Students' Work
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Winter 2009
Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, Dayton, OH
Jennifer Edwards recently completed her project with the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton (JFGD) where she helped establish an archive for the JFGD. Since the archive was created from the ground up, she not only received experience inventorying and processing collections, but also starting an archive. This included everything from ordering the appropriate storage material for artifacts and records to creating databases for the records. Jennifer gained valuable skills through her project with JFGD and hopes to continue working with them.
Jennifer Edwards while working on her project at JFGD.
Ohio Historical Center, Columbus, OH
Rachael (Williams) Bussert completed her internship in Research Services at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus. She was responsible for a flat storage inventory and inputting metadata into the W.H. Siebert Underground Railroad Collection on Contentdm. In unison with these projects, Rachael also performed public service activities such as paging and answering reference emails.
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Fall 2008
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Student Wendy Wagener is currently doing her internship with the Dayton Art Institute. She is working towards earning a Certificate in Museum Studies since she already has her Master's degree in Art Education. Wendy is about two-thirds of the way through her internship, working hours around her full-time teaching position. Her duties are varied, which she states has been great since it has given her a very well rounded view of how things work in an art museum setting. Wendy has primarily been working in the education department, under Shannon Crothers. In the Education department, she has performed a variety of tasks which include: worked to develop programming to address the needs of autistic youth (with a hope to have this program actually come to fruition before the end of the calendar year), taught two weeks of "art camp", met with We Care Arts in conjunction with the autistic/special needs programming, and researched programming for development for those with Alzheimer's. She has also met with the museum's registrar and business staff to gain knowledge in those positions as they may relate to her work later. Lastly, Wendy has been working on an ongoing archival project for the purpose of cataloging information related to the museum from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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Spring 2008
Wapakoneta Museum, Auglaize County Historical Society
Drawing on knowledge from hands-on classes such as Museum Collections and Administration and Artifact Conservation, students Daniel Schlegel and Andrea Green re-catalogued the many items held by the museum and historical society.
  
Click here to read an article featured in the Wapakoneta Daily News on April 18, 2008.
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Fall/Winter 2007-2008
From the Shirley Collection -- Cloth, Clothes, and the Yarns They Tell: Fabrics of Sierra Leone
Public History student Sam Ewing conducted research and created this exhibit, which was on display at United Theological Seminary from 21 September 2007 through 21 December 2007. It was then on display at Wright State University, in the Student Union Gallery, from 31 January 2008 through 29 February 2008. Several fellow students helped to install the exhibit at Wright State, along with alumnus Timothy Binkley, who supervised the project.
 
Installing the exhibit at WSU Sam prepares items for the exhibit.
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Fall 2007
Aviation History Educational Program
On October 5, 2007, a special event at Huffman Prairie Flying Field and at Wright Memorial celebrated the 102nd anniversary of practical flight by the Wright Brothers. Lisa Pasquinelli, an intern at WSU's Special Collections and Archives, developed an Aviation History lesson to present to students who attended this event. She created an aviation history timeline and then talked with students to help them discover how each event in the history of aviation led to the Wright Brothers' invention of the first practical airplane, as well as how the events influenced future flying machines. WSU Archivist John Armstrong and fellow students Tiffany O'Sheal and Andrea Green assisted Lisa with carrying out this program.
 
Lisa Pasquinelli shows off her great work! Tiffany O'Sheal and Andrea Green interact with students
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Spring 2007 Student Exhibit
Tasty Traditions: Celebrating Southwest Ohio Cuisine
Under the leadership of Lynn Simonelli, Curator of Anthropology at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, and in cooperation with the museum and with CityFolk of Dayton, public history students in the Spring 2007 Exhibits and Interpretation class created this exhibit. Using a grant proposal written by public history alumni, the students designed, researched, and constructed Tasty Traditions, which ran at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery from June 8, 2007, through the end of July. The exhibit was a companion to Key Ingredients: America By Food, a traveling exhibit presented by the Smithsonian Institution's Museums on Main Street program.
Introduction Panel
 
Exhibit Panels Artifacts
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