2023-ongoing William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. 

  • Adjunct Professor, CTI 100 Responsible Self, Core Curriculum. Teaching texts across different world views and disciplines from history, science, political philosophy, eastern and western religious traditions and indigenous perspectives.
  • Curriculum Review Committee, CTI 100 Responsible Self, Core Curriculum. Part of a seven person team reviewing the content and pedagogy of the core curriculum for Fall 2024 and forward.

2018-ongoing Benjamin & Dr. Edgar R. Cofeld Judaic Museum, Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY.

            Curator, Archivist, Exhibition Consultant. 

  • Exhibition Consultant from 2020. Researched, curated, and scripted an entirely new museum experience that opened in 2023. Building a new website. More at: Cofeld Judaic Museum
  • Ongoing research, writing, and curating of curriculum, consulted on the creation of a website, part of the documentary interview group as well as historian and archivist consultant to the film Legacy of Light: The Journey of Temple Beth Zion and Jewish Buffalo.
  • Historian, archivist and consultant to new educational initiative 2022-onwards
  • Conducted the museum’s first wall to wall inventory of thousands of items
  • Installed new rolling racks, framed picture storage mechanisms, and archival housing
  • Overhauled all administrative structures and created new management systems
  • Established a five-year site agreement with Buffalo State College Museum Studies Program
  • Implemented a digitization plan to make materials accessible through multiple online venues
  • Formed a partnership with the Jewish Buffalo History Center to showcase online materials
  • Began the STEPS (American Association for State and Local History) program
  • Created a series of reimagining documents for the new museum core exhibitions
  • Enabled growth of a diverse group of interns from local and outer state universities and colleges.
  • Created a new concept for the permanent exhibition, and replacing with the concept of a core exhibition with rotation in built into design and a digital system to also expand viewing
  • Researched, selected and wrote all of the exhibition text and labels, selected the and created internal systems for the new core exhibition
  • Worked with an in-house team and a national recognized designer to bring the new vision to fruition in 2022.
  • Initiated a strategic plan for future development and growth of the museum.

2020-2023 Jewish Buffalo History Center, Buffalo, NY

            Coordinator, Digital Historian and Curator

  • Researched, wrote and created two online and in-person exhibitions: Sokolivka: Once Home and Harold Arlen.
  • Established a curatorial philosophy and site architecture design for website
  • Researched and wrote all content on the website and monthly articles for newspapers
  • Work with an array of individual, family and business private archival holdings
  • Sourced materials from local and national archives, historical societies and museums
  • Created a series of Memorandum of Understandings with local Jewish organizations
  • Conducted public presentations in online formats, and in-person public and private groups
  • Provided research and training to partner organization: Explore Buffalo
  • Supervised virtual and onsite internship for the University at Buffalo
  • Wrote hundreds of encyclopedia entries on people, organizations, events and place
  • Created resource genealogy guides to allow independent research of website users

2017     Medaille University (College), Buffalo, NY.

Adjunct Professor

I taught the GEN410 Baccalaureate Capstone I, for upper level students finishing out their degrees.

2015-2016     Daemen University (College), Amherst, NY.

Adjunct Professor

I taught Jewish Genealogy and History, as part of HST 347 Multicultural Poland: History and Public Memory, and IND 348: International Service Learning. My work helped secure Associated Program status for Daemen through the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy at the National Library of Israel. This hybrid class was co-taught with Professor Andrew Kier Wise.

2007-2018     Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Buffalo Archives Project, Buffalo, NY     Archivist/Historian

  • Collected, appraised, accessioned and currently processing the documentary history of Jewish communities in Greater Buffalo, NY.  This project involves over forty five religious, educational, community and cultural organizations as well as numerous personal paper collections.  Completed materials including Temple and other materials have already been deposited in the archives at University at Buffalo Archives and Special Collections, complementing the existing Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo collections.   Current materials collected equivalents over 250 linear feet and growing.  Includes photographs and a small amount of artifacts.
  • Devised and running an oral history program to record the cultural memory of Jewish Buffalonians and Niagara Falls residents.  Currently have completed thirty oral histories, and have a further 60 more planned. “Voices of Jewish Buffalo and Niagara Falls”.
  • Disseminated information gleaned from primary sources in the archive collecting process in a variety of public community mediums, including synagogue bulletins, Buffalo Jewish Review, Federation News, and through an on-line presence.
  • Presented in local synagogues, the Jewish Community Center, and other venues locally
  • Presented at national and local conferences including IMLS and SAA.
  • Written grants and all policies and documentation.  Grant writing ongoing.
  • Oversee interns and volunteers on an ongoing basis, as well as part-time assistant

2003-2006     Jewish Community Center     Allentown, PA. Instructor

  • Devised and taught Advanced Melton School classes on aspects of Jewish History, including Anglo-Jewish History and Environmental Judaism.

2004-2005     Jewish Women’s Archive     Boston, MA Fellowship

  • Awarded JWA “Jewish Women’s Building Community” Fellowship in June 2004 for research into refugee activism as a form of “community building” by Jewish women in Baltimore during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • Prepared article length piece for the Jewish Women’s Archive: “ ‘A committee of welcome’: Jewish women in Baltimore and refugee activism as a form of community building, 1933-1942.”

2000-2004 Jewish Museum of Maryland     Baltimore, MD. Exhibition Consultant/Curator

  • Guest researcher and curator for an exhibition on the experience of German speaking Jewish refugees into Baltimore during the 1930s and early 1940s entitled: Lives Lost, Lives Found: Baltimore’s German Jewish Refugees, 1933-1945.
  • Researched and wrote original plan for exhibition.
  • Conducted interviews with former refugees, children of refugees and other contemporaries in the Jewish community.
  • Undertook primary research in various archival repositories in Maryland.
  • Edited articles for the exhibition catalogue.
  • Authored article for exhibition catalogue entitled, “ ‘Germany’s Loss is Baltimore’s Gain’: Jewish Youth from the Third Reich Remake Their Lives in Baltimore.”

2002-2003     Jewish Women’s Archive     Boston, MA. Research Fellow

  • Created a web exhibition “Women who Dared” about six Baltimore Jewish women with a record of activism in a variety of fields.
  • Researched background information of each featured woman.
  • Conducted oral histories of each individual included in the exhibition.
  • Authored web exhibition text supporting it with multimedia presentations (photographic and documentary material, artifact images, audio and video clips).
  • Created user friendly indexes, summaries and biographies of each interview.