WASHINGTON, DC, March 24, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Lightman is a principal and founding partner of QED Associates LLC, which provides research, development and communication services for colleges and universities, museums, and progressive public and private organizations. Founded in 1988, Dr. Lightman has led projects for QED Associates in the United States and abroad. She has created exhibitions for major museums, authored university histories, coordinated cross-disciplinary research teams, and provided leadership for organizational fundraising and program development.
After taking B.A. and M.A. degrees from Hunter College, Dr. Lightman earned a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. She was a founder and executive director of the Institute for Research in History in New York City (1975-1988), an independent and innovative center that played a key role in the development of women's history and public history. Her subsequent work included tenure as executive director of the International League for Human Rights (1997-1999), where she represented the oldest general US human rights organization before the United Nations in New York and Europe. Dr. Lightman was a Senior Fellow of the Women's Research and Education Institute in Washington, D.C. (2007-20011) where she worked on domestic and international issues including women and the military and international trafficking in women. Since 2008 she has been special consultant to NCSEJ, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that promotes religious freedom, especially for resurgent Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Dr. Lightman's scholarship spans a wide range from Greco-Roman history to urban history and the history of higher education in the United States. She has held grants from major foundations including the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to contributing articles and essays to journals and books, she is co-author of A Biographical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Women (1999) and Since 1851: 160 Years of Scholarship and Achievement in the Nation's Capital (2011). In 2016 she co-curated a multimedia exhibition, Twelve Years That Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963-75, at the Anacostia Smithsonian Community Museum.
Dr. Lightman has been recognized for her scholarly and professional accomplishments by the Hunter College Hall of Fame and Veteran Feminists of America. She has been featured in Who's Who in America and in four editions of Who's Who of American Women.
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