Lisa Minardi
Executive Director
Lisa has been involved with what is now Historic Trappe for more than 20 years. She is an internationally recognized expert in the history and material culture of southeastern Pennsylvania. Lisa holds a B.A. in history and museum studies from Ursinus College, MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Delaware. From 2006 to 2016, she was an assistant curator at Winterthur Museum. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions and author of many books and articles on Pennsylvania German art and culture, including Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvania and A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life. Lisa has also extensively studied and written about Pennsylvania German furniture and fraktur. She also serves as editor of Americana Insights, an annual volume series dedicated to the study of traditional Americana and folk art, and executive director of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia.