Professional Summary
Emily Bauman oversees the Portman Center’s internal and external programming as well as the student Fellows program. Her professional practice centers public humanities, drawing from her research background in museum and public memorial studies and her experience developing public programs, education, exhibitions, and community relationships for museums. Bauman is ABD in German Studies and holds an MA in Art History, with a certificate in Museum Studies.
Education
BA, cum laude with Honors: University of Cincinnati 2002 (German Literature)
MA: University of Cincinnati 2008 (German Studies)
Graduate Certificate: University of Cincinnati 2016 (Museum Studies)
MA: University of Cincinnati 2016 (Art History)
Positions and Work Experience
2008 -2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of German Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1996 -2018 PreProfessional Ballet Program Director, Instructor and Choreographer, Mason Dance Center, Mason, OH
2006 -2007 Branch Office Administrator, Edward Jones, Temple, TX
2005 -2006 Executive Officer, B Company, 554th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, Fort Leonard Wood, MO
2004 -2004 Apprentice Company Member, Northern Ballet Theatre, Nashua, NH
2000 -2003 Counselor and Choreographer, Burklyn Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, Johnson, VT
03-2014 -04-2014 Curatorial Intern, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2015 -2023 Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2023 -2024 Director, Programs, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
2024 - Program Manager, Portman Center for Policy Solutions, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Presentations
Paper Presentations
Emily Wyatt (05-2004. ) New (World) Objectivity? American Influence on German Architecture in the 1920s .University of Cincinnati.
Emily Bauman (09-2014. ) “Change and Berlin Identity Performance: Artists’ Interactions with the Changing Architecture of Museum Island, 2003-2012” .Kansas City, MO.
Emily Bauman (03-2015. ) “The Echo and the Frame: Colonial, Post-Colonial, and Global Identity Assertions of Berlin’s Spree Island Museum Architecture” .Cincinnati, OH.
Emily Bauman (08-2015. ) “Pictorial Imagination: National Identity Construction in Wilhelmine and Meiji Photography” .Shanghai, China.
Emily Bauman (10-2015. ) “Framing Asian Culture: Tracing the Path of Asian Art in the Berlin Museum Landscape” .Washington, D.C..
Emily Bauman (10-2016. ) “The ‘New’ New Museum in the New Old Berlin: Museification of the Neues Museum” .San Diego, CA.
Honors and Awards
09-2006 Army Achievement Medal Given for exceptional professionalism and dedication to mission accomplishment
10-2002 -06-2002 Stipendium, Verband der Deutsch Amerikanischen Clubs Stipendium for two semesters of study at the Universität Essen
06-2001 Taft Scholarship Awarded for study at Middlebury College German language immersion program.
1999 -2002 Cincinnatus Scholarship Tuition support for outstanding students
08-2013 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant
12-2013 Graduate Student Governance Association Summer Research Fellowship
04-2014 University Research Council Summer Research Grant
04-2014 Charles Phelps Taft Dissertation Fellowship
Service
German Graduate Student Association (Faculty Liaison ) Other Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2012 -2013
German Graduate Student Association Vice President Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2012 -2013
German Graduate Student Handbook Committee Member Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 09-2012 -12-2012
German Graduate Student Association Vice President Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2010 -2011
Courses Taught
15-GRMN-101 BASIC GERMAN I
-GRMN-1002 BASIC GERMAN 2
15-GRMN-102 BASIC GERMAN II
15-GRMN-103 BASIC GERMAN III
-GRMN-1001 BASIC GERMAN 1
-GRMN-2001 SECOND YR GERM 1
Contact Information
baumaner@ucmail.uc.edu