Discussion of the Unfinished Revolution: Place, Environment, and Social Justice in the 250th - Live Webinar

Marian Carpenter has experience in heritage preservation with emphasis in collections management, exhibition development, curation, community outreach, historic research, and interpretative programming.  As a public historian, she enjoys building relationships with community historians, local museums, and churches to connect the importance of object preservation with the documentation of oral histories. Carpenter is interested in inclusive storytelling and learning about shared histories.  She is also doing research on the emotional trauma associated with historic sites and cultural collections that represent African American, Asian American, and Indigenous communities.

Ms. Carpenter is currently the Director of Interpretation at Conner Prairie Living History Museum.  She is the vice chair of the AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee and serves on the AASLH Climate and Sustainability Committee. Carpenter holds a Master of Arts in American history with a concentration in African American history from the University of Cincinnati.

Debra Reid is curator of agriculture and the environment at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, and a member of the Climate & Sustainability Affinity Group of AASLH. She is also professor emerita at Eastern Illinois University. She is author of numerous articles and books focused on agricultural history and African American history and has written or edited three books in the AASLH Interpreting History series: Reid, Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites (2017); Reid and Vail, Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites (2019); and Reid co-edited with Scholthof and Vail, Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites (forthcoming 2023).

Kimberly Robinson works at the Harpers Ferry Center for Interpretive Media as a Staff Curator and Planner. She prior to joining HFC she served as a Museum Curator at the George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP), a National Park Service (NPS) unit in the Washington Metropolitan Area that includes Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial and Clara Barton National Historic Site. She graduated from the George Washington University’s Museum Studies Graduate Program with a Master of Arts degree with a concentration in Collections Management in 2006. She currently serves as a co-chair of the American Association of State and Local History’s Women’s History Affinity Community and as a member of their Climate and Sustainability Affinity Community. Her research interests are focused on 19th Century Fine and Decorative Arts as well as architecture, in particular the art, architecture and design of the Victorian Era. Ms. Robinson has given numerous talks on historic homes and museum collections management and recently taught collections management at the George Washington University.