Christie Weininger Raber Director, Wood County Historical Center & Museum Lecturer, American Culture Studies M.A., History, University of Toledo B.A., History, Otterbein College Office: Wood County Historical Center & Museum Phone: 419-372-0967 E-mail: director@woodcountyhistory.org Museum Home Page

Research Interests: Public History, Museum Studies, Local History Selection of Recent & Reoccurring Courses: Historical Society Administration (ACS 797) Biography: Christie Raber is the director of the Wood County Historical Center and Museum in Bowling Green, Ohio. She graduated from Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio in 1995. Originally a journalism major, Christie decided to make a career out of her love for history after volunteering at the Otterbein College Archives. During her undergraduate coursework, she also interned at the Plymouth Area Historical Society, Plymouth, Ohio; the Motorcycle Heritage Museum, Westerville, and the Local History Office at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Christie holds a master's degree in history from the University of Toledo. Her thesis was entitled: "Finding Common Ground: The Use of Memories in the Creation of Community Identity." Christie worked for Walborn Financial Services in Toledo until 1997, when she began working for the Wyandot County Museum in Upper Sandusky, first as curator and then as director. She left that position for the directorship of the Wood County Museum in 2003. Christie has served as a regional coordinator and state judge for History Day in Ohio and is currently a board member for the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums and has chaired both the Education and Annual Meetings & Awards committees. Selected Publications: "Removal of the Wyandot Indians," published in Northwest Ohio History. Awards and Honors: Colonial Dames of Ohio Scholar, 2001. (Edited the exhibit, Treatment, Perceptions and Care of the Mentally Ill, located in the Wood County Museum's Lunatic Asylum, which won an outstanding outreach award from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums in 2004.