Email: lpearce1@luc.edu
Faculty Advisor: Ted Karamanski
Loyola University Chicago, 2012-2014
DePauw University, 2006-2010
My research interests include Holocaust history and commemoratino, women's and gender history, and pre-20th century U.S. history, public history, and issues of historic memory.
Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow; Summer 2013
Loyola University Chicago - Graduate Assistant (Women and Leadership Archives); 2012-2014
Albert J. Beveridge Fellowship; 2012
William Wallace Carson Scholarship; 2009
National Register of Historic Places, Cairnduff's Edition Historic District, Chicago, Cook County, IL; Work in Progress
"Hawthron-Mellody Farms," Temporary Exhibit, Cuneo Mansion & Gardens; Work in Progress
The Lakefront Historian, Contributor; 2012-2014
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Skokie, IL), Collections Intern; August 2013-Present
Museum of the Mississippi Delta (Greenwood, MS), Promotional Intern; June - December 2011
C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Terre Haute, IN), Visitor Experience Intern; February 2009 - May 2010
Lake County Historical Society (Painesville, OH), Youth Education Programming Assistant; Summers 2006 - 2009
"Addressing Absence: Exhibiting African-American Suffragists," Poster Accepted for National Council of Public History Conference, Monterey, CA; March 2014
"From Royalty to Reds: Public Perception of Jane Addams and Hull House During the Red Scare," Loyola University Graduate Student Association Conference, Chicago, IL; November 2013