Rachel Boyle

Public Historian and Co-Founder at Omnia History
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Credentials

  • Wiki Scholar 2018
    Wiki Education Foundation
    Dec, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Project Management
    Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria
    May, 2013
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Omnia History
    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Public Historian and Co-Founder
      • Jan 2019 - Present

      Lead a public history collaborative that uses the past to promote social change; consult and collaborate with cultural organizations on special projects; conduct historical research and write for public audiences. Selected work includes: Principal Investigator, Weir Farm National Historical Park, Wilton, CT (May 2022 - Present) Research and write an Administrative History that documents the establishment and management of Weir Farm National Historical Park in collaboration with Public Archeology Lab, Inc. Principal Investigator, Weir Farm National Historical Park, Wilton, CT (October 2019 – September 2022) Research and write a History Resource Study documenting and analyzing the histories of a diverse community of laborers at Weir Farm in collaboration with the Organization of American Historians Digital History Consultant, Evanston Women’s History Project, Evanston History Center, Evanston, IL (November 2019 – January 2020) Redesign website and build new infrastructure for database of over 250 historically significant Evanston women and women’s organizations Curator, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (May – June 2020) Conduct research, write interpretive text, and compile images for a traveling exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment Web and CiviCRM Administrator, Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society, Chicago, IL (February 2014 – November 2021) Streamline tracking of over 1,700 constituent relationships and continue to optimize database; build and maintain institutional website

  • DePaul University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Instructor
      • Jan 2020 - Present

      Teach undergraduate students to expand historical knowledge and apply critical thinking skills. Courses include: History of Chicago, 19th Century United States History, and Introduction to Public History. Teach undergraduate students to expand historical knowledge and apply critical thinking skills. Courses include: History of Chicago, 19th Century United States History, and Introduction to Public History.

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, U.S. and Public History
    2011 - 2017
  • Macalester College
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, History
    2007 - 2010

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