Emily Helen Boyer

Emily graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2020, where she received a BA in History with a minor in Art History. She then attended Johns Hopkins University where she received a MA in Museum Studies in December 2022. Emily previously worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (June 2023-August 2023), where she was contracted to digitize a SAAM conservation project. From September 2022-May 2023 Emily interned at SAAM in the Lunder Conservation Center, where she helped to organize over 1500+ conservation files and museum documents. Further, she assisted in projects such as sewing led snakes (weights) for a museum installation at the Renwick Gallery, as well as assisted in constructing storage boxes for numerous casts by the artist Stella Waitzkin (1920-2003). During her first year at Northeastern, Emily was a part of the “Recovering Black History in the Monadnock Region, Keene” research team, in which she conducted United States Census research, explored genealogical connections, and transcribed written texts at the Massachusetts Historical Society. To learn more please visit https://www.keeneblackhistory.com/s/home/page/home Emily is also interested in the history of Copp’s Hill Burying Ground and continues to conduct research of Black individuals buried within Boston’s second oldest burying ground. Her website https://chstudentproject.com highlights the research that she has conducted thus far. She currently lives in the Boston area with her four year old dog, Winston.