#  The Historian and the Historian-ish: Locating Historical Practice in the Digital Present 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 5, 2026** 

 12:45PM - 02:45PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St, Basement Conference Room B21**  



 

 



 

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Commemorative Acts”

Title: The Historian and the Historian-ish: Locating Historical Practice in the Digital Present

[**M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska**](https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/rymszapa.cfm)  
Associate Professor of History, American University  
Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study at Brown University

Malgorzata J. (M.J.) Rymsza-Pawlowska is an interdisciplinary cultural historian of the 19th- and 20th-century United States and an associate professor of history and public history at American University. Her research interests include public history, historiography, visual and material culture, and communications and media history. She is the author of *History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s* (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), which traces the emergence of immersive engagement with the past in postwar American culture and numerous articles in scholarly journals. In D.C., M.J. is a New America Us@250 fellow and Smithsonian Research Associate.

M.J.'s research is deeply informed by her community-engaged work. She serves on administrative committees for the D.C. History Conference and the Humanities Truck. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of Humanities D.C. and was series editor and convenor for the National Park Service and National Council on Public History’s 2021-2025 American Revolution 250th Commemoration Scholars' Forums.

She is currently working on two new book projects—the first about the history of visitors and newcomers to Washington entitled *Your Nation’s Capital: How Visitors Made Washington D.C., and Vice Versa*. She is also completing a shorter monograph called *The Historian and the Historian-ish: Notes on the Future of the Past,* which is under advance contract with UNC Press.

This event is being hosted elsewhere on campus, and not by the History Department. To learn more, please see the [original event posting](https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/mj-rymsza-pawlowska).



 

 



 

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