Profile profile for GloedeJ
B.A. Anthropology and Art History, University of Maryland
M.A. Museum Studies, The George Washington University
Role in Museum:
Jennifer serves as the collections and outreach specialist for the National Numismatic Collection (NNC). She manages the NNC's public inquiries and supervises research visits to the collection. In addition to cataloging, digitization, and preservation initiatives, she is also involved in the department's public engagement efforts.
Projects:
Exhibitions:
- Collections Manager, Really Big Money, opening in 2021
- Collections Manager, The Value of Money
- Collections Manager, Stories on Money, closed in 2019
Cataloging, Digitization, and Preservation:
- West African Currency cataloging and digitization
- Funded by a grant from the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund at the London School of Economics
- Inventory and Rehousing of American Coins, project leader
- Funded by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee
- Cataloging and rehousing the United States currency collection
- Rehousing the numismatic book collection
- Rehousing the alternative, or commodity, currency collection
Blog Posts
One coin, two coin, old coin, new coin: Searching for Dr. Seuss in the National Numismatic Collection
March 1, 2018
Hamilton: How money tells his story
January 11, 2018
I'm betting on Numismatics!
November 15, 2017
You have what stored in the vault?! Five of the most unexpected things in the National Numismatic Collection
November 13, 2017
Numismanic, Nomismatic, Numismatics?
November 10, 2017
It's not heads or tails in the "Game of Thrones"
July 13, 2017
Experience the hobby of kings with the National Numismatic Collection's new Discovery Cart
April 20, 2017
Coins: They're outta this world
January 17, 2017
Suffragists: From campaigns to currency
December 19, 2016