Biographical Summary

Lauren Rever is a public historian and historical interpreter who turns the lens inward onto her field to study the production of history. Lauren is the 2024/25 Gerda Henkel Fellow in Digital History at the German Historical Institute and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Her dissertation, completed in fall 2024 at Germany’s Heidelberg University, examines the nuanced conflicts of authority and trust in the practices of managing and visiting historical institutions in Washington, DC. This PhD project was funded by the German Research Foundation and hosted by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. Lauren served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Ahrensburg, Germany in 2014 before receiving her MA in Museums and Material Culture from the American Studies department at The George Washington University in 2017. Her postdoctoral project is a public history of the 8^th grade field trip to Washington, DC, and will incorporate digital tools to share, map, and document aspects of the trip as a heritage practice.