Head of PHW Advisory Board

Clarissa Ceglio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut, where she is also Associate Director of Research for Greenhouse Studios / Scholarly Communications Design. Her research interests are museum history and material culture studies, particularly as these relate to concepts of civic identity across the 20th century. She also collaborates with museums and archives on digital public history research projects. Ceglio came to academia after a career in communications. She holds degrees from Connecticut’s Trinity College (MA, American Studies) and Brown University (MA, Public Humanities; PhD, American Studies). She is a contributor to the open access volume Radical Roots: Public History and Social Justice (2021) and author of A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).

Clarissa Ceglio, Dr. phil., ist Professorin für Digital Humanities an der University of Connecticut, wo sie auch Associate Director of Research für Greenhouse Studios / Scholarly Communications Design ist. Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind Museumsgeschichte und Studien zur materiellen Kultur, insbesondere in Bezug auf Konzepte der bürgerlichen Identität im 20. Jahrhundert. Sie arbeitet auch mit Museen und Archiven an Forschungsprojekten zur Digital Public History. Ceglio kam nach einer Karriere in der Kommunikationsbranche zur Wissenschaft. Sie hat Abschlüsse vom Trinity College in Connecticut (MA, American Studies) und der Brown University (MA, Public Humanities; PhD, American Studies). Sie ist Mitautorin des Open-Access-Bandes Radical Roots: Public History and Social Justice (2021) und Autorin von A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
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