Lauren Churilla
PhD Student
Contact
- Porter Hall 225C
Education
- M.A. in Public History: Archival, Museum, and Editing Studies Duquesne University, Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, 2010
- B.A. in History Saint Vincent College, 2008
Interest Area(s)
- American Women's History and Sexuality
Publications
- Review of The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, by Deborah Lutz, The Historian, December 2017
- Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015
Awards and Fellowships
- A.W. Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities; Carnegie Mellon University; 2018
Conference Presentations
- "Mashers and Street Harassment in Progressive Era Pittsburgh, 1880s-1930s," Pittsburgh Cultural Studies and Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Student Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2020
- "Mashers and Street Harassment in Progressive Era Pittsburgh," The Assocation for Computers and the Humanities Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2019
Public Digital History Projects
Exhibitions
- Technological Textiles; Computing History and Decorative Textiles, June 2020 – ongoing
- Domestic Space, June 2019 - January 2020
- Common Threads: Weavers of Western and Central Pennsylvania, January 2019 – June 2019
- Blood Cotton: Legacies of Slavery and Exploitation in the Decorative Textiles Industry, July 2018 – January 2019
- Washed and Hung: Laundry and Textiles in America, January 2018 – June 2018
- Selections from the Newly Acquired American Textile History Museum Collection, June 2017 – January 2018
- How We Slept: The History of the Bedroom and Other Home Spaces, January 2017 – June 2017
- Amish, Quaker, and Mennonite Weavers and the Clash Between Pacifism and Nationalism, June 2016 – January 2017
Projects
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Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, September 2020 - ongoing
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Humanities Digital Innovation and Virtual Education, May 2020 – ongoing
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Pandemic 2020: An SVC Covid-19 Public History Project, May 2020 – ongoing