2018
RACHEL ASBURY
Growing up in Southwest Virginia, Rachel Asbury’s family trips to historic sites both regionally and also abroad sparked an early interest in history and the differences she saw in regional cultures. She graduated from the College of William and Mary, with a B.A. in Art and Art History, and a minor in Sociology. After graduating, she spent a year as the Collections Management Intern at the Wilton House Museum in Richmond, Virginia, assisting in both the care for the house and in the installation of various exhibits. She has also worked at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, leading educational programs and giving tours to K-12 students. However, it was the time Rachel spent working in a New Zealand-style bakery that helped develop her passion for historic foodways. An avid baker, she looks forward to exploring Winterthur’s collection of cookbooks and delving deeper into the regional differences in Southern food culture.
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.ALEXANDRA CADE
Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Alexandra Cade developed a love for early America through frequent excursions into local and family history. Her interest in history developed simultaneously with a passion for music and led Alexandra to the dual degree program at the Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester, where she received a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance & Musical Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in American History, cum laude. Her undergraduate thesis explored the relationship between the abolition movement and the influence of politically-charged parlor music, working closely with the Seward Family Papers and the Seward House Museum. Alexandra’s multifaceted interests also brought her to Colonial Williamsburg, where she spent two summers as an intern with the resident early music ensemble. After completing her undergraduate degrees, she returned to Colonial Williamsburg as the apprentice harpsichord maker, crafting English bent-side spinets from scratch and fostering an appreciation for traditional craftsmanship. At Winterthur, Alexandra looks forward to continuing her research in American keyboard instruments and exploring the material culture of early American tourism.
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CANDICE ROLAND CANDETO
Candice Roland Candeto grew up enjoying a wealth of historic resources in Virginia and from a young age developed an interest in museums and heritage tourism. She comes to Winterthur most recently from Richmond, Virginia, where she worked in the research library of the Virginia Historical Society. Candice first explored the idea of material culture while studying buildings. She earned her B.A. in Historic Preservation and American Studies from the University of Mary Washington, where she also minored in Museum Studies. She has completed several internships at public history sites, including the James Monroe Museum, the George Washington Foundations, and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. She also holds a Certificate in Museum Management from the Virginia Association of Museums. At Winterthur, Candice hopes to expand her appreciation for the world of objects beyond the architectural, while continuing to explore ideas of memory, commemoration, and identity in American culture.
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REBECCA DUFFY
A native of Long Island, New York, Rebecca Duffy developed an early interest in decorative arts while on family trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During her undergraduate career at Gettysburg College, Rebecca studied Art History and History with concentrations in Chinese Studies and Public History. Inspired by her studio art classes in ceramics, Rebecca’s research focused primarily on the colonial Mexican ceramic industry that served as a cultural interface and as an active force in shaping the emerging identity of New Spain. Over the course of her studies, Rebecca gained field experience as an interpretive guide at several National Parks including Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Sagamore Hill. She has also studied interpretative techniques at museums in England and Nicaragua. This range of classroom and field experiences allowed Rebecca to consider the larger framework of visitor perspectives and shared authority that she applied to her Schmucker Art Gallery Exhibition, Pray for the People Who Feed You. At Winterthur, Rebecca is eager to further her research in ceramics and their meanings for those who made, used, and later collected them.
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TESS FRYDMAN
Tess Frydman grew up in a Victorian house in Lawrence, Kansas, surrounded by her mother’s antique collection. Early on, she developed a fascination with the aesthetics of historical objects. At Smith College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in American Studies and minors in History and Museum Studies, she learned how to interpret artifacts in order to glean an understanding of American culture, past and present. She continued this object education through an internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she located objects that helped to illuminate “American” narratives of cross-cultural conflict and compromise for the exhibition, Many Voices, One Nation. It was during a course on the material culture of New England, taught at Historic Deerfield, that Tess discovered the ways style and design communicate subconscious ideologies. After graduating, she worked at the Kansas Museum of History where she created programming for a new History Lab that develops skills of close looking and object analysis in elementary and middle school students. At Winterthur, Tess is excited to explore how objects shape identities.
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.SARA McNAMARA
Sara McNamara grew up in rural, northern New York, and developed her fascination with historical sites and objects through regular museum visits during family vacations. Her interest in these sites inspired her to study anthropology and archaeology. She graduated summa cum laude with honors from Syracuse University with majors in Anthropology and Earth Sciences and a minor in Native American Studies. Sara has spent four summers performing archaeological excavations at Trents Plantation in Barbados, field research that culminated in a thesis on the coarse earthenware uncovered at the site. Sara also participated in archaeological excavations at the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York, and spent a semester in Florence, Italy, interning with the Centro di Restauro where she worked with Etruscan ceramics. While at Winterthur, Sara aims to expand her understanding of how individuals historically interacted with objects in their everyday lives. She seeks a career in the museum and cultural heritage field, and wants to play a role in the public interpretation of material culture and academic research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
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TRENT RHODES
Originally from Kansas, Trent Rhodes developed an interest in art and architectural history at a young age. After majoring in Art History at Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota, Trent worked and interned at a number of museums and libraries in the Twin Cities area, including the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and the Goldstein Museum of Design, each of which fostered his passion for art, history, and design. Trent’s senior comprehensive project at Carleton, a case study of the Levittown suburban housing developments, focused on the intersection of architecture and personal identity. At the Minnesota Historical Society, he was able to continue his research as a research assistant for Suburbia, an exhibit that explored the rise of suburban communities in the Twin Cities area. Trent looks forward to pursuing his interests in American art and domestic architecture and interiors at Winterthur.
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ALLISON ROBINSON
Born and raised in Virginia, Allison Robinson cultivated a lifelong love of American history through countless visits to regional museums, presidential homes, battlefields, and landmarks. Her doll collection further encouraged her to explore and celebrate material culture from a young age. In college, a summer internship in the Education and Visitor Programs department at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello sparked her interest in a career in history, and she quickly began to pursue this path. After graduating from Yale University in 2011, Allison worked a dual position as the first Junior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the Robert Russa Moton Museum. She later conducted research on slave cabin architecture for James Madison’s Montpelier and interned in communications and development for a legal nonprofit in Chicago. Allison is also a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Chicago, currently on leave to pursue her graduate work at Winterthur. Allison looks forward to sharing with Winterthur her enthusiasm for public history and interest in transnational doll design and production.