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National Museum of Natural History
NHB MRC 112
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
schererj@si.edu
Education
B.A. (1963) Syracuse University; M.A. (1968) Hunter College, City University of New York
Research
Interests
Historical photography; Women and photography; North American Indian photography cultural anthropology,
and visual anthropology.
Current
Research Projects
Publication on Benedicte Wrensted: an Idaho photographer of Northern Shoshone and Bannock Indians. See web page: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/wrensted Work on Alice C. Fletcher and her early field work among the Omaha and Sioux Indians
Work on earliest representations of Plains Indians in museums, early manikins of Plains Indians, and bringing the historical context back to ethnological artifacts in Natural History's collection that are found in early photographs.See http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/redcloud
Current
or Projected Exhibits
Picture Puzzles: Rediscovering Red Cloud and His Uncle's Shirt - on exhibit at National Museum of Natural History, 2003
Current
Publications
Scherer, Joanna C. - W.H. Boorne's Photos of the Medicine Lodge Ceremony: The Construction of an Icon.: European Review of Native American Studies 13(2):37-46, 1999.
Scherer, Joanna C. - A Preponderance of Evidence: The 1852 Omaha Indian Delegation Daguerreotypes Recovered," The Daguerreian Annual for 1997 (published 1998).
Scherer, Joanna C., Special double issue of Rendezvous:Idaho State U. Journal of Arts and Letters 28 (1-2) Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus (Joanna C. Scherer, ed.). Also published as separate book by the Idaho State University Press (1993).
Scherer, Joanna C., Special double issue of Visual Anthropology 3(2-3): Picturing Cultures: Historical Photographs in Anthropological Inquiry. (Scherer, ed.) 1990.
Scherer, Joanna C. the Public Faces of Sarah Winnemucca," Cultural Anthropology Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, vol. 3(2):178-204, 1988
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