STEPHANIE BARNES is a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center in the M.A. Liberal Studies program with a concentration in New York Studies. She is currently the Exhibition and Digital Content Coordinator at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.
Her research focuses on using archives and historical materials to learn and about underrepresented narratives in New York City history for reinterpretation in New York City’s museum and educational
institutions. These narratives include Indigenous and African experiences in 17th – 20th Century Upper Manhattan.
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