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Lauren Churilla

Graduate Student

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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

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

"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

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

Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, September 2020 - ongoing
Humanities Digital Innovation and Virtual Education, May 2020 – ongoing
Pandemic 2020: An SVC Covid-19 Public History Project, May 2020 – ongoing