Hello, I'm Emma!

I am an emerging museum professional and recent graduate of the Museum and Field Studies program at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. My professional focus is in Native American material culture, collections management, and collaborative museology.

About Me

I became interested in museums and collections management as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. As I explored courses in Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and American Indian Studies, I began working with the curator of the Anthropology Department. After graduating in 2014, I took time off to intern at the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Wisconsin Historical Society. During these internships, I expanded my experience by doing curatorial and exhibit projects. Working with Native American communities and material culture, I developed a passion for community-oriented collections projects. I pursued my passion in graduate school at the University of Colorado Boulder. In the Museum and Field Studies program, I completed coursework related to collections management, museology, and indigenous studies. In the Spring of 2018 I completed my degree with a graduate project entitled Collections Management and Originating Communities: Preparing collections for Review.