After Hours with Susan Ferentinos

What happens when we turn a queer eye to the standard telling of history? When we change our lens, what do we see? Susan Ferentinos has devoted her career to helping historic sites and museums ask these questions, and she recently completed a project with a group of former Bay Area military sites exploring the LGBTQ stories that can be told in places where most visitors expect to hear about battles and artillery. Using examples from this project as well as many others, Ferentinos will explore what we can learn when we ask new questions about the past.

Registration highly recommended.
Adults and high school students only! Free wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. Waitlist line opens up at 6:45 on a first come, first served basis.

About the Speaker

Susan Ferentinos, PhD, is a public history consultant working with cultural organizations to expand the stories they tell about the past. She has participated in multiple LGBTQ history projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a project she led on the LGBTQ history of Maryland won the 2025 Allan Berube Public History Award from the LGBTQ History Association. Ferentinos is the author of the book Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, and a book she edited, The Queer Side of Ridgefield: LGBTQIA Experiences of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is due out this summer. She also serves on the advisory board for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.