Cynthia Robinson is the former director of the Tufts Museum Studies Program, a position I held between 2007 and 2025 and is a teaching professor in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and hold secondary appointments in the Education and the History departments. Before coming to Tufts, she worked in and with museums. Her specialty is museum education but she infuses teaching with her experience in many other aspects of museum work. She considers herself lucky in her museum career to be able to curate exhibitions, manage collections, write grants (and review grants for state and federal agencies too), supervise employees, conduct research, and participate in strategic planning, fundraising, evaluation, and marketing.

Cynthia was the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Museum Education between 2010 and 2021 and worked with MER to produce first three and then four issues of this peer-reviewed journal each year. She was privileged to get to know museum educators, scholars and allies from around the world who served as guest-editors, authors, and reviewers. Together, she and these colleagues generated a platform for research and discourse about the future of museum education and strategies for increasing visitors’ understanding of themselves and the world.