Education
Ph.D., History, George Mason University
M.A., Museum Studies, The George Washington University
B.A., History & Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Courses Taught
HIS 209: The U.S. and Latin America
HIS 346: Remembering the U.S.-Mexican War
HIS 626: Practice of Public History
HIS 627: Museum & Historic Site Interpretation: Principles & Practice
HIS 720/721: Capstone Projects
Research
Public history
Museum studies
Museum & historic site interpretation
Historical memory
19th-century United States and Latin America
U.S.-Latin America relations
U.S.-Mexico relations
U.S.-Mexico migration
Selected Publications
- McKenzie, David. “The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian.” Contingent, September 26, 2022. https://contingentmagazine.org/2022/09/25/dentist-defrauded-governments-historian-i/.
- Bhatia, Sara, and David McKenzie. “Collecting Lincoln: Osborn H. Oldroyd and His Lincoln Memorial Collection, in the House Where Lincoln Died.” In U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation: Never Neutral, edited by Laura Schiavo. Routledge & CRC Press, 2024.
- Evjen, Max, and David McKenzie. “Closer Than They Appear: Drawing Lessons from Development Processes for Museum Technology, Exhibitions, and Theatrical Productions.” In Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference, edited by Suse Anderson, Isabella Bruno, Seema Rao, Ed Rodley, Rachel Ropeik, and Hannah Hethmon. Ad Hoc Museum Collective, 2019.
- Prior, Colleen, Aysha Preston, David McKenzie, Sarah Jencks, and Kenneth Foote. “Memorializing Lincoln’s Life Where He Died.” In Affective Architectures: More-than-Representational Approaches to Geographies of Heritage, edited by Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas and Angela Person. Routledge, 2020.
