Eric Sandweiss
Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Department of History
Adjunct Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Department of History
- sesandw@indiana.edu
- (812)-855-0210
- Ballantine Hall 8271020 E Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN47405 - Office Hours
- Campus
- IU; IU Bloomington
Full Biography
I work in the areas of museums and public history, urbanism, cultural landscape studies, and American popular culture. Since 2016 I have taken active part in IU's "Prepared for Environmental Change" Grand Challenge, connecting that project's environmental scientists to the work of historians and other scholars of the humanities and the social sciences. I also help to direct IU's interdisciplinary Curatorship MA program.
Honors and Awards
- 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
Research Interests
- Cultural landscape studies
- Urban history
- Architecture
- Public history and museums
- Visual culture
- American popular music
- Indiana
- Environmental history
Education
- A.B., Harvard University, 1981
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Courses Taught
- 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)
Publications
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.
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