As a public intellectual, I have been interviewed in numerous local and national media on endangered species protection, food studies, Polish American topics, gender issues, and popular culture. I have appeared in documentary films as well as newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and The Christian Science Monitor. I have has served as a Curator for Museum Exhibitions and Consultant to arts organizations, documentarians, and grantees of the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. I am also an award winning designer of educational multimedia and a published documentary photographer whose works have appeared in scholarly journals, newspapers, films, TV and popular magazines.
Consulting & Curating
Curator/Reviewer, Chicago Feminist Film Festival, 2018, 2019.
Expert Commentator, Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness Film by the Silk Road Project, 2012.
Co-Curator & Consultant, The International Accordion Festival / Trust for Mutual Understanding’s Eastern Europe/American Musical Exchange Project, June – October 2005.
Consultant & Expert Commentator, Dom Polski: Dance Hall Days of Detroit Polonia, Documentary Film, Fall 2005 Premiere.
Consultant, The Polish Americans by Peg Hall. Heinemann Publishers, 2003.
Co-Curator & Exhibit Consultant, Squeezebox: Accordion Communities in the U.S. Witte Museum. Texas Folklife Resources, Guadalupe Cultural Center, and San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, Sept. 2002.
Documentary Film Consultant, Vrazels Polka Band, Texas Folklife Center, 2003.
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