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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Anne Parsons is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she serves as Director of Public History and Graduate Program Director for Museum Studies. She is also Affiliate Faculty in Jewish Studies. Parsons earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013, with a dissertation titled 'Re-institutionalizing America: The Politics of Mental Health and Incarceration, 1945-1985.' She holds an M.A. in Public History from New York University in 2005 and a B.A. with honors in Classics from Smith College in 2000. Prior to her current position, which began as Assistant Professor in Fall 2013 and advanced to Associate Professor, she served as Visiting Instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2012 to 2013. Earlier professional roles include Education Director at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in New York from 2005 to 2006, Archival Assistant at New York University Libraries' Tamiment Library in 2005, and Researcher at American History Workshop from 2004 to 2006. She also directed the Museum Studies Program starting in Spring 2014.