Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator, based in Boston, who specializes in urban and local history. She spent most of the last decade working for the Bostonian Society, Boston's city historical society. In 2010 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2011 she was a fellow at Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities. She teaches Material Culture in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at Tufts University and blogs at CityStories.