Anna L. Weissman, PhD is a curator and educator specializing in American decorative arts and historic interiors. She brings dual expertise as both a decorative arts curator and an exhibit developer, integrating deep collections research with the creation of engaging public experiences. Her work centers material culture as a lens into identity, memory, and social change, with a focus on inclusive storytelling. Anna has held curatorial roles at History Colorado, the Historic Barker Mansion, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where she combined scholarship with innovative exhibition development. She is passionate about translating nuanced research into accessible narratives, and brings over a decade of teaching experience to her interpretive practice.​

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Anna holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida, where her teaching and research examined nationalism and the regulation of family and kinship structures. Her published work includes Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternity in Global Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020), as well as contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security, the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Trained across political science, anthropology, gender studies, and history, Anna brings an interdisciplinary lens to museums, where she explores how objects and exhibitions reflect broader questions of power, exclusion, and identity.​​​​​

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