Museum Education

- Museums and Digital Media (Fall)
Dana Allen-Greil is Director of Digital Strategy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Dana has led web and social media efforts at the National Archives, National Gallery of Art, Ogilvy Public Relations, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

- Curatorial Approaches to Collections Management (Fall)
Julia Courtney has more than twenty years of experience in the museum field, in museum education and curatorial practices. Most recently she served as Curator of Art for two art museums, the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, part of the Springfield Museums consortium in Western Massachusetts.

- Museums Today: Mission and Function (Fall), Museum Studies Practicum (Summer)
Most recently, Cara Iacobucci served as guest curator at the Lynn Museum & Historical Society for the exhibition titled Different Journeys, Common Bonds: The Greek Community in Lynn. She has held positions and internships at Historic New England, The Paul Revere House, The Fuller Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Vose Galleries.

- Exhibition Planning (Spring)
As a museum planner and exhibition developer, Matt Kirchman works with museum staff and administrators, architects, and designers to craft the communication and experiential aims for museums and exhibitions.

- Museum Evaluation (Summer)
Joy Kubarek is a Senior Research Associate with PEER Associates, an education research and evaluation consulting firm. She has conducted scientific field research and led research expeditions but the bulk of her career has focused on research and evaluation of science education. 

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- Museum History and Theory (Fall)
Andrew McClellan has been a member of the Museum Studies faculty since the program's inception. His scholarly research, and teaching contribution to the program, focuses on the history and theory of museums. He is the author of three museum-related books: Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1994); Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (2003); and The Art Museum From Boullee to Bilbao (2007).

Ingrid A. Neuman is a Conservator of three-dimensional artifacts in private practice. Prior to establishing her own private practice, Neuman held the position of Head of Sculpture Conservation at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Williamstown, Massachusetts where she also taught in the Graduate Art History Department at Williams College. 

For twelve years, George Schwartz was a curator in the Maritime Art & History and Exhibitions & Research departments at the Peabody Essex Museum, and currently serves as curatorial scholar. During his museum career, George has created exhibitions, publications, public programs, and interactive media designed to shape the way we think about our world through our interaction with material culture. 

Kenneth C. Turino Turino is responsible for developing and managing Historic New England's traveling exhibition program. Projects have included the critically acclaimed collaboration with MASS MoCA, Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England; America's Kitchens; The Camera's Coast, and the award-winning From Dairy to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England 1860-1960. 

Tara Young is an independent museum professional who has worked in the field for more than 20 years. Previously, she served as Deputy Director at the Museum of Russian Icons, Director of Education at the Higgins Armory Museum, Associate Curator of Education at the Tacoma Art Museum, and Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.