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Meredith Peruzzi

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American museum director

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According to Wikipedia, Meredith Peruzzi is an American historian and Director of the National Deaf Life Museum in Washington D. C. Early life and education Peruzzi grew up in Columbia, Maryland and attended Wilde Lake High School where she was the captain of the quiz team. She has a B.A. in Deaf Studies with a minor in History from Gallaudet University where she was on a team which took first place in the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl in 2008. Her honors project at Gallaudet was a book called Gallaudet at 150: Chapter One, covering campus history from 1857 to 1880. After college she spent a year in Tokyo teaching American Sign Language. She received her M.A. in history from George Mason University in 2018, with concentrations in U.S. History and Applied History. She is pursuing doctoral work at the University of Leicester, in the field of Museum, Gallery, and Heritage Practice. Her current doctoral research "applies Critical Disability Theory to the issue of deaf visitors developing a sense of belonging in museum spaces."

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