About

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Graduate Program of Museum Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Jacque is a critical museum and heritage studies scholar with research and teaching expertise on American cultural memory and landscapes of terrorism, broadly defined. Her research program explores the evocative power of places of difficult heritage to cultivate public emotion (such as fear, empathy, and hope) and generate a collective sense of community in the wake of traumatizing events. She is particularly interested in trauma-informed museum practices and the pedagogical power of heritage landscapes to advance or impede social change. Drawing on anti-racist, queer, and feminist theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, her work on heritage landscapes critically interrogates dominant narratives of cultural memory and questions of historical justice.

She has conducted research at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with additional community partnerships underway with the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, amongst other important sites of terror.

Jacque is an interdisciplinary scholar and has held previous academic appointments in American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Peace Studies. She is currently an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida.