Our Team

Miele began his career as an educator in the Northern Valley School District in Old Tappan and Demarest, New Jersey, teaching American History, World History, and American Studies.  He later moved into the field of public history, starting as a Visitor Services Assistant at Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center in 2013.  Since then, he has served as Visitor Services Coordinator, Director of Education and Museum Operations and, most recently, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Education.  During his tenure at Seminary Ridge Museum, he has served as the primary architect of the visitor experience, constructing a robust educational and interpretive program that has helped thousands of visitors, young and old, gain a deeper understanding of the Civil War and its legacy.  Throughout 2019 and 2020, he oversaw the transformation of the museum’s changing exhibit gallery into the Lydia Ziegler Clare Education Center, a sixteen-person flexible classroom space on the first floor of the museum with the capacity to engage digitally with individuals and groups all over the world. 

In addition to museum work, Miele is actively engaged in the community.  He is Vice President of the Civil War Roundtable of Gettysburg and Treasurer of Main Street Gettysburg.  In 2016 and 2018, he served as an Adjunct Instructor for Shippensburg University’s History/Philosophy Department. 

A frequent lecturer, Miele has presented at national conferences of the Society of Civil War Historians, the American Association of State and Local History, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the American Battlefield Trust.  His essay, “Men, Morality, and Misbehavior:  A Social Study of the World War I Camps at Gettysburg and the Town that Surrounded Them, 1917-1918” was included in Duty Calls at Home:  Central Pennsylvania Responds to the Great War (Shippensburg University Center for Applied History, 2014).  He is currently working on a research project which situates the Gettysburg Campaign in the context of a humanitarian crisis. 

Codie Eash
Director of Education and Museum Operations
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717-339-1357

Codie Eash has been part of the Seminary Ridge Museum staff since before the institution’s opening. Prior to his current role as Director of Education and Museum Operations, he previously served as Communications Intern (2012-2013), Visitor Services Assistant (2013-2015), Lead Visitor Services Assistant (2015-2018), Visitor Services Coordinator (2018-2020), and Operations Manager (2020-2021). In 2014, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication/Journalism from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed a minor in History.

In addition to museum tours and interpretation, Codie lectures for National Park Service sites, historical societies, Civil War roundtables, educational groups, and other organizations. He has published articles and essays in local newspapers, regional magazines, and national history journals. He is a founding contributor to Pennsylvania in the Civil War, writes book reviews for Civil War Monitor, and serves on the editorial board of Gettysburg Magazine.

Kaleb Kusmierczyk
Education and Visitor Services Coordinator
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717-339-1357

Kaleb Kusmierczyk began his employment at the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center in 2018 as a Visitor Services Assistant. At the conclusion of the season, he left but would return the following season to fill the position of Lead Visitor Services Assistant in 2019. In 2020, Kaleb would again be promoted to Education Coordinator.

Kaleb has always had a love for history, the Civil War, and especially the Battle of Gettysburg since a young age. While in College he completed several internships and other volunteer experiences in a variety of museums in the Central Pennsylvania region. He graduated from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 2017 with a Bachelor Degree in History with a Public History concentration.

Rob Williams
Director of Outreach
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717-339-1354

​Rob Williams, a lifelong area resident, graduated from West Chester University in 2007 with an undergraduate degree in History. While an Assistant Director of the YWCA Hanover, he completed his graduate studies at Shippensburg University in 2014, earning a Master’s in Applied History. Rob worked for a year and a half in group sales at the Gettysburg Foundation before joining the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center in October 2016.