Steven Lubar

About Steven Lubar

I am retired from teaching in the American studies and history departments at Brown, but still writing about museums and museum history, the history of technology, and local history. I occasionally take on museum consulting and curating projects. I\'m the President of the Little Compton Historical Society. At Brown, I have been Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library, Founding Director for the first ten years, and then, for Spring semester 2023, Interim Director, of Brown\'s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and Director of Brown\'s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Before coming to Brown in 2004 I was a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. My blog: stevenlubar.net. CV: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/slubar

Experience

1. Principal

   Museum Consulting Services

   Jan 1990 — Present · Little Compton, RI, US

   Some recent consulting work:Consultant to Brooklyn Navy Yard \"Building 92\" exhibitions, 2009-12Consultant to Western Reserve Historical Society virtual curator project, 2009-11Museum Assessment Program advisor, Manitoga: The Russel Wright Design Center, 2009-10 Consultant to National Museum of American History “American Enterprise” exhibit, 20••••14 Consultant to Rochester Museum and Science Center on invention exhibit, 2010-11 Consultant to Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Navy Yard education programs, 2011Consultant to Boston National Historical Park on Boston Navy Yard project, 2012Consultant to Wagner Free Institute of Science on university programs, Philadelphia, 2012Consultant to Lockwood-Matthews Mansion “Victorian Technology” exhibition 2012-13Consultant to New Bedford Whaling Museum on collections development, 20••••15 and 20••••23Consultant to Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages exhibition, 2017-Consultant to Little Compton Historical Society, 2012-Member of OAH advisory committee for Coltsville National Historical Park, 2019Consultant to the Museum of the CIty of New York, 2019Consultant to the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, 2019Consultant to National Park Service Saugus Ironworks NHS, 2022Consultant to Lukas Museum of Narrative Art, 20••••23

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  B.S, Humanities and Science

  1972 — 1976

• University of Chicago

  PhD, History of Science and Technology, American History

  1976 — 1983

Skills

• Teaching
• Historic Preservation
• Art Exhibitions
• Museums
• Nonprofits
• Art
• History
• Anthropology
• Editing
• Grants
• Museum Collections
• Digital Humanities
• Museum Education
• Lecturing
• University Teaching
• Non-Profits
• Blogging
• Brown Design Workshop: Woodworking and Laser Cutting
• Research
• Community Outreach
• Program Development
• Cultural Heritage
• History of Technology
• Curating
• Higher Education
• Grant Writing
• Public History
• American History