

  Connecticut

  Friends of Ambler Farm

  Wilton History Room

  Wilton

  Connecticut

  Curating new accessions

  managing existing collections

  producing finding aids and inventories to be hosted by Connecticut Archives Online

  and providing research assistance to patrons.

  Archivist