Americana Insights 2026

Lisa Minardi is a distinguished curator and scholar of Pennsylvania German art and culture. She has organized numerous exhibitions and published extensively on folk art and material culture. Minardi currently serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies. She earned her PhD in the History of American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware, where she researched the German-speaking community of early Philadelphia for her dissertation. She holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and a BA in history and museum studies from Ursinus College.