
douglas kendall
Curator of Collections, NYSHA/The Farmers' Museum
Email: kendalld@nysha.org
Ph.D. Boston University
M.A. Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware
B.A. Haverford College
museum experience
- Curator of Domestic Life, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1993–1999
- Project Registrar, USS Constitution Museum, Boston, MA, 1991–1993
- Director, Gore Place Society, Waltham, MA, 1990–1991
- Cataloger, Old South Association, Boston, MA, 1990
- Teaching Fellow, History Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 1989–1990
- Cataloger, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, MA., 1989
- Director/Curator, The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, CT 1985–1988
major publications and exhibitions
- “Future Visions,” December, 2000; “Of Craftsmen and Consumers: Wisconsin and the Arts & Crafts Movement, 1885-1940,” 1998
- “Meet the New Servant: Housework, Technology and Society, 1850-1990,” 1997
- Curator’s Choice, 1996; “On Common Ground: Two Hundred Years of Wisconsin History,” 1995
- “Untrammeled Inquiry? The Vexed Question of Academic Freedom at the University of Wisconsin, 1894–1994,” 1994–1995
- “A Century of Service,” 1992; “A Look Below the Waterline,” 1992
courses
- Collections Care and Management
Douglas Kendall
Andy Stupperich and Douglas Kendall examine an object at the Iroquois Storage Facility.