About

Dr. Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas is a leading scholar on the curation of affect and emotion in places of difficult heritage.

As a critical museum and heritage studies scholar, Jacque’s research program explores the evocative power of places of difficult heritage to cultivate public emotion (such as fear, empathy, and hope) and generate a collective sense of community in the wake of traumatizing events. She is a national expert on the memorialization of September 11, 2001 and the emergence of 9/11 memory throughout the post-9/11 decades.

With expertise on landscapes of terrorism broadly defined, Jacque is particularly interested in trauma-informed museum practices and the pedagogical power of heritage design to advance or impede social change. Drawing on anti-racist, queer, and feminist theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, her work on heritage landscapes critically interrogates dominant narratives of cultural memory and questions of historical justice. She has conducted research at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, with additional partnerships underway at other important sites of consciousness.

Jacque is an interdisciplinary scholar and has held previous academic appointments in American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Peace Studies. She is currently an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Geography.