Eric Sandweiss: Faculty: Faculty + Staff: Department of History: Indiana University Bloomington

Eric Sandweiss

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Department of History

Adjunct Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Department of History

I write about museums and public history, urbanism, cultural landscape studies, and American popular culture. In addition to directing IU's interdisciplinary Curatorship graduate program, I also try to link the university to its public through my service on the boards of the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the IU Historic Preservation Committee.

Ireland-US Fulbright Teaching Award
IU College of Arts and Sciences James P. Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students
UK-Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award
Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Western History Association Joan Patterson Kerr Award for Best Illustrated Book

U.S. History from 1865 to the Present (undergraduate lecture)
Hoosier Nation: Indiana in American History (undergraduate lecture)
History in Public (undergraduate seminar, graduate colloquium)
History of Collections and Museums (graduate colloquium)
From Pueblos to Strip Malls: A History of the American Landscape (undergraduate seminar)
Space and Place in History (graduate colloquium)
Cities and History (undergraduate lecture)
Modern Presidential Elections: Image and Substance (undergraduate seminar)

Books

[e-book] Our Greatest Artefact, The City: Essays on Cities and Museums about Them, co-edited with Chet Orloff, Ian Jones, and Maria Mouliou (CAMOC: The ICOM Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities, 2012)
The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey through a Vanishing America, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
[Edited and introduced] St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View Beyond the Garden Wall. Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri Press, 2003.
St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001.
[With David Harris] Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco. Montréal, CN: Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.