Bowman Center Staff

Emily Lyon is a research fellow for the Inclusive History Project, working on the Hill Auditorium Project Site. She is a public historian whose research has focused on race, gender, visual culture, and US empire in popular memory in the early 20th century. She earned her BA from Indiana University and her MA and PhD from Northwestern. Prior to her time at the University of Michigan, she was a fellow at the Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago where she worked on a range of research and writing projects for the public, including acting as assistant curator for the exhibit, Mapping Outside the Lines.