Fath Davis Ruffins recognized for “tour de force”
Fath Davis Ruffins, Curator in the Division of Cultural and Community Life at the Smithsonian American History Museum, was awarded the G. Wesley Johnson Award by the National Council on Public History for her essay, “Building Homes for Black History: Museum Founders, Founding Directors, and Pioneers, 1915-95”, published in “State of Black Museums: Historiography Commemorating the Founding and Existence of Black Museums over Four Decades” special issue, The Public Historian Vol 40, No 3.
“Fath Davis Ruffins has produced a tour de force,” said NCPH in its announcement. “‘Building Homes for Black History’ provides important information that remains under-studied in the history of the Black Museum Movement. This essay is methodologically innovative and addresses the ever-present conundrum of connecting the doing of public history with the studying of public history in a novel way. This essay will be inspiring to emerging public historians as well as current practitioners in the field.”
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Posted: 7 March 2019
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