Project Portfolio

Presenting at "Juneteenth" student exhibition opening, Kennesaw State University, April 2025

Ongoing Research Projects

• Dissertation Research, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
• "Deliberating Atlanta's Carceral Landscapes: Planning, Protest, and Public History at the Chattahoochee Brick and Atlanta Prison Farm/Cop City Sites in the 2020s"
• Oberlin Experimental College Research Project; Oberlin, OH
• Sponsored by Frederick B. Artz research grant, Summer 2013
• Archival research and oral histories toward development of publication

Past Work

2025

• GSU Ramps Up: Kell Hall and the Rise of an Urban Campus
• Served as principal author and researcher for a revamping and expansion of the 2019 digital scholarship project Kell Hall: Capturing the Legacy through a graduate research assistantship at Georgia State University Library.
• Digital exhibit project hosted by Georgia State University.
• "A testament to the resourceful and inventive spirit of GSU’s early leaders, Kell Hall endured through more than seven decades of growth and innovation as Georgia State evolved from the University System of Georgia’s “Atlanta Extension Center” to a world-class urban research university."
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  Grant Park Public History Project, Atlanta, GA
• Research and writing for a set of interpretive panels about the history of Grant Park, Atlanta's oldest public park.
• Coordination of community and scholarly advisory boards with the Grant Park Conservancy in my role as senior curator in the Department of Museums, Archives, and Rare Books at Kennesaw State University.
• Part of a larger set of new initiatives at the Grant Park Conservancy, the project is the recipient of a 2025 Special Projects Award from the Georgia Association of Museums.

2015 - 2025

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  Museum of History and Holocaust Education (MHHE) and Department of Museums, Archives, and Rare Books at Kennesaw State University
• Curator/Senior Curator 
• Researched and developed onsite and online exhibitions 
• Directed community engagement initiatives
• Guided partnerships within MARB, within KSU, and with cultural and educational institutions in the U.S. and abroad
• Developed interpretive components using new media in support of MHHE exhibitions and public programs 
• Directed curatorial aspects of the MHHE grant program
• Taught courses in the KSU Public History Program
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  Selected Projects:
• MHHE Oral History Program
• Georgia Journeys: Legacies of World War II
• Refuge or Refusal: Turning Points in U.S. Immigration History
• Georgia Goes to War
• Save One Life: Resistance During the Holocaust
• Anne Frank in Translation
• Words, Music, Memory: (Re)Presenting Voices of the Holocaust
• Service, Citizenship, and Civil Rights
• Black + Jewish
• The Tragedy of the St. Louis

2015

• Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program
• Part-time instructor for HIST 8885: Theory and Practice of Digital History
• Development of Atlanta Rail Corridor Archive. with students using Omeka software. The archive includes student research topics that have a geographical relationship with the historic rail corridor that is currently undergoing redevelopment as the Atlanta BeltLine.
• Part-time instructor for HIST 8730: Exhibition Development
• Directed the creation of The Doctor Is In exhibit by GSU students for the Stone Mountain Historical Society. 

2012 - 2014

• Historical Society of Greater Lansing; Lansing, MI
• Member of the board of directors
• Collections management research and evaluation
• Collections rehousing and cataloguing
• Exhibition development (online and physical)
• Curated "Lansing Eats!" Summer 2013
• Museum promotion

2012 - 2013

• MSU Museum; East Lansing, MI
• Project archivist for Cuesta Benberry quilt research collection

• History Works, Inc. Chicago, IL
• Archival Research  and reporting at the Library of Michigan in Lansing and other locations around the state

• National September 11 Memorial Museum; New York, NY
• Consulting Project Manager for Collections Database Public Launch and Memorial Exhibition Support

2006-2012 (As Full-Time Employee)

• National September 11 Memorial Museum; New York, NY
• Oral history production, transcription and exhibition excerpting
• Collections and asset management database development
• Memorial exhibition content management, process development, and curation
• Artifact research and label text production
• Communications with donors, family members, and artists
• Project management for Artists Registry and Memorial Exhibition Archive

See Adina's LinkedIn profile for her full CV.