About

Emily Hummel is a current MA student at American University.

When not blogging about digital trends in museums, she enjoys building forts out of her reading for comps, creating mini-exhibits in her cubicle with toy soldiers, and having musical sing-alongs.

I am a historian who enjoys jumping around in time (and, frankly, the humanities – my undergraduate degree was in history, religion and French), so I suppose it was only natural that I become a public historian. To me, it’s a way of giving back to all the museums that helped raise me, and a way to share my love of history. I don’t see it as mutually exclusive of history – public history is merely the public face, helping make that tangible connection with history that so many of us made as children.

My main areas of focus in the past two years have been memorialization, advertising and propaganda.  In the world of Public History, this becomes an interest in marketing and merchandizing and a fascination for the tangible connection those make with people.