SARAH ANNE CARTER

The Chipstone Foundation, 750 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, Rm. 405, Milwaukee, WI, 53202

CURRENT POSITIONS

Curator and Director of Research, The Chipstone Foundation, January 2013-present

Chipstone Fellow and Lecturer in Material Culture, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 2013-Present

Visiting Lecturer, History Department, Harvard University, Fall 2013

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture, co-edited with Ivan Gaskell (under contract, Oxford University Press).
• Tangible Things with Laurel Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Schechner (under contract, Oxford University Press).
• Object Lessons: How 19^th-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World (under review). 

Articles         

• “Digital/Material: Pedagogies of Interrogating the Built Environment,” with Emily Jones (under review).
• “Stuffed into a Parakeet: Speculations on Alexander Wilson's "Faithful Companion," Specimen MCZ 67853,” Common-Place 12:2 (Winter 2012). (http://www.common-place.org/vol-12/no-02/lessons/).
• “Picturing Rooms: Interior Photography 1870–1900,” History of Photography 34:3 (2010) 251-267.
• “Reinstalling Mrs. Ward’s Corner Cupboard: Narrative and Display in a Colonial Revival House Museum,” Museum History Journal 3:1 (Winter 2010) 61-80.
• “On an Object Lesson, or Don’t Eat the Evidence,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 3:1 (Winter 2010) 6-12.
• “Sickness and Death in Doll Play, 1850-1897” in The Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2002: The Worlds of Children, ed. Peter Benes (Boston: BU, 2004), 24-41.

 Book and Exhibition Reviews

• “Century of the Child: Growing Up with Design, 1900-2000,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, July 29-November 5, 2012, for Design and Culture 5:2 (July 2013) 260-264.
• Stir it up: Home Economics in American Culture by Megan J. Elias for Journal of Social History 44:1 (Fall 2010) 252-254.
• Imagining Childhood by Erika Langmuir for Winterthur Portfolio 44:2/3 (Summer/Fall 2010) 253-4.
• Designing Modern Childhoods, for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2:1 (Winter 2009) 130-132.

 Pedagogy     

• Co-author of A Guide to Researching and Writing a Senior Thesis in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, funded by a Gordon Gray Faculty Grant for Writing Pedagogy, Harvard University, 2007.

Reference     

• “Toys” in History of World Trade Since 1450, ed. John McCusker (NY: Macmillan Reference, 2006).

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ph.D. in History of American Civilization, November 2010

Dissertation: Object Lessons in American Culture

Co-advisors: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich & Jennifer Roberts; Committee: John Stauffer & Jill Lepore

M.A. in History, 2006

University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware

M.A. in Early American Material Culture, 2004

Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts

A.B. in History, magna cum laude, 2002

HONORS

Research

• metaLAB fellow, Harvard University 2012-2013
• Royal Oak Foundation Scholar, Attingham Summer School, 2011
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009-2010              
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, 12-Month Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-9          
• The Winterthur Museum, Short-term Research Fellowship, 2007-8                     
• The Huntington Library, Short-term Mellon Fellowship, 2007-8            
• New-York Historical Society, Patricia Klingenstein Research Fellowship, 2007-8          
• Princeton University, Cotsen Children’s Library Research Fellowship, 2007-8    
• American Antiquarian Society, Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship, 2007-8                      
• Charles Warren Center, Summer Research Grant, Summer, 2007                        

Teaching

• Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Art-Making Fund (for “Storied Structures” course), Fall 2012
• Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence (for lecturers), 2011
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (for teaching fellows), 2006 & 2007
• Bok Center Graduate Writing Fellow, Harvard University, 2006

SELECTED MUSEUM AND PUBLIC HUMANITIES EXPERIENCE

Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chipstone Curator and Director of Research, January 2013-present

Set research agenda for the Chipstone Foundation and develop projects and exhibitions related to American material culture. Current projects include: Material Culture and Literature (Chip-Lit), an article and exhibition on eighteenth-century gaming tables, an exhibition on print culture, research on period rooms, and several pedagogical initiatives including teaching at Harvard and at UW-Madison. 

 Storied Structures: Using augmented reality to explore connections between material things and new media, Faculty, Summer & Fall 2012

Faculty leader of a team of programmers, designers, and students to modify augmented reality software to allow students and scholars to tell densely rendered stories about the material world and to explore the relationships between objects and their digital analogs; supported by the Harvard Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows program and an Elson Art-Making Grant; technology employed in an undergraduate course in Fall of 2012.

 Boston Children’s Museum Centennial, Advisory Board Member, Researcher and Writer, Fall 2011-Fall 2012

Developed content for an e-book celebrating the history of the Boston Children’s Museum from 1913 to 2013 (http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/history-timeline/index.html)

Attingham Summer School, Scholar, Summer 2011

Awarded a scholarship from the Royal Oak Foundation and the American Friends of Attingham for the intensive study of historic houses in England and Wales, July 1-19, 2011 (http://www.attinghamtrust.org/) 

Harvard University, Project Manager Tangible Things, 2010-2011

University-wide museum exhibition, in seven sites across campus, coordinated all facets of the exhibition involving two hundred objects and fourteen loaning collections, including research, writing, object management, and PR (http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/upcoming/detail.dot?id=32778)

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Curatorial Assistant, Summer 2006

Research and writing for “A Public Patriotic Museum” an exhibition on the Artemas Ward House (http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/past/detail.dot?id=19179)

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Visiting Lecturer in History, Fall 2013

Team-teaching the General Education course “Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History” with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and developing material culture modules based on the course for HarvardX.  

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Lecturer in History and Literature, Fall 2010-December 2012

Advised senior theses in History and Literature and Folklore and Mythology; designed syllabi for and taught the following undergraduate courses:

• Spring 2012: Sophomore American Studies Course (team taught with Lauren Brandt): “The American Marketplace”
• Fall 2011 & 2012: Upper-level, undergraduate seminar, “Storied Structures: The Material and Cultural Life of the New England Home, 1600-1900”
• 2010-2011: Junior tutorial, a small, year-long seminar, on US cultural history: “Representing and Remembering Postwar US Culture: Reflections on Identity, Place, and Violence”
• Spring 2011 & 2012: Freshman Seminar, “Archives of Childhood,” social, cultural, material, and visual history of children and childhood in the United States

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Lecturer in History, Fall 2011

• Designed syllabus and taught the Early American Survey course; lectured twice a week, designed assignments and exams, and assessed students.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Visiting Lecturer, American Studies Seminar, Fall 2010

• Designed syllabus and taught honors seminar “Sexuality in Early America, 1600-1876,” on AAS research collections for 12 students from the 5 undergraduate colleges in Worcester: Assumption, Clark, Holy Cross, WPI, and Worchester State. Each student prepared and formally presented a research paper now part of a bound volume in the AAS library.

SEA Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, Teaching Assistant, Winter 2007

• Assisted professor Mary Malloy with the course “Maritime Studies: Islands and Empires” as part of the Semester at SEA program, graded papers and taught academic writing

Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA, Museum Studies Program, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006

• Assisted Professor Mary Malloy with the writing-intensive graduate course “The Role of Museums in History,” graded papers and gave a guest lecture on children’s museums

Conference Panels Organized

• Organizer of the roundtable “About Something or for Someone? Curatorial Ethics and Cultural Debts” for the American Studies Association (ASA) 2013 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 21-24, 2013. (Panel accepted)
• Co-organizer of “Objects of Learning: Material Culture, Imaginative Pedagogy, and the Transformation of American Childhood, 1880-1980” for the American Studies Association (ASA) 2011 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23; paper title: “Developing the Historical Sense: Material Culture and the Historical Imagination, 1880-1920.”
• Co-organizer of “Unfamiliar and Faraway: The Material Culture of Children’s Education about Foreign Places” for the American Historical Association Annual Meeting (AHA) 2010, San Diego, CA, January 7-10; paper title, “The Foreign Qualities of Objects: “Object Lessons” and the Creation of a Material Geography.”
• Co-organizer of “Feeling like you Belong: Sensory Perception, Experience, and Group Identity” for the American Studies Association (ASA) 2009 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 5-9; paper title, “Cultivating Domestics in the Kitchen-Garden: Shaping Servants’ Bodies via Kindergarten Methods, 1876-1910.”

Conference Papers Presented

• “The Kitchen-Garden: Shaping Girls into Ideal Servants through Kindergarten Methods, 1876-1910,” SHCY, June 25-27 2013, Nottingham University.
• “New Ways to Study Old Things: Adapting Emerging Technologies for the Humanities Classroom” for NERCOMP 2013, March 11-13, 2013 in Providence, RI.
• “Model Lessons: Object Lessons as Anti-Models in the Nineteenth-Century Classroom,” on the panel “Models and Materiality,” Three Societies, History of Science Society, July 11-14, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
• Roundtable participant contributing work on “The Paintings of Harriet Beecher Stowe” to “Material Religion: Making Objects, (Re)Making the Self,” 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 9-11, 2011, Amherst, MA.
• “Common Things: Teaching American Children to Think, 1820-1850,” on the panel, “Shaping Childhoods in the Early Republic,” OAH Annual Meeting Mar 17- 20, 2011, Houston, TX.
• “Object Lessons and Material Culture,” as part of the roundtable “Teaching and Learning with Objects: an Agenda for Change in Times of Crisis” for the ASA Annual Meeting, Nov 18-21, 2010, San Antonio, TX.
• “Disconcerting Answers: Students’ Responses to Object Lessons, 1850-1900,” Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY), Berkeley, CA, July 10-12, 2009.
• “Object Lessons into Science: Objects and Pictures in the Nineteenth-Century Classroom,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Seattle, March 26-29, 2009.
• “Object Lessons in Race at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute,” Southern American Studies Association, GMU, February 12-14, 2009.
• “Object Lessons in Children’s Material Worlds,” Home, School, Play, Work: The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children, Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC,) Worcester, MA, November 14-15, 2008.
• “Object Lessons in the Nineteenth-Century Classroom,” Politics, Activism and the History of America's Public Schools, University of Pennsylvania, April 12, 2008.
• “Hands-on History: The Americana Collection at the Boston Children’s Museum, 1913-1937,” SHCY, Linköping University (LiU), Norrköping, Sweden, June 27-30, 2007.
• “Reflecting Self-Image: The Private Spaces of Adolescent Girls and Young Women, 1875-1910,” Exposing the Nineteenth Century: Interiors, Interiority, and Introspection, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, November 6, 2004.
• “Reflecting Self-Image: ‘Girlhood’ Interiors, 1875-1910,” Age, Gender and Domestic Culture, Bedford Centre for the History of Women and the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, London, England, July 3, 2004.
• “Charity Begins in the Dollhouse, 1875-1900,” SHCY, UMBC, June 26-29 2003.

Chair or Commentator at Conference

• Chair and commentator: “Whales, Balloons, and Boxcars: Imperial Objects in the Long Nineteenth Century,” ASA Annual Meeting, November 15-18, 2012, San Juan, PR. 
• Chair and commentator: “Representations of History for Children and Youth,” SHCY, Columbia University, June 23-25, 2011.
• Commentator: “Sites of Socialization and Spaces of Enculturation in 20th-Century Children's Worlds,” SHCY, Marquette Univ., August 4-7, 2005.

Invited Lectures and Seminars

• Visiting faculty at the 2013 CHAViC Summer Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society, “Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890,” July 7-12, 2013.
• “Object Lessons, Tangible Things, Storied Structures: New Approaches to Object-Centered History,” American Art Society, Milwaukee Wisconsin, March 18, 2013.
• “Object Lessons and Material Culture,” Boston University Material Culture Series, November 29, 2012.
• “Picture Lessons: Object Lessons and Visual Culture,” The Newberry Seminar in American Art and Visual Culture, September 21, 2012.
• “Tangible Things and Material Culture,” guest lecture for. Prof. Christina Hodge’s Museum Methods seminar, Harvard Extension School, November 7, 2011.
• “Richardson’s Aesthetic,” guest lecture for Prof. Ann Wilson’s Gilded Age History course, Harvard University, March 23, 2011. 
• “Using Interior Photography” guest lecture for Prof. Brock Jobe’s American Interiors Course, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware, February 21, 2011.
• “Learning in the Museum,” guest lecture for Prof. Mary Malloy’s “Muse E-150/W: The Role of Museums in History” at the Harvard Extension School, October 24, 2007.
• “The Origins of Child-Centered and Object-Based Pedagogy,” guest lecture for Prof. Emily Cahan’s course “Children and Families in the United States” at Wheelock College, October 16, 2007.
• “Reflecting Self-Image: College Girls' Rooms 1875-1910,” The Gibson House Museum, Boston, MA, February 26, 2006.

Lectures on Pedagogy and Museum Studies

• “Teaching and Interpreting Objects,” with Eoin Cannon, History and Literature Tutor Workshop, August 30, 2011.
• “Understanding early American life and the culture of childhood through painting and crafts,” invited to teach a workshop for elementary school teachers at Primary Source in Watertown, MA, November 29, 2006.

SERVICE

Academic     

• Co-editor of the “Object Lessons” column (with Ellery Foutch) for www.common-place.org, the online history magazine (4/2013-present)
• Material Culture Caucus Program Committee, American Studies Association (10/2009-present)
• Outside Reviewer, Czech Science Foundation (10/2012)
• Editor, H-Childhood, H-NET at MSU, Society for the History of Children and Youth (9/2003-9/2007) 

University    

• Organizer, Harvard Early American Workshop (9/2009-6/2010)
• GSAS representative to the Student Advisory Group for the Harvard Presidential Search (5/2006-4/2007)
• Member of Harvard College Board of Freshman Advisors (9/2005-6/2007)
• Harvard Pedagogical Improvement Committee, GSAS Representative (10/2005-12/2007)
• Harvard Graduate Student Council, Vice President (5/2006-5/2007)
• GSAS Representative, Harvard Library Committee (10/2004-6/2006)