Candace Greene

Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology
Ethnologist, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
E-mail greenec@si.edu
Office: National Museum of Natural History, MRC 112 / (202) 633-1929

Dr. Greene is a cultural anthropologist with a special interest in the intellectual management of museum collections and how it articulates with collections research and community access.

Research

I direct the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, a new program offered by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History with major funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation. The program seeks to promote broader and more effective use of museum collections in anthropological research by providing a supplement to university training. Working intensively each summer with 12 students interested in museum research, the institute seeks to:

• introduce students to the scope of collections and their potential as data
• provide training in appropriate methods to collect and analyze museum data
• make participants aware of a range of theoretical issues relating to collections
• position students to apply their knowledge within their home university.

Selected Publications

Books

2009	Greene, C.100 Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
2007	Greene, C., and R. Thornton, eds. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
2001	Greene, C. Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Articles and Online Resources

n.d.	Lakota Winter Counts - available at http://wintercounts.si.edu
n.d.	Kiowa Drawings - available at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/kiowa/kiowa.htm
1996	"Discovering the audience: A reorientation in museum analysis," Reviews in Anthropology 24: 267-276.

Course Taught

Anth 230: Anthropology in the Museum

Education