Over twenty years of professional experience in
• Local history museum management
• Historical publishing
• Historical education, interpretation and historical programming
• Historical research and editing
• Collections and archives management
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Illinois Woman’s Press Association, Mate E. Palmer Communications Prize for Nonfiction Book-History, for The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago, 2009
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National Association of Press Women, Communications Contest Prize for Nonfiction, Book-History, for The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago, 2009
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Illinois State Historical Society, “Superior Achievement” award, for The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago, 2009
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South Suburban Heritage Association (Homewood, IL), Distinguished Friend of South Suburban Heritage Award, 2009
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Certificate of Appreciation, Lincoln Highway Coalition
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Phi Alpha Theta, International Honor Society in History
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Illinois Woman’s Press Association, Mate E. Palmer Communications Prize for Nonfiction Book-History, for Along the Calumet River, 2005
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| PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS |
- Calumet City Historical Society, Past President
- South Suburban Heritage Association, charter member, former director
- Historical Community of Northwest Indiana
- Calumet Heritage Partnership, Board member
- South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
- Lincoln Highway Association, Illinois Chapter Board member
- Hammond Historical Society
- Calumet Ecological Park Association
- South Holland Historical Society
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M.A., U.S. History, Purdue University
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B.A., Philosophy, Rosary College of Dominican University
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Great Tours workshop, Illinois Association of Museum
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Photo Digitization workshop, Historical Community of Northwest Indiana
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Photo Digitization workshop, Illinois Association of Museums
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Seminar for Historical Administration at Colonial Williamsburg
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Heritage Tourism Institute, Illinois State University
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Cultural Diversity in Colonial Illinois, Illinois State University
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Museum Publishing Seminar, U. of Chicago Publishing Program, American Assn of Museums and the Art Institute of Chicago
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Mexican art history, Universidad Ibero-Americana, Mexico City
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