About us.
Tanya Rosen-Jones
Renee Romano is an award winning-educator and a historian with expertise in U.S. history, histories of race, and historical memory. Throughout her 30-year career teaching at Wesleyan University, Oberlin College, and now in the City University of New York’s Museum Studies MA Program, she has worked with museums and community organizations to craft compelling historical narratives that engage audiences, serve community needs, and make the past relevant in the present.
Renee has been a scholarly advisor or consultant for Kent State University’s May 4 Visitor Center, New York Historical, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society. She has also developed and led community-engaged history projects that have resulted in exhibits, walking tours, and educational programs. The author or editor of five books, Renee has published on a wide range of topics, including the history of interracial marriage, civil rights era racial violence, the popularity of Hamilton, and the evolving historical narratives at sites associated with enslavement.
Renee serves on the board of National History Day and the Program Committee for the 2027 Organization of American Historians conference.
Julie Min is an exhibit developer with experience in museum planning, content development, and project management. Over the past twenty years, her work has connected ideas to audiences for museums, historic sites, and community organizations.
As a senior exhibit developer at West Office Exhibition Design in California, she developed concepts for the Topaz Museum, the Japanese American incarceration site in Delta, Utah. She has consulted for the Peace Institute of Cambodia on memory initiatives affiliated with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh. In Oberlin, her work includes co-directing the local component of the traveling exhibit Courage & Compassion; master planning of the Wilson Bruce Evans House; and managing the State of American Democracy project, including its conferences, anthology of essays, and video podcast series.
She serves on the board of the Oberlin Heritage Center, chairs the Oberlin Oral History Project, and holds degrees in mechanical engineering, industrial design, and American Studies.
“Their dedication to uncovering hidden gems was remarkable and their creativity and ability to think outside the box played a key role in helping us convey complex ideas in a clear and visually engaging way.”
Jennifer Tucker, Director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society, Wesleyan University