Our Alumni

Scott Heberling has over 35 years of experience in project management, historical archaeology, and historical research. He meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards for both historical archaeology and history, and has completed over 150 projects in Pennsylvania and other states. He served three terms on the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Historic Preservation Board and three terms on the board of Preservation Pennsylvania.

Heberling's responsibilities include general project management, background research, historic structures studies, site interpretation and analysis, archaeological investigations and report preparation.

Since 2008, Della Hall has gathered experience working with many kinds of museum and archival collections. She has worked in both small and large art museums, history museums, natural history museums, historic houses and other collecting institutions, in nearly every departmental role from education to administration, collections management, digital archives, marketing and exhibition. She holds an M.A. in history and a certificate in museum studies from the University of Delaware and a B.S. in history, technology & society from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Hall began her role as fine arts collection manager in May 2023.

As a specialist in manuscript Americana at Christie’s New York office, Peter Klarnet has worked with a number of major collections, including that of fabled dealer William S. Reese. He also handled the Richard N. Goodwin papers now at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2018 Klarnet brought the Albert Einstein “God letter” to auction and achieved a record $2.89 million. Klarnet is a board of trustees member of The Manuscript Society. He holds a B.A. from Antioch College and an M.A. from the University of Delaware, both in history.

Lily Santoro, Ph.D., is an associate teaching professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, where she teaches courses in early American History and public History. She is the faculty advisor for the Kinder MA program in Atlantic History and Politics and leads the Kinder Public History ASH Team in their work to promote, document, and historicize the U.S. Semiquincentennial.

Santoro is an active public historian with experience as a project archivist, collections assistant, exhibit curator and museum consultant. As Voices & Votes scholar for Missouri Humanities, she collaborates with community partners across the state to create unique exhibitions and activities that highlight local stories of American democracy in conjunction with a Smithsonian traveling exhibit. In partnership with the Bollinger Center for Regional History, she is spearheading the Southeast Missouri History Gateway project, a digital history project that provides training, consultation and a digital platform to under-resourced cultural heritage institutions to digitize archival collections for public access.