Renee C. Romano

Renee C. Romano is the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History and Professor of Comparative American Studies and Africana Studies at Oberlin College and an Adjunct Professor in the CUNY Museum Studies Program, where she teaches MST 600—History and Theory of Museums. A specialist in 20th and 21st century American cultural and political history and in the field of historical memory, Romano holds a PhD in History from Stanford University and a certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of five books, including Racial Reckoning: Reopening America’s Civil Rights Trials (2014), Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past (2018); and The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006). A committed practitioner of public history, Romano founded the Public Humanities Integrative concentration at Oberlin College and has served as a consultant or advisor for numerous museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Kent State May 4th Visitor’s Center, and the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society.