About me

Julia Sirkin is a historian and film editor committed to the field of public history. She is an aspiring museum educator with two degrees in Film Production Editing (BFA Chapman University) and Applied History (MA Erasmus University Rotterdam).

Right now, Julia is working at Academics for Peace to help scholars explain concepts about Israel/Palestine in short-form reels. She has been instrumental to the launch of two public history social media channels - Academics for Peace and the Pink Triangle Legacies Project. Before that, she was heavily involved in the exhibition Woves Lives: Exploring Women’s Needlework from the Italian Diaspora, which received the Award of Excellence in 2023 from the American Association for State and Local History.

Julia’s MA thesis analyzed 1990s girl zines in the United Kingdom through Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnivalesque literary theory and how their constructions of femininity differed from mainstream publications. Her BA thesis explored how the haphazard Nazi categorization of queer women has led to a confused public perception about queer women victims of the Holocaust. She is passionate about queer and women’s histories, and hopes to work at an organization that shares her dedication to these subjects.

In her free time, Julia enjoys cooking mushroom risotto, reading Tom Robbins books, and is working on a third issue of her first zine.