About

Dr. Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas is a leading scholar on the curation of feelings and emotion in places of difficult or traumatic 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. Drawing on intersectional theories of embodiment, affect, and emotion, she is particularly interested in trauma-informed museum practices and the pedagogical power of heritage design to advance or impede social change.

With expertise on landscapes of terrorism broadly defined, her work on heritage landscapes critically interrogates dominant narratives of cultural memory and questions of historical justice. She is a national expert on the memorialization of September 11, 2001 and the reemergence of terrorism in American memory throughout the post-9/11 decades.

In 2022, Jacque served as the Principle-Investigator on a grant with the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project—a local expression of the Equal Justice Initiative. The grant collaboration enabled the co-creation of the Alachua County, Florida Digital Black Heritage Trail Map and Website and a permanent exhibit honoring local victims of racial terror lynching.

Jacque has served as a research and exhibition consultant with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Holocaust Museum for Hope and Humanity. She has also held partnerships with the National September 11th Memorial Museum 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 Rotating Program Head of the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Geography, Center for Arts in Medicine, and the Florida Museum of Natural History.