Hidden Town Virtual Exhibit, Project Team

Co-Organizers

Meredith Farmer, Assistant Teaching Professor of Core Literature, Wake Forest University

Daniel Ackermann, Interim Chief Curator and Curator of MESDA Collections, Old Salem Museum & Gardens

Brianna Derr, Manager of Advanced Learning Projects, Wake Forest University

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Contributors from Old Salem 

Franklin Vagnone, President and CEO

Karen Walter, Director of Education

Martha Hartley, Co-Chair of the Hidden Town Project

Johanna Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts & Director of Collections

Scott Carpenter, Director of Music Programming

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Contributors from Wake Forest 

Ana Bittner, Intern, Department of English and Special Collections

Carrie Johnston, Digital Humanities Research Designer, ZSR Library

Kennon Later, Intern, Department of English and Special Collections

Kathy Shields, Research and Instruction Librarian for History and Social Sciences

Megan Mulder, Special Collections Librarian

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Other Affiliates 

John Yeagley, Vice President, Twisted Preservation

Ruthie Dibble, Curator, The Chipstone Foundation

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This project has been generously funded by Wake Forest’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement, its Humanities Institute, and the College of Arts and Sciences, through a Mellon Engaged Humanities Course Localization Planning Grant, an Academic and Community Engagement Fellowship, and Course Enhancement Funding.