R. Tripp Evans is a Professor of the History of Art at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he specializes in American material culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He earned his B.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia and his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University, where he was named the Henry S. McNeil Fellow in American Decorative Arts. He is the author of three books and, in 2010, received the National Award for Arts Writing. In conjunction with his most recent book, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, Tripp guest-curated an exhibition of the same name sponsored by Historic New England.

Meghan Gelardi Holmes is the Curator of the Gibson House Museum and the Curator of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, both historic houses located in Boston. She also teaches in the Tufts Museum Studies Program. Holmes received her M.A. in Public History from UMass Amherst. In 2022, she was awarded the Denny O’Toole Scholarship to participate in AASLH’s History Leadership Institute. Meghan is co-chair of the New England Museum Association’s Community of Practice.

Kenneth Turino, after 24 years at Historic New England, joined Museum Search & Reference as a Senior Search Consultant in July 2023. Previously, he managed community partnerships and resource development, focusing on exhibitions and community engagement. A noted public historian, Turino has published extensively on interpreting historic sites and LGBTQ+ history. He co-edited Reimagining Historic House Museums (2019) and Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites (2024). Active in the AASLH Council, he teaches workshops on historic houses. Ken consults for museums on interpretive planning and interpreting LGBTQ+ history at such institutions as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the Gibson House, and Connecticut Landmarks. He also teaches museum studies at Tufts University and will lead a course at Harvard this spring.