David Glassberg - UMass Amherst



David Glassberg

Department of History

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts 0l003

(4l3) 545-1330

email: glassberg@history.umass.edu

Education:

B.A., University of Chicago, l976.

M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, l982

Current Position:

Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Selected Honors and Fellowships:

Environmental Design Research Association/Places Award for Research (for People and Places on the Outer Cape), 2005.

Scholar-in-Residence, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP, National Park Service, Spring 2001.

G.W. Johnson Prize (for best article in 1996), National Council on Public History, 1997.

Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-94.

Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, 1979-80.

Selected Publications and Conference Papers:

Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2001).

American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990).

“Rethinking the Statue of Liberty: Old Meanings, New Contexts,” in Statue of Liberty National Monument: New Directions (US National Park Service & Organization of American Historians, 2005), 10-13.

“What’s American About American Lieux de Mémoire?“ for “The Merits of Memory: Uses and Abuses of a Concept,” Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, June 2005.

“Interpreting Landscapes,” in Public History and the Environment ed. M. Melosi and P. Scarpino (Melbourne, FL: Krieger Press, 2004), pp. 23-36.

(with Jack Ahern, Ethan Carr, and Elisabeth Hamin) People and Places on the Outer Cape: A Landscape Character Study (US National Park Service, 2004)

“Managing the Sense of a Bioregion,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, 2001.

“Presenting History to the Public," CRM (Cultural Resources Management) 21 (1998): 4-8.

“Fundamental Questions, or the Necessity for Museums,” W.T.Alderson Memorial Keynote Address, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Annual Meeting, November 1996.

“Public History and the Study of Memory,” Public Historian 18 (Spring 1996): 7-23.

Selected Public Projects and Programs for Teachers:

Consultant, Research and Reinterpretation Project, Statue of Liberty National Monument, 2002-2005.

Consultant, “Open House,” exhibit for Minnesota Historical Society, 2003-05.

Consultant, Reinterpreting Historical Collections, Boston Children’s Museum, July 2005.

Workshop, “Cape Conversations: Landscape Character on the Outer Cape,” Cape Cod National Seashore, 2003-2004.

Director, “Where We Live,” Mass Foundation for the Humanities sponsored environmental history series for secondary school teachers, Five College Public School Partnership, September - May, 1997-98, 1996-97, 1995-1996, 1994-1995, 1992-1993.

Workshop, “Preserving the Past in 20th Century Massachusetts,” NEH sponsored seminar series for museum and historic site personnel, Bay State Historical League, May 1997.

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