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  • Executive Director: Stephanie Rowe
  • Program Manager: Meghan Hillman
  • Membership Coordinator: Jess Baloun
  • Publications and Marketing Coordinator: Madeline Hellmich
  • 2025-26 Graduate Assistant: Monica Berg

NCPH Executive Office

127 Cavanaugh Hall – IU Indianapolis
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Tel: (317) 274-2716
[email protected]

histdeptSBThe Public Historian Editorial Staff
Contact Information

Editor: Sarah Case

Contributing Senior Editors: James F. Brooks, Randolph Bergstrom, Lindsey Reed & Shelley Bookspan

Book Review Editor: Jennifer Dickey
Special Editor: Teresa Barnett
Film and Digital Media Editor: Taylor Stoermer
Assistant Reviews Editor: Kendall Lovely
Museum and Exhibitions Editor, Jennifer Scott
The Public Historian
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410

Meet the Staff

EXECUTIvE DIRECTOR

Stephanie Rowe (she/her) was appointed NCPH Executive Director in 2016. Stephanie began at NCPH in 2012 as Program Manager, then served as Associate Director. She came to the organization after five years with Museumwise, now the Museum Association of New York, where she served as Program Coordinator and Regional Archivist. Originally from New York State, Stephanie earned her BA in Social Studies (2006) from Ithaca College and MA in History Museum Studies (2008) from the Cooperstown Graduate Program.  Contact Stephanie

 

PROGRAM MANAGER

Meghan Hillman joined NCPH full-time as Program Manager in October 2017 after serving as Program Assistant since the spring of 2015 and as NCPH Graduate Assistant for the 2014-2015 school year. Meghan interned with the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Archives and Records Administration while completing coursework in the IUPUI public history program in downtown Indianapolis. She graduated from Denison University in her home state of Ohio in 2011 with a BA in history and English literature. Contact Meghan

 

MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR

Jess Baloun (she/her) joined NCPH full-time as Membership Coordinator in September 2025. She came from the Indiana Historical Society’s Education and Engagement team and previously served as Program Manager for the Public History Program at Indiana University Indianapolis. Before moving to Indiana, Jess was a Local History Member in the Ohio History Service Corps from 2021-2023 in Northeast Ohio. She earned BAs in History and International Studies from Miami University of Ohio (2021) and an MA in Public History from IU Indianapolis (2025). Contact Jess

 

PUBLICATIONS AND MARKETING COORDINATOR

Madeline Hellmich earned a BA in Gender Studies from Indiana State University and a MA in History from the Indiana University Indianapolis public history program. She has previously worked as Program Manager for the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights and Public Historian for the Cemetery Hill Project at Clemson University. Madeline held internships with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, the Indiana Statehouse Education Center, and the Indiana DNR Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Contact Madeline

 

GRADUATE ASSISTant

Summer Matthes is the 2026-2027 Graduate Assistant. Currently, she is in her second year in the dual-degree public history and library and information science master’s program at Indiana University Indianapolis. Summer grew up in Chicago, Illinois and received her BAs in history and clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2024. Since studying in Indiana, she has worked at the Indiana State Archives and currently works at the Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives, where she assists with their Omeka exhibits. Contact Summer