Dr. Carole Rosenstein
Carole Rosenstein studies cultural policy, public culture and cultural democracy. She was a 2007 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. From 2000-2007, she worked as a cultural policy researcher and analyst at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC., where she is currently an affiliated scholar. Dr. Rosenstein has taught cultural policy, public culture, and social theories of art and culture at The Corcoran College of Art + Design and in the Master of Arts Management Program at George Mason University. She is author of Diversity and Participation in the Arts and How Cultural Heritage Organizations Serve Communities, and has contributed to numerous other Urban Institute research publications on the arts and culture. Dr. Rosenstein’s work has been published in Semiotica, Ethnologies and The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University.
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Rosenstein’s research engages questions about how expressive forms – rituals, images, performances, material culture – serve as catalysts for negotiations of identity and power, and how policies influence these negotiations by legitimizing some questions, speakers, and forms, while ignoring others. Her approach to cultural policy study is primarily cultural, comparative, and historical, seeking to understand the systems of value and belief that ground policy decisions, and seeing cultural policy as a critical site where values and beliefs are contested. Dr. Rosenstein is currently working on two research studies. The first, commissioned by the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services, is a comprehensive, national study of government support for museums. The second examines how policies affect living culture and community-based cultural organizations in New Orleans. This project, like most of Dr. Rosenstein’s work, has an applied component, which is developing programs in community-based public culture in New Orleans neighborhoods.
Courses:
AAP 509 : Research in Arts Management
AAP 508 : Arts & Cultural Policy & Diplomacy
AAP 515 : Public Culture