2025 HHMC Symposium
Interpreting Gender at Historic Sites
September 17, 2025
Alexandria History Museum at The Lyceum
201 S Washington St, Alexandria, VA 22314
Keynote Speakers:​
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Susan Ferentinos, PhD, is a public history researcher, writer, and consultant helping cultural organizations expand the stories they tell about the past. Among her projects, she has authored three national historic landmark nominations related to women’s history, written a historic resource study on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt for the National Park Service, and served as an advisor to the congressional study on a possible national museum of women’s history. Her project on Maryland LGBTQ history won the 2024 Allan Bérubé Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association, and she received the National Council on Public History Book Award for her book Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites.
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A public historian who grew up in the DMV visiting historic places, Dr. Heather Huyck focuses on place-based histories of American women. She has worked for the National Park Service and the US House of Representatives, and taught at William and Mary. She authored Doing Women's History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) which features dozens of historic sites, parks, and museums. She is active in the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.