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Farmer, Mindy

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Farmer, Mindy

National Portrait Gallery staff

Positions

Historian, National Portrait Gallery 2022 -

Geographic Focus

United States Country

Background And Education

Education And Training

M.A. in History, Western Kentucky University
Ph.D. in History, The Ohio State University

Publications

Selected Publications

Article
- Farmer, Mindy. 2024. "A Controversy of Monumental Proportions at the Kent State Memorial." Museum Magazine, Jul 15, 2024, July/August, 2024
- Farmer, Mindy. 2024. "Sigismund Ivanowski: Illustrating Teddy Roosevelt." Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 10. https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.18941. 2024
Book
- Farmer, Mindy J. and Tyner, James A. 2020. Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War. Kent State University Press. 2020
Chapter
- Farmer, Mindy J. 2018. ""The Taft Dynasty"." In Modern American Political Dynasties: A Study of Power, Family and Political Influence. Gronnerud, Kathleen A. and Spitzer, Scott J., editors. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO. 2018
Review
- Farmer, Mindy. 2017. [Book review] "Review of Kanter, Jodi. Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush." H-Net Reviews, 2017

Presentations

Presentation
- Farmer, Mindy. 2025. Commemoration and Public Outreach in War and Peace [presentation]. 2025 Annual Meeting, May 30, 2025. Washington, DC: Society for History in the Federal Government.
- Farmer, Mindy. 2023. John F. Kennedy and Elaine de Kooning : 2JFK by Sergio Lombardo [presentation]. Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, May 9, 2023. Embassy of Italy.
- Farmer, Mindy and Tillenburg, Gabrielle. 2024. Portraiture and Memorialization: Kent State and Ruben Salazar [presentation]. Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture, September 17, 2024. virtual: PORTAL.
- Farmer, Mindy. 2023. Portraying Women's Strength [presentation]. General Federation of Women's Club Celebration of Women's History Month, March 8, 2023. General Federation of Women's Club Headquarters: NPG - National Portrait Gallery.
- Farmer, Mindy. 2025. The Challenges of Telling the Story of People We Cannot See [presentation]. Annual Conference, April 5, 2025. Chicago: Organization of American Historians.

Contact

Location

National Portrait Gallery Department