Class of 2011<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nEmily Carambelas ’11 (Archaeology and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology): While still a student and continuing after graduation, Emily worked at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of JHMI. She assisted with projects in JHU’s Office of Cultural Properties, including working as project registrar for Mark Dion’s “An Archaeology of Knowledge” and aiding in research for the anthropology department’s investigation of a set of busts produced during Franz Boas’ expeditions to the Pacific Northwest. During her senior year, Emily curated From Sacred to Secular: Collecting and Caring for Judaica, and participated in a related symposium the following year. She did a yearlong internship at the BMA, where she worked in the conservation department, and in February 2014 began working at the Ladew Topiary Garden as an independent contractor, arranging their archives and performing collection management duties. She also worked with Jackie O’Regan, Hopkins Curator of Cultural Properties, to develop a small installation at the MSE Library focused on the work of Dr. Gilbert Levin, who was the principal investigator of the Labeled Release Experiment on the Viking Mission to Mars. The installation opened in September 2014. Emily completed a masters program in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 2018. She is presently Senior Staff in the Dams Group at Schnabel Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yana Demireva ’11 (Anthropology): Yana is pursuing a master’s in applied anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dakota DeVos ’11 (History of Art): Dakota received a Fulbright to study in Germany during the academic year 2013-2014, where she pursued her MA in art history and museum studies. She was the recipient of a DAAD Grant, which is funding her second year of research on her master\u2019s at Humboldt University in Berlin. Read about her work on Museums and Society’s GoogleEarth project in 2009 here. Starting in March 2016, Dakota works as a curatorial assistant in the Modern and Contemporary Division at HUAM. In February 2018, she helped manage the installation of the exhibit, Inventur–Art in Germany, 1943-55, at the Harvard Art Museum. Dakota was a curatorial fellow in Contemporary Art at the MFA in 2018 and is now Manager of Creative Partnerships at the Public Art Fund in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elizabeth Dowdle (Lubben) ’11 (History of Science): After graduating from Hopkins, Elizabeth moved to Washington, D.C., to earn her master’s degree in museum studies from the George Washington University, focusing on museum administration. While a student, she held part-time jobs and internships at various institutions, including the National Museum of American History and Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. She completed her MA in May 2013 and is now the media relations coordinator at The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art. As an undergraduate at Hopkins, Elizabeth spearheaded the “Business of Culture” lecture series that sought to introduce students to new areas of museum theory and practice. She also contributed to the Walters Art Museum’s GoogleEarth “Art on the Move” project, with her research on the Capitoline Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pooja Ganesan ’11 (Anthropology): After graduation, Pooja moved to London to study for a master\u2019s in anthropology at Goldsmiths College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Courtney Leigh Harris ’11 (International Studies and History of Art): Courtney is currently the Curatorial Research Fellow in Decorative Arts & Sculpture in the Art of Europe department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since arriving at the museum in November 2014, she has worked on two major loan exhibitions, Della Robbia: Sculpting Color in Renaissance Florence (2016) and Casanova\u2019s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century (2018). She contributed to the accompanying exhibition catalogues for both exhibitions. She is also curating the forthcoming exhibition Murder in Miniature: The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, for the fall of 2018, as well as the exhibition Tiny Treasures for the MFA\u2019s touring exhibition program. Previously, she held a job at the Commission for Looted Art in London, see the full story here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beth Simmonds ’11 (Sociology): After graduation, Beth worked in special events and development at the National Postal Museum for two years. Passionate about working for an educational nonprofit and wanting to be closer to the “front lines” of education, Beth started her residency with Capital Teaching in D.C. in June 2013. She worked, up until 2016, at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School where she taught 1st and 4th grade after receiving her teaching certification through the Capital Teaching Residency. She recently took a new job as a 1st grade teacher at a KIPP:DC public charter school and is still keeping up with her museum and Hopkins alumni connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Szeto ’11 (Political Science): After a gap year of travel and volunteering at museums in Los Angeles, Michael attended law school at Washington University in St. Louis and then transferred to the New York University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor in May 2015. During law school, he worked on environmental and civil right issues, including LGBT rights, prisoners\u2019 rights, gender equality, reproductive justice, and fair housing. Michael completed his law school \u201cthesis\u201d on the copyright issues surrounding post-modern and contemporary choreography and dance. He frequently sends postcards from his travels and comes back to visit us in Baltimore\u2014something we really appreciate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lindsay Tauscher ’11 (History of Art and French): Having been awarded the Pinkard-Bolton Internship at the Homewood Museum in 2009 and the Michael and Nancy Lytell Internship at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2010, where she worked in the Department of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Pacific Islands, Lindsay went on to work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art after graduation. She subsequently moved to Washington, D.C., and became the first Center Arts intern at the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community. She also worked as an intern at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where she assisted in the production of the program Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt for the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class of 2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nSuzanne Gold ’10 (History of Art and Writing Seminars): After extending a summer 2010 internship at the Glenstone Foundation, Suzanne was hired in May 2011 as visitor services coordinator and archive assistant. She also works as a member of the curatorial team. Glenstone is a private collection of modern and contemporary art in Potomac, MD, just outside of Washington, D.C. Suzanne gained much applied museum experience while a student at Hopkins, where she worked on curatorial projects out of the Henry Sonneborn Collection of Judaica and at Evergreen Museum & Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kimberly (Skerritt) Harrell ’10 (Political Science): Kimberly spent her senior year working as an intern at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., and was hired in the fall of 2010 as the museum’s mobile learning project assistant. In this position, which is part of a larger initiative sponsored by the Pearson Foundation, Kim helped plan and provide workshops for teens and teachers to promote mobile learning throughout Smithsonian museums. After four years in this position, Kimberly transitioned to Volunteer and Intern Coordinator for the Postal Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Tkacs ’10 (History of Art): Joan earned an MA in art history from the University of Georgia, Athens. Her work for a 2009 course in Museums and Society is featured in the “Art on the Move” page of the Walters Art Museum website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class of 2009<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nSarah Abare ’09 (History of Art): Sarah was awarded the first Michael and Nancy Lytell Internship at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and spent the summer of 2009 working with the curatorial staff in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. She went on to receive an MA in art history from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2014. During the spring of 2013, she held an internship in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and European Paintings at UT’s Blanton Museum of Art, where she assisted the senior curator with the planning of the exhibition Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings at the Blanton. She also served as a graduate teaching fellow at the Blanton from September 2013 through May 2014. Sarah briefly worked as an administrative coordinator in the Education Department of the Blanton Museum. She is presently Education Programs Manager at the Walker Art Center where she has worked since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeremy Batoff ’09 (History of Art): Jeremy is a graduate of the School of Law at the University of Baltimore and continues to be very active in the Baltimore arts scene. His brother Justin, ’07, was also a student in our program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sara Dayton ’09 (Classics and History of Art): Sara spent 2009-2010 as an intern in the Editorial and Graphic Design Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as part of the PMA’s Museum Studies Internship Program. She entered the master\u2019s of science in publishing program at New York University in the fall of 2010, and is pursuing a career in the world of online museum publications. As part of her graduate studies, Sara worked as an intern in the Digital Media Department at MoMA. She is presently a Senior Manager at Creative Strategy at Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zarrah Keshwani ’09 (Neuroscience): Zarrah is pursuing a career in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nora Krinitsky ’09 (History): Nora spent 2009-2010 as a Kress Interpretative Fellowship at the Baltimore Museum of Art. There she worked on a website based on the BMA’s permanent collection and related to the Museums and Society course \u201cClose Looking at the BMA: ‘Rinaldo and Armida’.\u201d She received her PhD in History at the University of Michigan, in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University. She is presently the Interim Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jessica Popkin ’09 (Near Eastern Studies): After leaving Hopkins, Jessica entered the graduate program in museum studies at New York University, from which she received an MA. While at NYU, she worked as an intern in the Department of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum and worked to catalogue images and information from the NYU-IFA-Yale-UPenn archaeological dig in Abydos, Egypt. She is now the student outreach coordinator at the Princeton University Art Museum, where she has connected with another M&S alum, Hannah Weinberg-Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class of 2008<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nGillian Maguire ’08 (History): Gillian worked as a research assistant for objects within the Curatorial Department of James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange, Virginia, from 2008-2010, and went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in American studies at George Washington University. Since then she has worked as the Registrar for the museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia and as Registrar at the Science History Institute. In December 2018 she started a position at the Minnesota Historical Society in their heritage preservation grants program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Corey Sattler ’08 (Psychology): After two and a half years as communications officer for the associate vice president of student life at the American University in Cairo, Corey returned to the United States to work on an international art project, Firefly Tunnels, which opened in Pittsburgh in September 2011. In fall of 2013, he started a graduate program in information systems management at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whitney Shaffer ’08 (History of Art): After working for two years as the development assistant at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Whitney entered law school at the University of Maryland. She chose the university because of its art and law initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kirsi Tuomanen Hill ’08 (History of Art): After graduating from Hopkins, Kirsi moved on to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where she earned an MFA. She earned her MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College in 2014 and then started working as an art teacher in New York. She presently free-lances as an artist and educator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class of 2007<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nKatie Battick ’07 (History of Art): The first student to complete the minor in museums and society at Johns Hopkins, Katie went on to study in the graduate program in museum studies at George Washington University. After interning at the Smithsonian and working at GW’s Special Collections Research Center Katie started a job at Glenwood Systems LLC where she is presently the Executive Assistant to the CCO.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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