gretchen sullivan sorin

Director/Distinguished Professor, Museum Studies
Email: sorings@oneonta.edu
Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany, Department of History
M.A. State University College at Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program, History Museum Studies
B.A. Douglass College, Rutgers University

museum experience

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
• Fellow, New York Academy of History
• AASLH New York State Awards Chairman, 1998-present
• MAP reviewer, AAM 1991-present
• Peer Reviewer, NEH, IMLS, MAP III
• Director, Gadsby's Tavern Museum, 1977–1980
• Chair, Governor’s Commission on the Freedom Trail, 2000
• Faculty/Coach, American Memories Fellows Program, Library of Congress National Digital Library, 1999-2001
• Adjunct Professor of Public History at the State University of New York at Albany
• Consultant to more than 200 museums and historical organizations as a scholar, exhibit curator, education and interpretive program planner and developer.

major publications

• Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan (New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1997), with Andrew S. Dolkart
• Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews (New York: Braziller Books & the Jewish Museum, 1992), with J. Saltzman & A. Back
• Present Meets Past, All About Me, and The Place Where I Live, (two volumes) The New York State Historical Association
• “The Tavern in Society” and “Tavern Fare: Comestibles in Alexandria, 1770-1819,” Northern Virginia Heritage

major exhibitions

• “In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 2001
• “Wilderness Cure: Tuberculosis and the Adirondacks,” The Adirondack Museum, 1995
• “Dvorak: Culture and Society in the 19th Century,” Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, 1993
• “Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews,” The Jewish Museum, 1992

awards

• Katherine Coffey Award, 2009
• Fellow, New York Academy of History
• SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition Award, 2005
• Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Activities, 2002

courses

• Introduction to Museums: Purpose, Function, and History
• Museum Exhibition
• Topics in Museum Studies

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