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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORYSmithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Brent D. Glass, Director The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, will undergo renovations during the next several years, with a shut-down of the Museum’s public spaces beginning in 2006 and lasting into 2008. The building will remain open and accessible to staff members and to fellows. However, all exhibition floors are affected by the renovation, and access to certain research materials and collections may be limited. New fellows should consult with their Smithsonian advisors well in advance of the start of the appointment about specific research needs. NMAH is responsible for the collection, care, and preservation of more than 3 million objects. The collections represent material evidence of the nation’s heritage in the areas of science, technology, and culture. They include coins and medals, automobiles, the First Ladies Gowns, locomotive engines, presidential campaign items, popular culture, early electrical devices, and digital and electronic computing machines. As sources for research, the Museum offers not only the historical objects collected by its curatorial divisions, but also significant collections such as prints, photographs, business Americana and trade literature, and engineering drawings. NMAH also houses a notable research library as well as the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, which holds impressive collections of rare history of science texts in addition to World's Fair materials. Viewing objects as principal expressions of human creativity, the Museum is interested in how they are made, how they are used, how they express human needs and values, and how they influence society and the lives of individuals. As a national museum, NMAH’s natural focus is on the history of the United States of America, including its roots and connection with other cultures. Although the scope of the Museum is broad and its activities interdisciplinary, the Museum seeks to contribute to cultural, political, economic, and technological history through research that derives its evidence principally from material artifacts. The collections, exhibitions, research, publications, and educational programs serve to achieve the Museum’s basic mission: to inspire a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples. In addition to exhibitions, the Museum interprets history through demonstrations, performances, and hands on activities, as well as music from America’s past. The Museum, which opened in 1964, averages 5.5 million visitors annually. In addition to the Smithsonian Fellowships, NMAH provides research opportunities
through internships and fellowships with the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Scholars are encouraged
to apply for these opportunities; see the sections on Other Internships
and Other Fellowships in this book. Office of the DirectorGLASS, Brent D., Director. B.A. (1969) Lafayette College; M.A. (1971) New York University; Ph.D. (1980) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Research specialties: Industrial history; urban history; history of cultural organizations and public memorials. OFFICE OF CURATORIAL AFFAIRSThe Office of Curatorial Affairs preserves, documents, interprets, and makes accessible the scholarship and collections of the Museum in support of the Museum’s mission and in accord with standards of quality and practice that maintain the Museum’s leadership in the field. The office is made up of four departments: Affiliations, Collections Management Services, Collections Support, and History. It also includes one special project: the Star-Spangled Banner Project. The office provides vision for the Museum’s scholarly and collection development activities; coordinates and integrates activities in the departments and ensures responsible and coordinated management of resources within and between the departments; and aids all of curatorial affairs in prioritizing projects and program activities. Star-Spangled Banner Project RESEARCH STAFFGARDNER, James B., Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs. B.A. (1972) Rhodes College; M.A. (1974) and Ph.D (1978) Vanderbilt University. Research specialties: 20th-century U.S. history; Southern political history, especially Tennessee; museums and public history. KENDRICK, Kathleen M., Exhibition Curator. B.A. (1994) University of Maryland; M.A.(1996) University of Iowa. Research specialties: Smithsonian history; American history and identity expressed through material culture; exhibition development. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORYThe department’s collecting units document the development of science, technology, society, and culture in the United States. Holdings are particularly strong in the areas of instrumentation, communications, machinery, manufacturing equipment, and manufactured products. Collections also focus on the everyday life of Americans, with specialties ranging from the material aspects of the home and workplace, to traditional folk arts and 20th century popular culture, to the enrichment of the visual arts and music, to the political history of the country. In interpreting these artifacts primarily through exhibitions, publications, and public programs the emphasis has been on understanding the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced and used and their impact on American society. Division of Music, Sports and EntertainmentThe Division of Music, Sports and Entertainment dedicates itself to educating and inspiring its audiences by preserving and presenting their heritage. The division carries out its mission through collections, research, exhibitions, publications, teaching and lectures, performances, broadcasts, and other presentations. The areas of focus for collections and programs are: music, dance, theater, film, broadcast media, sports, recreation, and popular culture. In collaboration with other Smithsonian units, the division produces
the following continuing programs: Jazz Appreciation Month, The Smithsonian
Chamber Music Society. RESEARCH STAFFBOWERS, Dwight Blocker, Curator, Entertainment History. B.A. (1978) Hiram College; M.A. (1981) University of Connecticut. Research specialties: American drama and theater history; musical theater history and performance; American film history; American popular music; history of recorded sound, American popular culture. HASSE, John Edward, Curator. B.A. (1971) Carleton College; M.A. (1975), Ph.D. (1981) Indiana University; Certificate in Business Administration (1981) The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Research specialties: Music in American culture, 1860-present; history of jazz, ragtime, rock, blues, soul, country, popular song, etc.; history of the recording industry and music business in America; Duke Ellington; music of New Orleans and the Mississippi River; children's songs; the canons of American music; American history through popular song. HUGHES, Ellen Roney, Curator. B.A. (1965) Salve Regina University; M.A. (1991), Ph.D. (2001) University of Maryland, College Park. Research specialties: U.S. Social and Cultural History; Sport, Leisure and Physical Fitness History; Material Culture Studies; Museum Studies; Popular Culture. PEREZ, Marvette, Curator. B.A. (1982) Florida State University; M.A. (1986), Ph.D. (Candidate) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: Hispanic American history, construction of ethnicity in the United States and the Caribbean, twentieth-century cultural history, Hispanic American popular culture. SLOWIK, Kenneth, Curator and Artistic Director, Smithsonian Chamber Music. Performer's Certificate (1973) Mozarteum, Salzburg; B.M. (1976), M.M. (1977) Roosevelt University; D.M.A. (1996) Johns Hopkins University. Research specialties: Baroque, classical, romantic and early-20th-century performance practices; use of historical instruments in contemporary performances; French literature of the viola da gamba. STURM, Gary K., Chair and Curator. B.A. (1970) Beloit College jointly with University of Copenhagen. Research specialties: Violin family of musical instruments; American folk music and instruments. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFHOOVER, Cynthia Adams, Curator Emeritus, Musical Instruments. B.A. (1957) Wellesley College; M.A.T. (1958) Radcliffe College; M.F.A. (1961) Brandeis University. Research specialties: Cultural, social, and technological history of musical instruments, especially the piano, made and used in America; music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American life; interpretation of American material culture. KLUCK, Stacy, Deputy Chair. Bachelor of Music (1982) Concordia College. Research specialties: Music and Musical Instruments, Sound Recordings, Entertainment, and collections care and management. OSTROFF, Sue, Associate Curator. B.A.(1974) University of Maine, Orono; M.A. (1985) George Washington University. Research specialties: Entertainment, education and costume collections. Identity and memory construction and presentation; cultural encounter and exchange; migration studies; tourism; globalization; history of geography education. ROGERS, Jane, Associate Curator. B.A. (1986) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Fire fighting and rescue; sports and leisure, Popular Culture. SWEENEY, Melodie, Associate Curator. B.A. (1975) Mary Washington College; M.A. (1983) University of South Carolina. Research specialties: Bedcoverings and bed linens, woven coverlets, printed textiles 17th and 18th century, collections storage. WEAVER, James M., Curator Emeritus and Founder Chamber Music Society. B.Mus. (1961), M.Mus. (1963) University of Illinois. Research specialties: use of early instruments in present-day performance; keyboard performance practice. Division of Home and Community LifeThe Division of Home and Community Life uses scholarship and collections to educate and inspire a broad audience about domestic and social environments and the intersections between public and private life in our nation's past. The division cares for its collections and develops them to represent the country's many peoples. Through collecting and research, division staff produces and contributes to publications, exhibitions, and other forms of public history. Staff of the division collect, research, and disseminate information in the areas of home life, gender identity, life cycles, lifestyles and family structure, work, patterns of domestic production and consumption, standards of cleanliness and health, diverse forms of housing, modernization and the role of technology, invention, leisure, community institutions, religion, and education. American Indian Program RESEARCH STAFFGREEN, Rayna D., Curator and Director of the American Indian Program. B.A. (1963), M.A. (1966) Southern Methodist University; Ph.D. (1973) Indiana University. Research specialties: American and American Indian material culture; American Indian cultural history; American and American Indian foodways; American Indian agriculture; American Indian women; American folklife and popular culture. RUFFINS, Fath Davis, Curator. B.A. (1976) Radcliffe College in American History and Literature. A.B.D. History of American Civilization, Harvard University; (1976-79). Research specialties: African American history and culture; racial construction and ethnic identity; public history. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFDIRKS, Katherine, Associate Curator. B.S. (1971) Purdue University. Research specialties: American textile industry in the 20th and 21st centuries, including the history of synthetic fibers, and with a special interest in the textile industry in WWI and WWI; Coverlets and printed textiles from the 18th and 19th centuries; Technical analysis of textiles for authentification, including objects from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special interest in the dating of American flags, and the history of sewing thread. HARRIS, Karen, Associate Curator. B.A. (1972), M.S. (1987) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Textile and costume conservation. JANSSEN, Barbara S., Associate Curator. B.S. (1972) University of Maryland. Research specialties: 19th century American patent models, sewing machines and trade literature. LILIENFELD, Bonnie, Deputy Chair and Curator. B.A. (1984) University of Chicago. Research specialties: Ceramics made, used, and marketed in the U.S. with an emphasis on late 19th and early 20th century; 20th-century public transportation (America on the Move exhibition); History of the Bracero program (1942-64). VELASQUEZ, Steve, Associate Curator. B.A. (1994) University of Missouri; M.A. (1997) George Washington University. Research specialties: Latino identity and material culture, Latin American material culture; Latin American archaeology, Post Classic (Aztec) ceramics from Central Mexico. YEINGST, William H., Associate Curator. B.A. (1976) Allegheny College. Research specialties: American social history; household and family life with an emphasis on domestic furnishings. Division of Information Technology and CommunicationsThe division dedicates its collections and scholarship to a broader understanding of information technologies and their role in American history. Major collections are: Computers Electricity Graphic Arts Mathematics Numismatics Photography RESEARCH STAFFALLISON, David K., Chair and Curator. B.A. (1973) St. John's College; Ph.D. (1980) Princeton University. Research specialties: Computer technologies; military technology; social history of technology. BOUDREAU, Joan, Deputy Chair; Curator. B.A. (1978) Boston College. Research specialties: History of printmaking; history of printing; environmental history; government printing. DELANEY, Michelle A., Associate Curator. B.A. (1987) Manhattanville College; M.A. (1991) George Washington University. Research specialties: Origins of the Smithsonian's photography collection, the photography of motion, the Pictorialist collection, Washington D.C. photographers, Washingtoniana, and photojournalism. DOTY, Richard G., Curator. B.A. (1964) Portland State University; Ph.D. (1968) University of Southern California. Research specialties: Latin American numismatics; numismatics and the technology of industrialization; world paper currency; eighteenth-century British commercial tokens; Roman imperial coinage. HUGHES, James, Associate Curator. B.A. (1972), M.A. (1974) Catholic University. Research specialties: U.S. coins, Federal paper currency; innovation in American coins, medals and paper money. KIDWELL, Peggy Aldrich, Curator. B.A. (1971) Grinnell College; M.Phil (1974), Ph.D. (1979) Yale University. Research specialties: History of mathematical instruments and mathematics teaching. PERICH, Shannon Thomas, Associate Curator. B.A. (1993), B.F.A. (1993) University of Arizona; M.A. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: History of photography, snapshot and vernacular photography, history of digital photography, Richard Avedon. WALLACE, Harold, Associate Curator. B.A. (1982), M.A. (1994), Ph.D. (in progress) University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Research specialties: Electric light and power; electrical communication technology; electrical science. WRIGHT, Helena E., Curator. B.A. (1968) Bryn Mawr; M.L. Sc. (1975) Simmons College. Research specialties: Visual culture, including prints and photomechanical processes; history of print collecting; business history of American printmaking; women's work in graphic arts trades. The Division of Medicine and ScienceThe division preserves and interprets the rich material legacy of the biological, medical, and physical sciences. Collections are: Biological SciencesMolecular biology and biotechnology instrumentation, special apparatus and instrumentation used for field and laboratory research and in classroom education, artifacts documenting the social and political history of biology, artifacts relating to the roles of women and minorities in science, and trade literature associated with these areas. The environmental history collection focuses on the material culture of the environmental movement and conservation. Medical SciencesCrude drugs, patent medicines, biologicals, drug manufacturing apparatus and containers, laboratory equipment, eyeglasses, cardiac and other surgical instruments, artificial organs, dental equipment, microscopes, radiology apparatus, diagnostic instruments, quack medical devices, and veterinary medicines and equipment. There are growing collections related to the history of disability, alternative or complementary medicine, molecular medicine and genetic engineering, and public health. These are supplemented by trade catalogs, posters, advertising literature, business records, and audio-visual and manuscript materials. Modern PhysicsArtifacts related to 20th century physics, notably nuclear fission and its applications, subatomic particle accelerators and detectors, and atomic clocks. Physical SciencesInclude apparatus of astronomy, chemistry, classical physics, meteorology, navigation, and surveying. Of particular importance are instruments used to explore, survey, and analyze the North American continent; instruments used for science education in American schools; and research apparatus from academic, government, and industrial laboratories. Trade literature supplements the collection. RESEARCH STAFFFORMAN, Paul, Curator. B.A. (1959) Reed College; M.A. (1962), Ph.D. (1967) University of California, Berkeley. Research specialties: Historical development of physics in the 20th century, and intimations of its development in the 21st in consequence to the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. KONDRATAS, Ramunas A., Curator. A.B. (1970) Harvard College; A.M. (1971), Ph.D. (1977) Harvard University. Research specialties: History of public health, pharmacy, and the biomedical sciences; video and oral history documentation of biomedical instrumentation and biotechnology. OTT, Katherine, Curator. B.U.S. (1976) University of New Mexico; Ph.D. (1991) Temple University. Research specialties: History of the body, disability, ethnic and folk medicine, integrative and alternative medicine, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and dermatology, medical technology, prosthetics and rehabilitation, sexuality; visual and material culture, ephemera. STINE, Jeffrey K., Chair and Curator. B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1984) University of California, Santa Barbara. Research specialties: Environmental history; history of science and technology policy. WARNER, Deborah J., Curator. B.A. (1962) University of Chicago; M.A. (1963) Harvard University. Research specialties: History of scientific instruments; history of celestial cartography; women in science and technology. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFCHELNICK, Judy M., Associate Curator. B.A. (1976) William Smith College; M.A. (1979) Case Western Reserve University. Research specialties: History of medicine and dentistry, particularly the history of surgical and dental instrumentation. JENTSCH, Eric, Associate Curator. B.A. (1993) St. Louis University; M.A. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: Pharmacy and consumer health products, psychology and psychiatry. SEEGER, Ann M., Deputy Chair. B.S. (1975) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: Science education, in fields of biological sciences and chemistry. SHERMAN, Roger Essleck, Associate Curator. B.A. (1979) Yale University. Research specialties: History of physics, especially experiments, instruments, and apparatus. TURNER, Steven, Curator. B.S. (1976) University of Nebraska. Research specialties: History of astronomy; history of physics; science education. WENDT, Diane, Associate Curator. B.A. (1982) College of William and Mary. Research specialties: History of Pharmacy. Division of Military History and DiplomacyThe division collects and documents the history of the armed forces of the United States from colonial times to the present through both material objects and graphic works, supported by archival and library resources. Uniforms, Accoutrements, and Insignia These collections contain uniforms, accoutrements and insignia from the US Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Army Air Corps, and Coast Guard. Uniform collections include such objects as: headgear, footwear, buttons, belts, field equipment, rations, and personal effects. Smaller sub-collections within this subject include US women’s uniforms, foreign uniforms, and ancillary service uniforms. Accoutrement collections include: holsters, slings, scabbards, bandoliers, and ammunition pouches and 500 pieces of horse equipment, mainly saddles. Insignia collections include: badges of rank, decorations, awards, and trophies. Flags The collections contain US national flags including the Star Spangled Banner and US Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Army Air Corps, and Coast Guard related flags. There is also a discreet foreign flag collection. Firearms and Ordnance This collection contains military and sporting long arms, military and civilian handguns, submachine guns, machine pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, military and naval cannon, artillery and small arm ammunition, artillery and small arm accessories (ramrods, cleaning rods, and powder flasks) and edged weapons (swords, knives, and presentation pieces) and pole arms. Arts and Graphics These collections contain paintings, illustrations, posters (broadsides), and prints ranging from the 19th century to modern day. They cover a range of topics including battle scenes, recruitment drives, portraits, and depictions of uniforms. A majority of the collection deals with World War I military art. Gunboat “Philadelphia” A warship used by the Continental forces under General Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776. The ship was burned and sunk in the battle and raised in 1935. It came to the Smithsonian in 1960. Japanese American Internment This collection explores a period when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between the rights of the citizen and the power of the state. The 200 plus objects tell the story of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their internment between 1942 –1945. RESEARCH STAFFHACKER, Barton C., Curator. B.A. (1955 and 1960), M.A. (1962), Ph.D. (1968) University of Chicago. Research specialties: Science, technology, and the military; comparative world military history; women's military history. JONES, Jennifer Locke, Chair and Curator. B.A. (1985) George Washington University. Research specialties: Twentieth-century U.S. military history, Japanese Americans and World War II; Vietnam war; flags. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFGOLDEN, Kathleen, Associate Curator. B.A. (1985) Rutgers University. Research specialties: Navel History, Navel and Military History Collections. VINING, Margaret, Associate Curator. B.A. (1979), M.A. (1981) The George Washington University. Research specialties: History of women in military institutions, military material as primary research resources, military art. YEH, Cedric, Deputy Chair and Associate Curator. B.A. (1992) Brandies University; M.A. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: Collections Management; Asian Pacific American History and Culture. Division of Politics and ReformThe Division of Politics and Reform is dedicated to the study of American democracy and the material culture that has shaped its history. The Division gives particular attention to the political principles, practices and institutions that have shaped the political culture of the United States. The Division focuses on political relationships between groups and interests, institutions of government, and changing practices of representative and participatory democracy in a nation of diverse people and cultures. The Division is especially interested in changing definitions of citizenship and political rights; contested political ideologies; governmental policies and their impact; the role of political parties; elections; protest and reform movements; varied and changing expressions of nationalism; predictive opinion and media effects; and traditional political techniques and forms of communication. Collections Political Campaign Collection General Political History Collections Reform Movements Collections RESEARCH STAFF BIRD, William L., Curator. B.A. (1973) University of Maryland; M.A. (1975) University of Arizona; Ph.D. (1985) Georgetown University. Research specialties: Twentieth-century political campaign promotion and advertising. RAND, Harry, Senior Curator. B.A. (1969) City College of New York; M.A. (1971), Ph.D. (1974) Harvard University. Research specialties: Cultural assumptions in the material culture of fine arts; Twentieth-century painting and sculpture in America and Europe; religion and its cultural expression in theology; the methodology of art history and the humanities; modern art; oral & folkloric cultural history's relation to religion & sustainable architecture. RUBENSTEIN, Harry R., Chair and Curator. B.A. (1974), M.A. (1979) University of New Mexico; M.A. (1983) George Washington University. Research specialties: Labor history; American social history; U.S. political history. SMITH, Barbara Clark, Curator. B.A., M.A. (1973) University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. (1983) Yale University. Research specialties: Social, cultural, and political history of early America; American Revolution; women's and gender history; public history, theory and practice. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFF GRADDY, Lisa Kathleen, Deputy Chair and Curator. B.A. (1985) University of Maryland; M.A. (1987) Texas Tech University. Research specialties: Women's History Collection, Political History Collection, First Ladies Collection. The division collects the material culture of American industry and interprets it in relation to the country’s social and cultural history. Our collections, exhibits, public programs, research and writing put America’s agricultural, business, economic, engineering, industrial, and transportation heritage into historical context to better understand and explain technology and American history, society and culture. The major collecting areas are: Agriculture and Natural Resources Collections Industrial History Collections Engineering History Collections Mechanisms Collections Transportation Collections RESEARCH STAFF DANIEL, Pete, Curator. B.A. (1961), M.A. (1962) Wake Forest University; Ph.D. (1970) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Agricultural history; impact of mechanization, science, and government policy on farm structure; African American farmers and civil rights; documentary photography; pesticides; southern history. JOHNSON, Paula J., Curator. B.A. (1976) Gustavus Adolphus College; M.A. (1981) University of Texas, Austin. Research specialties: American maritime history and folklore; Chesapeake Bay maritime history; North American fisheries and fishing communities; boats and boatbuilding; American food and wine history. JOHNSTON, Paul F., Curator. B.A. (1972) Middlebury College; Ph.D. (1981) University of Pennsylvania. Research specialties: Maritime history, art and archaeology of the United States and worldwide; automobiles and motorcycles. LIEBHOLD, Peter, Chair, Division of Work and Industry. B.F.A. (1980) Maryland Institute College of Art. Research specialties: Culture of work, management practice, manufacturing technology, methods and motivations of technological change, immigration and migration, visual culture. ODO, Franklin S., Curator and Director, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. B.A. (1961) Princeton; M.A. (1963) Harvard; Ph.D. (1975) Princeton. Research specialties: Asians in America; Japanese American history; Asian American public history. SHAYT, David, Associate Director. B.A. (1977) Humboldt State University; M.A. (1983) George Washington University. Research specialties: World Trade Center collapse and recovery; American hand tools; occupational costume; lunch boxes; yo-yos; elephant ivory; tower bells; leather glove-making; Panama Canal; rituals of death and mourning. STEPHENS, Carlene, Curator. B.A. (1971) Muhlenberg College; M.A. (1976) University of Delaware. Research specialties: History of time in the United States. TOLBERT, Susan, Deputy Chair. B.S. (1974) Longwood College. Research specialties: Office collections, transportation collections, early suburban development and transportation. WHITE, Roger, Associate Curator. B.A. (1975) University of Maryland, Baltimore County; M.A. (1977) University of Delaware (Hagley Program). Research specialties: Social history of the automobile; automobile design and manufacturing; travel and tourism. WITHUHN, William L., Curator. M.B.A. (1977), M.A. (1980) Cornell University. Research specialties: Relationships of railroads to the social history of the United States; twentieth-century railroad vehicle design; and the economic and technological history of the automobile. ARCHIVES CENTERThe Archives Center Supports the mission of the National Museum of American History by preserving and providing access to documentary evidence of America's past. The Archives Center's collections complement the Museum's artifacts and are used for scholarly research, exhibitions, journalism, documentary productions, school programs, and other research and educational activities. More than 900 Archives Center collections occupy more than 12,000 feet of shelving in the American History building and in off-site storage locations. In addition to paper-based textual records, many Center collections contain photographs, motion picture films, videotapes, and sound recordings. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of technology, invention
and innovation, advertising, and American music. The Archives Center’s
holdings support research into a wide range of historical topics and themes.
Examples include the roles and activities of American women, cultural
depiction and ethnic imagery, consumer culture, and popular expression. RESEARCH STAFFHABERSTICH, David E., Associate Curator. B.F.A. (1963) Rochester Institute of Technology; graduate study in art history (1963-64) Indiana University; M.L.A. (1970) Johns Hopkins University. Research specialties: History of photographic art and technology; conservation of photographs; history of twentieth-century art; history of documentary photography. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFFLECKNER, John A., Senior Archivist. B.A. (1963) Colgate University; M.A. (1965 & 1970) University of Wisconsin. Research specialties: Archives administration; U.S. social and cultural history. JACKSON, Reuben M., Archivist. B.A. (1978) Goddard College; M.S.L.S. (1984) University of the District of Columbia. Research specialties: Duke Ellington; Jimi Hendrix; Miles Davis; Claude Thornhill; American popular music; audiovisual collections. KEEN, Catherine, Archivist. B.A. (1978) George Washington University. Research specialties: History of Washington, D.C.; history of technology collections, collections on history of sports. ORR, Craig A., Archivist. B.A. (1980), M.A. (1984) University of Delaware. Research specialties: Archives; history. RICHARDSON, Deborra A., Archivist (Chair). B.Mus. (1977) Howard University; M.L.S. (1979) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Early twentieth-century African American music; Duke Ellington; African American music and research collections; archives administration; sheet music. SIMMONS, Vanessa Broussard, Archivist. B.A. (1981) University of Maryland; M.A. (1987) George Washington University. Research specialties: Advertising and business ephemera; preservation of archival materials. SHAY, Wendy, Audio-visual Archivist. B.A. (1976) Indiana University; M.A. (1983) Cooperstown Graduate Programs, State University College, Oneonta, New York. Research specialties: Moving image archives administration; moving image preservation techniques; visual anthropology. STRANGE, Susan, Associate Curator. B.A. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: family history, decorative arts, and sheet music. THE JEROME AND DOROTHY LEMELSON CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INVENTION AND INNOVATIONThe Center was established in 1995 to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation, to encourage inventive creativity in young people, and to foster an appreciation for the central role invention and innovation play in the history of the United States. Through oral and video history interviews, the Center chronicles the
work of living inventors in many areas, from music to microelectronics
to carpentry. Information about these and other collections at NMAH relating
to invention is available on the Center’s home page (http://invention.smithsonian.org)
and a Center database tracks papers and records of modern inventors around
the country. The Center runs symposia and conference on topics relating
to invention and society and fellowships and student interns further increase
both the base of knowledge on invention and accessibility to it. The Center
also sponsors programs for school age children to inspire them not only
to learn more about invention and inventors but to tap their own creativity
in new ways. RESEARCH STAFFBEDI, Joyce E., Senior Historian. B.A. (1977) Northeastern University; M.A. (1983) James Cook University. Research specialties: History of technology, invention, photography. DENNIS, Maggie, Historian and Fellowship Coordinator. B.A. (1988) University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A. (1998) University of Delaware, Hagley Program. Research specialties: History of technology and invention; development of semi-conductor electronics, consumer culture, wearable/implantable technology. MOLELLA, Arthur P., Director. B.A. (1965) Syracuse University; M.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1972) Cornell University. Research specialties: Science and society in the U.S.; process of invention; technology and modernism; technology and urban planning. SMITH, Monica M., Lead Project Coordinator. B.A. (1992) Pomona College. Research specialties: 19th and 20th century American invention, including invention and development of the electric guitar, relationship among invention, creativity, and play, and the inventive process. AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFFOSWALD, Alison L., Archivist. B.A. (1989) St. Bonaventure University; M.S. (1992) Ball State University; M.L.S. (1994) State University of New York. Research specialties: American inventors and history of technology. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES IN NMAHDibner Library of the History of Science and TechnologyThe Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has major holdings of rare materials in the history of science and technology, with over 25,000 rare books dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Established in 1976 as the first rare book library of the 20-branch Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ system, the facility is located on the first floor of the Museum. The strengths of the Dibner Library's collections are in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, classical natural philosophy, theoretical physics (up to the early twentieth century), experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism), engineering technology (from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century), and scientific apparatus and instruments. The rare books include significant holdings of works by Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Euclid, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, René Descartes, and Pierre Simon, marquis de Laplace, Aristotle, and many others. Scientists represented by significant holdings in the 1,800 manuscript-group collection include Dominique François Arago, Humphry Davy, John William Lubbock, Isaac Newton, Henri Milne-Edwards, Hans Christian Ørsted, Henry Hureau de Sénarmont, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and Silvanus P. Thompson. Other collections of note in the library include nearly 2,000 volumes on world’s fair and exposition materials, (ca. 1850-1920). More information about the Library and its collections can be found on its home page (http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/Dibner/). The Smithsonian Institution Libraries encourages independent research
projects by Smithsonian fellows and short-term visitors, and currently
offers two resident scholar programs. The Dibner Library of the History
of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Program annually offers support
for individuals working on a topic relating to the history of science
and technology collections in the Dibner Library. The Baird Society Resident
Scholar Program offers support for research in certain other special collections
throughout the SI Libraries including the World’s Fairs Collection.
For further information on these programs please visit the Libraries’
Research & Internships page: http://www.sil.si.edu/ResearchIntern/index.htm. American History Branch, Smithsonian Institution LibrariesThe National Museum of American History Branch Library, part of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries system, is a notable research library covering broad aspects of American social, cultural, political, economic, and technological history. The Library is available for use by researchers and fellows at the Museum. The Library also encourages independent research projects by Smithsonian Fellows or Short Term Visitors using one of the Library’s most remarkable collections: some 300,000 items of trade literature representing an estimated 30,000 companies which describe and advertise products of American business, industry, agriculture, and the decorative arts. The collection includes advertising brochures, technical manuals for manufacturers and repair shops, instruction manuals for consumers, mail order catalogs, pattern and design books, price lists, parts lists, factory record books, and company histories. Another collection, the World's Fairs and Expositions, is a collection of published international exposition and world's fair materials, strongest in the period from the early fairs of the mid-nineteenth century up to the First World War. It is available on microfilm and arranged by fair name. Access to specific reels is possible using the SILs' publication, The Books of the Fairs (1992) or through its online catalog. Projects could encompass the study of industrial development, consumer trends, marketing techniques, and social history. |
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