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As a historical interpreter, curator, oral historian and writer, I specialize in creative, immersive interventions that connect visitors to place and meaning. I love interrogating white womanhood, gender and historiography, motherhood and childbirth, landscape and environment, and historic revivalism. My research background in long-19th century New England connects with the historic preservation movement, so I am also at home talking about earlier periods, particularly in relation to the antiquarians who collected, studied, and remembered them. I never have climate change and deep-time history out of my sights, because the pace of global change means that the past is now, and remembering, mourning, and telling stories for the future is part of a historian’s work.
Annsisters is available for creative residencies that combine site-specific storytelling interventions, live interpretation and programming with my own writing and research. The annsisters library (also called the Lost Library of Latona), which includes my personal collection of both contemporary and antiquarian books, can be included in a pop-up or installation. Annsisters can also provide consulting and workshops.
Annsisters began with residencies at:
deCordova Art Museum (Researcher-in-Residence 2021, pictured)
Fruitlands Museum (women’s history month talk 2020 and exhibition catalogue essay)
History Cambridge (“at home with the revivalists” research residency 2020)
It continues:
Spring 2023 residency at Brown University Public Humanities