David Patrick McKenzie

@dpmckenzie.bsky.social

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Versatile public historian & professor. Public history, museums, US-LatAm hist, hist memory. Formerly of Folger, Ford’s Theatre, Capital Jewish Museum, Design Minds, Alamo. SATX->Pgh->ElSal->DC/NoVa->GSO.

A book entitled “The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educsted Elite” by Rachel Grance Newman.
A laptop computer and coffee framed by two books: The Book Proposal Book and The Dissertation to Book Workbook, insa coffeeshop scene.
A lit tall prayer candle with the logo of the San Antonio Spurs
A schnauzer lying on a couch next to a man reading a book called “Remembering Conquest,” with a basketball game on a television in the background.
Two people speaking by a slide saying: “Frenchmen Notes: Documenting and Advocating for a New Orleans Music Scene,” along with names of presenters.
A program for “Written Then, Spoken Now: Freedom Was in Sight!” In front of a stage.
A book called Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism, with a deep red cover, outlines of poinsettia flowers, and a drawing of a white man wearing an 1800s suit and a cape. Pictured on a table in a coffee shop, with a mug of coffee beside the book.