Tom Scheinfeldt

About:

Tom Scheinfeldt is Managing Director of the Center for History and New Media and Research Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Tom received his bachelors degree from Harvard and his masters and doctoral degrees from Oxford, where his doctoral thesis examined inter-war interest in science and its history in diverse cultural contexts, including museums, universities, and Worlds Fairs. A research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and a fellow of the Science Museum, London, Tom has lectured and written extensively on the history of popular science and the history of museums, most recently two chapters in Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum (Palgrave, 2010), and has worked on traditional exhibitions and digital projects at the Colorado Historical Society and the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. In addition to managing general operations at the Center for History and New Media, Tom directs several of its projects, including Omeka, the September 11 Digital Archive, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800, and Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Tom blogs at Found History and co-hosts the Digital Campus podcast with colleagues Dan Cohen and Mills Kelly.