Teaching & Tutoring
Experience
Education Inc, Plymouth, MA
Tutor for elementary-high school students who were absent from classes for an extended period due to medical, emotional, or other reasons.
Center for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University
Worken on an initiative to support teachers of first-year students.
Girls Incorporated, Lynn, MA
Academic program specialist for middle-school girls and
Instructor for Architecture, Engineering and Design summer course
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Co-organizer and museum Educator for the SALEM in History program sponsored by the US Department of Education. A partnership program (Salem Public School District, Salem State College, Salem Maritime Naitonal Park Service, and the Peabody Essex Museum) at the graduate level for K-12 teachers.
"Project Launch," RAW Art Works, Lynn, MA
Mentored for students wishing to attend college
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Instructor for History of Art I and History of Art II courses.
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, Boston, MA
Instructor for pre-college program.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Exhibition Project Administrator for American Folk and Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar.
Boston Center for Adult Education, Boston, MA
Instructor. Served on leaders advisory board
National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA
Researcher for special projects.
The Bostonian Society, Boston, MA
Museum Services/Education Associate at the Old State House Museum.
Boston Partners in Education, Boston, MA
Tutor in Boston Public School System.
Selected Publications
"Salem in History: Digitizing the Past" online at:
CG Publisher Website.
Educator's Guide for the Peabody Essex Museum's American Collections
Salem in History website
Spice Trade articles featured in Calliope Magazine
February
Co-author, American Folk exhibition catalog, published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Museum Building, Museum Changing” published in conference proceedings from The Long Run.
Selected Lectures
Academic Lectures:
"K-12 sequencing of topics and methodology using primary sources from PEM and other local institutions" workshop presented at the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 2006.
“Scholarship and Popularity: Challenges in Museum Missions in Education” presented in the panel, Preparing Art Historians for Museum Work at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February, 2001.
Public Lectures:
"A Little Salem Ship in a Large National Context: Salem’s Connection to the Gold Rush" presented to the Salem Historical Society, 11 March 2008. The focus for my interactive discussion was the research process, historiography, and source evaluation. Read related news article.
Lesson Plans
Abaigeal has completed a number of lesson plans for K-12 students on a variety of subjects. A number of them will be posted on this website soon.
Film Projects
Old Places, New Faces: Immigrant Experiences Shaping Boston's North Shore (January 2008). Research consultant and production manager for North Shore Immigrant Community Film. Read a review.
Exploring Salem's Past: The Polish Community in Salem. (June 2006). Production manager.
Current Research
Abaigeal is currently completing her Ph.D. thesis on the 1849 Gold Rush voyage of barque La Grange from Salem to California.
Education
Education: Boston University, Boston, MA
American Studies (American Art) A.B.D.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
American Studies (American Art) B.A., magna cum laude.
