"Commemoration Reconsidered" - Day 2 - Closing Conversation
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Round out your experience at the Virtual Summit by attending the Closing Conversation, which will provide an opportunity to tie together the various themes of the event, consider takeaways and lingering questions, and discuss how the Virtual Summit’s lessons can be put into to practice in the field.
John Dichtl
President and CEO
American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
John Dichtl became AASLH President & CEO in 2015. Prior to that he was the executive director of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) for nine years, and worked for the Organization of American Historians for fourteen years as deputy director and in several other roles. John received his MA and PhD in early American history from Indiana University, and from 2006 to 2015 was an adjunct faculty member of the history department at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Before graduate school he worked for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He is a 2004 graduate of the Seminar for Historical Administration, a program that stems from an AASLH partnership with the Indiana Historical Society and other organizations. John helped to found the History Relevance Campaign, the International Federation for Public History, and is active in the National Coalition for History.
Michelle Lanier
Director, North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties
Michelle Lanier is an AfroCarolina folklorist, oral historian, museum professional, filmmaker, author, and educator with over two decades of commitment to her callings.
Michelle is a graduate of Spelman College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As the former, inaugural director of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, in 2018, Michelle was named as the first African American director of North Carolina's 26 state-owned historic sites, under the auspices of the state's Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
She has also served as faculty of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University since 2000 and as a Commissioner of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor since 2020.
Michelle is proud to lead, through the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties, a team increasingly committed to a value of True Inclusion.
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