Martha sandweiss biography

Sandweiss is a historian of the United States, with particular interests in the history of the American West, visual culture, and public history.
Martha Ann Sandweiss (born March 29, 1954) is an American historian, with particular interests in the history of the American West, visual culture.
She received her bachelor of arts at Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1975, majoring in American history and literature.

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Martha A. Sandweiss

American historian (born 1954)

Martha Ann Sandweiss (born March 29, 1954)^[1] is an American historian, with particular interests in the history of the American West, visual culture, and public history. She is a professor of History at Princeton University, and the author of several books.^[2] Sandweiss is the Founder and Project Director of the Princeton & Slavery Project, a large-scale investigation into Princeton University's historical ties to the institution of slavery.^[3]

Princeton & Slavery Project

The Princeton & Slavery Project began with an undergraduate research seminar Sandweiss taught in spring 2013, and has since grown to comprise a website and public programming events in Princeton, New Jersey.^[4] The Project website launched on November 6, 2017, and currently includes more than 90 scholarly essays, a digital archive of hundreds of historical sources, video interviews with Princeton University alumni, and other multimedia tools and features.^[4] A scholarly symposium prese

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Martha Sandweiss

Martha Sandweiss is recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts in the history of photography in particular and visual culture generally. Her most recent work was awarded the Organization of American Historian’s “Ray Allen Billington Prize.”Selected Publications:Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (Yale University Press, 2002). Paperback edition, 2004.Co-editor with Clyde A. Milner and Carol A. O’Connor, The Oxford History of the American West(Oxford University Press, 1994).Editor and Contributor, Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991)With Rick Stewart, Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848(Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989)Editor and Introduction, Elizabeth W. Forster and Laura Gilpin, Denizens of the Desert (University of New Mexico Press, 1988)Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace (Amon Carter Museum, 1986)Editor, Contemporary Texas: A Photographic Portrait (Texas Monthly Press, 1985)Editor, Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait (Texas Monthly Press, 1985)Masterworks

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Sandweiss, Martha A(nn) 1954-

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PERSONAL: Born March 29, 1954, in St. Louis, MO; daughter of Jerome Wesley and Marilyn Joy (Glik) Sandweiss; married; children: two. Education: Radcliffe College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1975; Yale University, M.A., 1977, M.Phil., 1979, Ph.D., 1985.

ADDRESSES: Home—90 Arnold Rd., Pelham, MA 01002. Office—101 Morgan Hall, Amherst College, P.O. Box 2241, Amherst, MA 01002-5000. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, research fellow, 1975-76; Strawbery Banke, Inc., Portsmouth, NH, National Trust for Historic Preservation intern, 1977; Yale-New Haven Teachers' Institute, New Haven, CT, instructor in colonial American material culture, 1978; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, curator of photographs, 1979-86, adjunct curator, 1987-89; Amherst College, Amherst, MA, director of Mead Art Museum, 1989-97, and adjunct associate professor of fine arts and American studies, 1989-94, associate professor of American studies, 1994-97, associate professor of American studies and history, 1997