william s. walker
Assistant Professor, History
Email: walkerws@oneonta.edu
Ph.D. Brandeis University, American History
B.A. Cornell University, American Studies & English
museum experience
- Paul Revere House, Boston MA
- Museum of Science, Boston MA
- Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, NY
- Tompkins County Museum, Ithaca NY
- Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution Archives
major publications
- “John C. Ewers and the Problem of Cultural History: Displaying American Indians at the Smithsonian in the Fifties,” Museum History Journal (Vol.1 No. 1)
- “Thomas Bowers” in African American National Biography. Henry L. Gates, ed. Oxford University Press, 2008.
current projects
- A Living Exhibition: Smithsonian Folklife and the Making of the Modern Museum, a revision of his Doctoral thesis which will include exploration of exhibits from several Smithsonian Museums during the 1980s and 1990s.
professional societies
- Organization of American Historians
- National Council on Public History
courses
- Research and Fieldwork
- American Cultures I and II
- Class, Race and Gender
- Topics in History
