Robyn Schroeder

Robyn Schroeder is the Assistant Director of NIAHD. In her teaching, research, and programs, Schroeder forwards NIAHD’s mission of “doing” history through creating participatory experiences and engaging with site- and object-specific inquiry through classes that pitch memorials and commemorative activities, write tour scripts, and investigate the gap between historical research and public memory in theory and practice. She has publications in Doing Public Humanities (Routledge, 2021) and The Public Historian and is presently researching for a book manuscript on the public sites that display and interpret the United States Constitution.

 Schroeder’s Public History collaboration, advising, and teaching practices stem from her professional history as a museum educator at sites including Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Glessner House Museum, and Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry. She’s done curatorial work with the John Hay Library and the Hull-House Museum.  Previously, she served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Director of Graduate Studies at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities. Before coming to Williamsburg, she served as the Director of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded public humanities endeavor at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Humanities for the Public Good Initiative. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Brown and a BA in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University.