Cynthia Copeland
Director, The American Revolution Digital Learning and New Media Projects
The New York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street
New York NY
10024
USA
http://www.nyhistory.org
Cynthia R. Copeland is an education curator with the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS). Ms. Copeland is currently directing a digital learning project featuring NYHS collections that illustrate the story of the American Revolution. She has been in the field for fifteen years and has curated exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Before Central Park: The Life and Death of Seneca Village a significant nineteenth century free black community that once stood within a site, which today is known as Central Park; researched and contributed to books, and has developed and written curricula, programs and walking tours about New York City and American history, with an emphasis on integrating primary sources. Among Ms. Copeland's professional affiliations are local and national organizations working towards the preservation, acknowledgement and dissemination of the significance of history in contemporary society and for museum education advocacy.
Cynthia will present Out of Our Mines! A Retrospective Look at Online Museum Collections-Based Leaning and Instruction (1997-2006). [Paper]
