Publications and Presentations

“Sustaining Staff: Improving the Profession by Improving Conditions for Professionals.”
Presentation on supporting and retaining staff in museums for the 2022 Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists conference, with the theme Sustainability360.

Thompson, Christina, Michelle Brownlee, Kate Philippe, and Emily Starck. “Sustaining Staff: Improving the Profession by Improving Conditions for Professionals.” Sustainability360, 2022 Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists conference, December 7, 2022.

“REPOhistory’s Lower Manhattan Sign Project: A Digital Exhibition.”
This digital humanities thesis project aims to explore the collective REPOhistory’s inaugural project, the Lower Manhattan Sign Project.

Thompson, Christina. “REPOhistory’s Lower Manhattan Sign Project: A Digital Exhibition.” MA thesis, New York University, 2017. https://thesis.ckthompson.com.

“Online Exhibitions: Answering the Need for Interpretation of Online Collections.”
This paper examines features of online exhibitions and studies various examples, considering online exhibitions as a way to serve a museum’s mission to interpret and exhibit its collections. Contact me for access to this paper.

Thompson, Christina. “Online Exhibitions: Answering the Need for Interpretation of Online Collections.” Adv. Cert. paper, New York University, 2017.

“Villa La Pietra Internship: Part II”
Blog post written with Caitlin Gilroy for the NYU Museum Studies Masters Program and Villa La Pietra to share our experience as Collection interns at La Pietra.

Thompson, Christina and Caitlin Gilroy. “Villa La Pietra Internship: Part II.” NYU Museum Studies (blog), December 5, 2016. https://nyumuseumstudies.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/villa-la-pietra-internship-part-i/.

“Abraham Lincoln and Memorial Day.”
Public program and blog post for an Introduction to Public History (NYU) group project, in collaboration with the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation. Public program presented December 17, 2014.

Thompson, Christina, Nora Gorman, and Jennifer Pleska. “Abraham Lincoln and Memorial Day.” Off the Grid (Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation blog), January 15, 2015. In conjunction with public program held on December 17, 2014. http://gvshp.org/blog/2015/01/15/lincoln-and-memorial-day/.