Anna L. Weissman, PhD is a curator, researcher, and educator specializing in American decorative arts and historic interiors. Her work centers material culture as a lens into identity, memory, and social change, with a focus on inclusive storytelling in historic house settings. Anna has held curatorial roles at History Colorado, the Historic Barker Mansion, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She is passionate about translating rigorous research into accessible public experiences, 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 interrogated nationalism and the state 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. Her interdisciplinary training in political science, anthropology, gender studies, and history informs a broad intellectual approach to questions of power, exclusion, and identity.

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