Participant Info
- First Name
- Nicole
- Last Name
- Belolan
- Country
- United States
- State
- NJ New Jersey
- nicole.belolan@rutgers.edu
- Affiliation
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Rutgers University-Camden
- Website URL
- http://nicolebelolan.org/
- Keywords
- material culture, disability history, museums, public history, medical history, publishing
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am the Public Historian at Rutgers University-Camden. I lecture and lead workshops regularly about disability history, material culture (anything made or modified by humans), museum practice, and public history practice. I am Co-Editor of The Public Historian and Digital Media Editor, both for the National Council on Public History. I am also the Director of the Continuing Education Program in Historic Preservation at Rutgers University-Camden. My editorial experience includes developmental and copy-editing of peer-reviewed journal, blogging, and social media cultural heritage content. I am dedicated to helping everyone in the history field link history practice, outreach, and learning. I am working on a book about the material culture of physical disability in early America.
- Recent Publications
“‘Confined to Crutches’: James Logan and the Material Culture of Disability in Early America,” Pennsylvania Legacies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 2017): 6-11.
“An ‘effort to bring this little handicapped army in personal touch with beauty’: Democratizing Art for Crippled Children at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1919-1934,” New York History 96, 1 (Winter 2015): 38-66.
“Collecting Disability History,” UK Disability History Month 2013 series, Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields 1780-1948, November 25, 2013, http://dis-ind-soc.org.uk/en/blog.htm?id=19.
“Object Lesson: Desire Tripp and Her Arm’s Gravestone,” Common-Place, 13, 3 (Spring 2013), http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-13/no-03/lessons/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @nicolebelolan
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Art & Architectural History, Disability, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Medicine, Museums, Pedagogy, Public History, Technology
