Stephanie Townrow

January 2019—August 2020

• • Manage, evaluate, and create educational programs across the organization including classes, internships, workshops, and presentations
  • Develop digital humanities resources to supplement educational offerings, including pre- and post-visit digital materials to enhance school programs
  • Coordinate public programs, including the monthly Regional History Colloquium, the quarterly Material Culture Forum, community events, and off-campus lectures
  • Act as community liaison, fostering community engagement through outreach
  • Offer interpretive history tours of President James Buchanan’s Wheatland for all audiences, and publish “History from the House” blog
  • Work as part of the Marketing Team to serve as community manager for LancasterHistory.org’s Twitter and Instagram accounts and contribute to additional social media and marketing efforts
  • Serve on Planning Committee for Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Historic Site

August 2016—January 2019

• Coordinate, evaluate, and create new educational programs across the organization including classes, workshops, and presentations
• Develop digital humanities resources to supplement educational offerings, including pre- and post-visit digital materials to enhance school programs
• Coordinate public programs, including the monthly Regional History Colloquium, community events, and off-campus lectures
• Engage colleagues and other resources to present interpretive strategies and methods to increase best interpretive practice among educators and volunteer guides
• Schedule and coordinate group and student tours for LancasterHistory.org
• Assist with updates and changes to period room exhibitions in the Wheatland mansion as dictated by research results, changing seasons and program needs
• Offer interpretive history tours of President James Buchanan’s Wheatland, and contribute to regular History from the House blog
• Work as part of the Marketing Team to serve as community manager for LancasterHistory.org’s Twitter and Instagram accounts and contribute to additional social media and marketing efforts

 June 2015—June 2016

• Construct high-quality digital presentations using cutting-edge, open-source digital humanities platforms
• Collaborate with a team to consider creative and effective ways to translate primary source materials into interactive digital exhibits
• Design and produce pre- and post-visit digital educational materials to accompany hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”
• Liaison for strategic partnerships with valuable organizational partners including KnightLab and Google Cultural Institute
• Offer input on social media strategies to market and promote Gilder Lehrman programs; Regular contributor to staff blog and social media presence
• Program Coordinator for a nationally reaching grant program on World War I, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and produced through a partnership with the Library of America

July 2013—June 2015

• Launched and manage the Public Library Affiliate Program
• Manage Traveling Exhibitions Program and coordinate program logistics
• Provide administrative support to large-scale grant programs
• Research and secure rights and reproductions permissions
• Act as direct supervisor of interns

January 2013—June 2013

• Lead in-depth, hands-on school tours to K-12 student groups
• Lead oral history workshops
• Lead group activities
• Promote tours through social media