RUSSELL L. LEWIS, JR.

Chicago History Museum

1601 North Clark Street

Chicago, IL  60614

312-799 2010

lewis@chicagohistory.org

707 West Junior Terrace, No. 10

Chicago, IL  60613

773-348-3353 (h)

773-387-5284 (c)

1992            Museum Management Institute, The Getty  Institute, Berkeley, California

1980-85            A.B.D.  Program in American  The University of Michigan

1974-75            M.A.  In American Culture, The University of Michigan

1973-74            Post-Baccalaureate study, archaeological excavation, St. Augustine, Florida

1972                        Archaeology Field School, St. Augustine, Florida

1969-73            B.A. in Anthropology with High Honors, major in historical archaeology, the University of Florida

2005-                        Executive Vice President and Chief Historian. Chicago History Museum (CHM)

2005                        Acting President, Chicago Historical Society (CHS)

1998-            Andrew W. Mellon Director for Collections and Research (CHS)

2000-01            Acting Co-President (CHS)

1996-98            Deputy Director for Collections and Research (CHS)

1995-96            Assistant Director for Research and Curatorial Affairs (CHS)

1993-95            Director of Curatorial Affairs (CHS)                          

1986-93            Director of Publications and Editor (CHS)

1984-86            Associate Editor (CHS)

1982-83                                   Assistant Editor (CHS)

1981-82            Market Research Assistant, The University of Chicago Press                           

1971-73            Cataloguer, Social Science Division (part-time), Florida State Museum

Historic Photos of Chicago’s World’s Fair. (Nashville:Turner Publishing Company, 2010)

Historic Photos of Chicago. (Nashville:Turner Publishing Company, 2006)

“Reflection on the Journey,” in The Journey:The Next 100 Years, Michael Ensdorf, Leigh Moran, Patrick Lytle, Amy Hajdas, and Denise Billups, eds. (Chicago:Roosevelt University, 2006).

“Judgments of Value, Judgments of Fact: The Ethical Dimension of Biohistorical Research,” The Public Historian, Winter 2006, volume 28, number 1, pp. 93-99.

“Constructing Ethical Guidelines for Biohistory,” with Lori Andrews, Nancy Buenger, Jennifer Bridge, Laurie Rosenow, David Stoney, R.E. Gaensslen, Theodore Karamanski, Jordan Paradise, Amy Inlander, and David Gonen, Science 304 (April 9, 2004), pp. 215-16.

“Abraham Lincoln and the Chicago Historical Society,” Chicago History, Spring 1996, volume 25, number 1, pp. 26-57.

“Curating With the Community,” Museum News, May/June 1994, pp. 41-43.

With Mary Jane Jacob, Narvelle Jubelin: Soft Shoulders, Big Shoulders Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 1994.

“Everything Under One Roof: World’s Fairs and Department Stores in Paris and Chicago,” Chicago History, Fall 1983, volume 12, number 3, pp. 28-47.

“Residual Anguish, Compassion, and Aestheto-Genesis in Soleri’s Arcologies,” TheTeilhard Review, June 1977, volume 12, number 2, pp. 44-47.

With Henryk Skolimowski, “Arcology as an Alternative Urban Habitat,” Impact of Science on Society (UNESCO), April-June 1977, volume 27, number 2, pp. 205-15.

“Abraham Lincoln and Popular Memory,” 2009, Abraham Lincoln: Lessons of History and the Contemporary World conference, the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

“Bring Me the DNA of Abraham Lincoln:Who Makes Decisions for the Dead,” 2007, presented by the Illinois Humanities Council, Decatur, Illinois.

“Wet With Blood,” 2008, Future Perfect:Conversations on the Meaning of the Genetic Revolution, presented by the Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago History Museum.

Presentations to professional organizations, 1985-: American Library Association, Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware, American Association of Museums, The Society of American Archivists, National Museum Publishing Seminar, American Association for State and Local History, Organization of American Historians, and American Association of Historians

Member of:

The Urban History Association, American Association of Museums, NAME, CUR COM, American Historical Association, National Association for Public Historians, Organization of American Historians, Illinois State Historical Society, Association for State and Local History, Abraham Lincoln Association, Culinary Historians of Chicago

Organizer/Project Director

Conference Co-Organizer: Wet with Blood:  The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Cloak, 1999

Co-Organizer (with Michigan State University and the Smithsonian Institution), “South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program,” 1998-2001

Project Director, Neighborhoods:  Keepers of Culture, 1993-98

Project Director, Chicago Goes to War, 1940-45, an exhibition on the history of Chicago’s home front, 1990-92

Project Director, National Planning Committee for 1990 urban history conference, “Modes of Inquiry for American City History” 1987-90

Grant Reviewer

Institute of Museum and Library Services: MAP, GOS, Digital, Leadership grants Reviewer, 1993-

National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Programs, Preservation and Access, 1990-

Museums In the Parks, Chair, Operating Committee, 2008-

Illinois Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, 2007-09

Ford’s Theatre Advisory Board, 2007-

The History Makers National Advisory Board, 2007-

American Association for State and Local History Council, 2008-2011; AASLH Book Series Editor, 2008-

Trustee, Chicago Historical Society, 2006 -

Eastland Disaster Historical Society: Board of Directors, President, 2001-

Illinois State Historical Society:  Advisory Board 2000-02; Chair, Awards Committee, 2000-; Board of Directors, 2002-; Executive Committee, 2003-; Secretary, 2005-09; Vice President, 2009-11; President, 2011-

Board of Directors, Abraham Lincoln Society, 2012-

Urban History Association: Dissertation Award Committee, 1995, Director, 1997-2000; Book Prize Committee, “Best Book in North American Urban History,” 1997

Chicago Studies Program Advisory Board, Loyola University, 2001-03

Illinois Representative, Membership Committee, Organization of American Historians, 1995–98