Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Carter
- Country
- United States
- State
- WI Wisconsin
- scarter@chipstone.org
- Affiliation
- Chipstone Foundation & UW-Madison
- Website URL
- www.chipstone.org
- Keywords
- 19th-century US history, material culture, history of childhood, history of education, history of the home and family, history of museums and critical museum studies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am the Curator and Director of Research of the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee and the Chipstone Fellow in Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I completed my Ph.D. in American Studies at Harvard in 2010 and her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture on 2004. My co-authored book Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects (with Laurel Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell and Sara Schechner) came out in 2015 and is the basis for a free online course available through EdX. I am the author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World (2018) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. I has published, lectured and taught courses on material culture, museum practice and American cultural history and have collaboratively curated a wide range of exhibitions.
- Recent Publications
Selected recent publications:
Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Male Sense of the Material World (Oxford University Press 2018)
“Scooby Doo in the Museum” Avidly, LA Review of Books, March 27, 2018: http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2018/03/27/scooby-doo-in-the-museum/
“Object Study as Interdisciplinary Exploration for the Twenty-First Century” Panorama, Summer 2016 (2:1): http://journalpanorama.org/sarah-anne-carter-the-chipstone-foundation/
Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects (with Laurel Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell and Sara Schechner) (Oxford University Press 2015)
- Media Coverage
- http://www.wuwm.com/post/radio-chipstone-florence-eiseman-creating-look-modern-child#stream/0
- Social Media
- @retracharas
- Country Focus
- United States of America
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Children & Youth, Family, Museums, Pedagogy, Public History, Women
