M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

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Selected Public History and Humanities Work

Leadership

• Board of Directors, HumanitiesDC (state-level humanities commission), chair, Governance Committee, 2021-2026
• Editorial Board, Edukacja - Kultura – Społeczeństwo (Education-Culture-Society), University of Wrocław Press, 2020-
• Editorial Board, Washington History, 2019-
• Long-Range Planning Committee, National Council on Public History, 2018-2022
• Editorial Board, Current Trends in Graduate Historical Studies (peer-reviewed graduate journal), 2015-16
• New Acquisitions and Curatorial Advisory Board, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, 2015-2016

Curatorial

• Exhibit Consultant, forthcoming exhibit on historic preservation during the Bicentennial, John Brown House, Rhode Island Historical Society
• Series Editor and Co-Convenor, National Council on Public History and National Park Service's 2021-2025 American Revolution 250th Commemoration Scholars' Forums, 2020-25
• Project Lead, Community History Snapshots (D.C. Humanities Truck, in partnership with Cleveland Park Historical Society, Shepherd Park Citizen's Association, Neil Flanagan/Reno City Project, and American University Special Collections), 2018-19
• Curatorial Coordinator and Exhibition Lead, "Making Illinois," Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Spring, 2016
• Project Organizer and Curatorial Coordinator, "Historical Administration Incubator" ongoing installation project, Coleman Hall, Eastern Illinois University, 2015-2016
• Curatorial Coordinator and Exhibition Lead, "Mission, Method, Memory: The EIU Lab School," Permanent Exhibition, College of Education and Professional Studies, Eastern Illinois University, Spring, 2015
• Curatorial Coordinator and Exhibition Lead, "Text and Textiles: Crafting the Lives of Guy and Irene Buzzard," Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Spring, 2014
• Curatorial Team Member, "Beyond the Birds and Bees," John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University, Spring, 2008
• Curator, American Television Scripts Archive, "From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown," Brown University Library/Annmary Brown Memorial, Fall, 2007

Planning / Administrative

• Coordinating (Executive) Committee, American@250+, 2025-6
• Conference Committee, Annual D.C. History Conference, 2018-present (chair, Program Committee, 2022)
• Conference Committee, Public History Summer School, University of Wrocław, Poland, 2020-
• Planning Committee and Submissions Committee, 45th and 46th Annual D.C. History Conference, 2018, 2019
• Advisor, International Time Capsule Society, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, 2018-
• Humanities Planning Committee, D.C. Public Library, 40th Annual Adams Morgan Day, 2018
• Assistant Director, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC, 2005-2007
• Registrar /Assistant Director, LFL /Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, 1999-2003

Consulting / Advisory

• Member, University Advisory Group, DC History Center, 2021-
• Facilitator, Pierce Mill National Park Service Stakeholder Conversation on upcoming commemoration, 2026
• Working Group Member, Washington History working group, D.C. History Center, 2025-6
• Advisory Committee, American Association of State and Local History and Pomeroy Foundation, Commemoration Virtual Summit, 2023
• Consultant, Design Lab Fellowship, DC Public Library, 2021
• Consultant, Collective Perspectives Symposium Series, Newport Restoration Foundation, 2021
• Consultant, New Jersey Historical Commission, Semiquincentennial, 2019
• Consultant, "Framing History with the American Public," (Mellon-funded joint project between American Association on State and Local History, Organization of American Historians, National Council on Public History and FrameWorks Institute), 2019
• Member, American Association on State and Local History Working Group on 250th Anniversary, 2019
• Consultant, Metacanon.org, interactive American literature canon generator, digital project, 2015-

Public Engagement

• "VISITOR: INFORMATION?" Mellon-funded collaboration with Humanities Truck, Summer, 2024
• Team Member, Humanities Truck, 2017- (helped plan events at Adams Morgan Day 2018 and Pride Festival, Smithsonian American Art Museum 2019)
• "Creative Response," with Caitlin Teal Price, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, Fall, 2018
• "Talk Show," public performance with Dawne Langford/Quota Arts, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA, Spring, 2017
• Interpreter, Annual Tour of Historic Homes, Providence Preservation Society, Providence, RI, 2007-12
• Research Fellow, Visitor Studies, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Washington, DC, 2004-2005