Project Portfolio

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

Ongoing Research Projects

• Grant Park Public History Project, Atlanta, GA
• 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

2015 - 2025

• 
  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.