Teresa DeFlitch

Teresa DeFlitch is working on the National History Education Clearinghouse at CHNM. Before joining CHNM, Teresa DeFlitch worked as Associate Director of Education, School and Adult Programs, at Bush-Holley Historic Site in Cos Cob, Connecticut. She joined Bush-Holley after completing her MA in American History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Dobie-Kampel Fellowship and specialized in African-American history and race. Her MA thesis was titled Darwinian Object Lessons: The Cultural Formation of the African Savage in American Culture, 1884-1921.

She is fascinated by the role of public history in American culture, and has held numerous positions in museums and historical societies. She has completed the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship in Early American History and Material Culture and, recently, was a Public Humanities fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University (JNBC). She has presented at several conferences, including Making History Public, a conference sponsored by the American Association of History and Computing, and Sharing Stories: Interpreting African American History for New England and the Nation, co-sponsored by the JNBC and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.