Gretchen and students near the lake

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

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 Curator of Exhibitions including: “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

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