Summer 2002
GW Awards Smithsonian Anthropologist
Rose Called "One-Woman Graduate School"
Carolyn Rose, adjunct associate professor of
art and anthropology, was awarded The George Washington Universitys
Presidents Medal at a ceremony last month. Rose, an internationally
distinguished conservation scientist, has been critical to the establishment
of GWs museum studies program. After graduating from Sweet Briar
College in 1971, she came to GW only to discover the field she wanted
to study did not exist. So she created both the field and the degree,
earning a masters degree in special studies focusing on: anthropology,
art history, and classical archaeology, conservation science, and museum
studies.
Rose continues to teach and advise at the University, in addition to
her work as chair of the Smithsonian Institutions anthropology
department.
[Rose] became, in essence, a one-woman graduate school who has
taught every prominent person in the field who works with anthropological
objects, says President Trachtenberg.
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