Keith Huxen, PhD is the former Senior Director of Research in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy (2020). Keith helped develop the historical exhibits in the Museum’s capital expansion plan, including the permanent exhibits in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, the Road to Berlin and Road to Tokyo galleries in the Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters pavilion, and The Arsenal of Democracy galleries opened in June 2017. He also helped plan the new Hall of Democracy and upcoming Liberation pavilion, and worked in ongoing museum initiatives including travel programs, online education, publications, media productions, conferences and symposia, and partnerships with organizations such as the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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