Candace Greene

Collections and
Archives Resource Officer

Title:
Candace Greene, Ph.D.
North American Ethnologist

Phone: 202-633-1929
Fax: 202-357-2208
Email address:
greenec@si.edu

Mailing Address:
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012, MRC 112
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA

Courier Delivery Address:
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560-0112

Position and Responsibilities:
I am an ethnologist with the Collections and Archives Program. In more than 20 years at the Smithsonian, I have worked on a variety of projects to promote access, preservation, and research use of the artifact and archival collections, ranging from collection moves to collections research. I also teach with the Anthropology Department at George Washington University and work with interns and fellows from GWU and elsewhere.

Education and Professional Activities:
My Ph.D. in Anthropology is from the University of Oklahoma, where I worked for the university's Museum of  Natural History (then the little Stovall Museum) for several years. I am currently (2007-2009) President of the Native American Art Studies Association and a member of the board of the Council for Museum Anthropology (2006-2009). I also serve on the editorial boards of Museum Anthropology and American Indian Art Magazine.

Major Research Interests:
My research focuses on Native North American art and material culture, especially Plains Indian drawings. I have worked principally with Kiowa and Cheyenne people in understanding materials from those communities and making them more accessible to tribal members. More broadly, I am interested in the anthropology of museum collections, considering what the process of museumification does to objects and information.

Selected Publications:
100 Summers: A Kiowa Calendar
University of Nebraska Press, in press
From buffalo to bi-planes, a Kiowa perspective on Oklahoma history from 1828 to 1928. Anticipated to appear in 2008 in conjunction with an exhibit at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma.

The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
ed. with Russell Thornton. University of Nebraska Press (2007)
The definitive reference work on the many winter counts in NMNH and NMAI collections, with chapters by Christina Burke, Greene, and Thornton, and contributions by Emil Her Many Horses and Dakota Goodhouse.

Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa
University of Oklahoma Press (2001)
One of the great American artists of all time!

Some Online Exhibits:
Lakota Winter Counts, developed in partnership with Robert Leopold, in response to Lakota people's request to make information available online. It has received the UN World Summit Award and a Webby Award and is widely used by native people, scholars, and educators.

Kiowa Drawings, an ancient exhibit in the digital world [1999] but still useful for quick access.