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Biography

Catharine Dann Roeber teaches graduate courses for the Winterthur Program, including American Interiors, Exhibitions and Interpretation, British Design History and additional field study courses. Her areas of research include decorative arts and material culture, culinary history, history of print and ephemera, and Pennsylvania material and architectural heritage.

In addition to teaching and leading the Academic Affairs team at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Catharine Dann Roeber is executive editor of听Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture听and Director of Winterthur鈥檚 Research Fellowship Program. Her work centers supporting, advocating for, and participating in endeavors to build a more equitable and inclusive future for cultural heritage, decorative arts, and material culture studies, and conservation through exhibitions, programs, teaching, mentoring, and community collaboration. She recently co-edited听The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture. Roeber draws on her background of international experience with archeology departments, research libraries, museums and cultural non-profits in encouraging people to enjoy and study stuff. Other pursuits include researching built environments and landscapes, historic foodways, print culture, historic interiors, and collecting, collections and museums.
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Education

• Ph.D., The College of William and Mary (History)
• M.A., 91原创 (Winterthur Program in Early American Culture)
• B.A., The College of William and Mary (Anthropology)
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Select Publications

• Co-editor with Lu Ann De Cunzo, Cambridge University Press Handbook of Material Culture Studies (2022)
• 鈥淲here William Penn Slept (and Why it Matters)鈥� in The Worlds of William Penn (2019)
• 鈥淏eautiful Busks鈥� Antiques and Fine Art (2011)
• 鈥淒ecoding a Historic Map鈥� Antiques and Fine Art (2009)

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Select Exhibitions

• Curator,听Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur,听Winterthur Galleries (2024)
• Faculty Curator,听Truths of the Trade: Slavery and the Winterthur Collection, Society of Winterthur Fellows Gallery (2018)
• Curator,听Bein鈥� Green: The History of a Color. Winterthur Library Exhibit (2015)
• Co-curator,听Tiffany: The Color of Luxury, Winterthur Fellows Gallery (2015)
• Curator,听Table Talk: Philadelphia in the New Nation, Winterthur Galleries (2014)
• Curator,听Amelung Glass, Case Exhibit, Winterthur (2011-present)
• Co-Curator,听Dipped, Dripped, and Dug: English Industrial Slipware from Winterthur & Independence Historical Park, Delaware Antiques Show Loan Exhibition (2010)