2015 Minority Awards Program (MAP) Awardees
Anneleise Azua
University of Texas at Austin
National Museum of American History
Multi-faceted research on immigration-migration, borderlands, and community
John Flores
Liberty University
National Air and Space Museum
Experience in Strategic Workforce Planning, Staffing, and HR administration
Holly Glass
Vanderbilt University
National Museum of Natural History
Quantifying the morphological and metric variability of the occipito-cervical joint to assist in the reassociation of commingled skeletal remains
Lyric Grimes
Oberlin College
Asian Pacific American Center
Research opportunity: how Asian Pacific America is an intersectional experience
Flor Gutierrez
Moore College of Art & Design
Smithsonian Latino Center
Internship on Curatorial/Exhibition Development Processes
Wanda Hernandez
Virginia Commonwealth University
National Museum of American History
Broadening Access: Latino and Women’s History Resources at NMAH
Julia Jin
University of Mary Washington
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Heritage Month programming and the Smithsonian Quests digital badging program
Victoria Lee
Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York at Oneonta
National Museum of American History
Junior Curator
Alexis McDonald
Bryn Mawr College
National Museum of American History
Experience with accession process for prints
Marisol Medina-Cadena
University of California, Santa Cruz
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Production experience in the public presentation of culture
Chloe Miller
Dickinson College
National Museum of Natural History
Repatriation Documentation and Research
Kathryn Mitchell
University of Hartford
National Museum of American History
OMMS Personnel Intern Project
Tiffany Murdock
Texas Southern University
Office of Sponsored Projects
Experience in developing online training modules in budgeting, funding sources, and compliance topics
Brandice Nelson
Baylor University
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Documenting Women’s Track and Field History: The Tuskegee Tigerettes and Tennessee State Tigerbelles
James Parker
The College of Wooster
National Museum of African Art
The Arts Can Take Us Places! Educational programming at the National Museum of African Art
Jeremy Peschard
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Zoological Park
Administrative Management Internship
Magnum Pina
University of Arizona
Museum Conservation Institute
Technical Studies of Cultural Heritage in Smithsonian collections
Thomas Plank
Stanford University
National Museum of American History
Education and Outreach Summer 2015 Intern Project
Mayumi Rezwan
University of Maryland
Office of Sponsored Projects
Survey staff regarding use of internal policies and procedures and help to create and organize an electronic repository of internal documents for OSP staff
Shoji Sanders
University of Maryland - College Park
National Museum of American History
Exhibition Development in the Division of Home & Community Life
Sabrina Shirazi
University of Maryland
National Zoological Park
Comparison of Nanopore and Illumina sequencing technologies for the analysis of archaeological soil samples
Priyanka Srinivasa
University of Cambridge
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Reconceptualizing Galleries for South Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art.
Sitthiporn Thongnopnua
Florida State University
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Organizing ICOM-CECA 2015 conference, “Museum Education and Accessibility: Bridging the Gaps
Mia Womack
The University of Notre Dame
Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture
Developing a Research Community and Capacity for the Study of Cultural Heritage in Conflict