Erica Ciallela

Erica Ciallela is an Exhibition Project Curator for Belle da Costa Greene, A Librarian’s Legacy at The Morgan Library. Erica comes from the Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury, Connecticut where she worked on reinterpreting the National Historic Site, bringing to light the stories of its African American students in the 1830s. Erica joined the Morgan as a Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow and processed the early Director’s Office files of the Morgan to create a better understanding of Belle da Costa Greene’s time as Director. Erica is invested in seeing institutions tell more inclusive histories, especially those of African American women. She also believes that looking at archival collections in non-traditional ways will help contribute to the multiple narratives that are waiting to be told.