History: Museum Studies (M.A.) Spotlight

The 2025 New England Museum Association Conference was in Manchester, New Hampshire this year. Current UNH Museum Studies students attended, along with several Museum Studies alumni! Visit the link below to learn more about NEMA. 

Dr. Trica Peone, project director for New England's Histories in the Congregational Library & Archives, studies early witchcraft cases and was recently featured in an article in the Boston Globe.…

Linda Upham-Bornstein, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently interviewed about “tax strikes” during the Great Depression for an article in Mother Jones:  “Sorry Geese: If You Don’t Pay Your Taxes, Uncle Sam Might Have You Plucked.”

Linda Upham-Bornstein, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently interviewed about her new book, “"Mr. Taxpayer vs. Mr. Tax Spender: Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" on Newbooks Network, Nov. 2.

Sofia Thornblad is executive director of the Horatio Colony House Museum in Keene, NH. She was previously an intern at the museum and was able to learn many of the position’s responsibilities during that time.