May 29, 2018
Dr. Nicole Belolan named TPH Co-Editor/NCPH Digital Media Editor
Together with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), NCPH is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nicole Belolan to the position of Co-Editor of The Public Historian (TPH), the leading journal in the field of public history, and Digital Media Editor for NCPH effective August 13, 2018. In this position she will also contribute to programs and publications at MARCH in the role of Public Historian in Residence there.
Belolan is currently Program Coordinator and Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Philadelphia. She was previously the Megan Giordano Fellow in Public History at Rowan University and Curator of the Red Bank Battlefield Park and Whitall House Museum in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Her work also has included serving as Resident Historical Consultant and Caretaker at Cooch’s Bridge Historic Trust in Newark, Delaware.
Belolan earned her PhD in History of American Civilization from the University of Delaware and master’s degrees from Delaware in History and from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. While at Delaware, she worked with the IMLS-funded Sustaining Places project. In her research field of disability history, she has published peer-reviewed academic articles as well as essays for general audiences. She is a Public Scholars Project Speaker for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities on the topic “Disabilities Then, Disabilities Now.”
This position continues Rutgers-Camden’s role as a supporting institution for The Public Historian. Published with the University of California Press by UCSB and NCPH, the journal is led by an editor and managing editor based at UCSB and has international consulting editors in England, Ireland, Germany, and China. The position now incorporates the role of NCPH’s Digital Media Editor, overseeing the integration of the organization’s print and digital publications, including the History@Work blog and related e-publications.
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The National Council on Public History is a nonprofit membership association that inspires public engagement with the past and serves the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world. NCPH builds community among historians, expands professional skills and tools, fosters critical reflection on historical practice, and publicly advocates for history and historians. Members of the organization include historical consultants, museum professionals, government historians, professors and students, archivists, teachers, cultural resource managers, curators, film & media producers, historical interpreters, policy advisers, and many others. Members confer at the annual meeting each spring and share their expertise in a scholarly journal (The Public Historian), in a quarterly newsletter, and in multiple online formats, such as the NCPH blog, History@Work. Learn more at http://ncph.org