Sarah Leavitt
Curator
Phone: 202.272.2448, ext. 3455
Email: sleavitt@nbm.org
Will accept inquiries about:
Parking garages
History of housing & home life
Exhibitions
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House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage |
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House & Home |
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Green Schools |
Articles
Green Garages: Oxymoron or Objective?
March 17, 2010
Sarah Leavitt, the curator of House of Cars, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator of the recent exhibition Green Community, which surveyed outstanding examples of sustainable urban design, planning, and infrastructure, assess the past and present roles of parking garages in cities and their potential to contribute to more sustainable urbanism in the future.
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Inside the Lines: Parking and Social Stratification
January 22, 2010
In this essay, Sarah Leavitt looks at the history of segregation in parking, focusing on racial segregation in the mid 20th century.
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Education
Brown University, MA, Museum Studies, 1994; PhD, American Civilization, 1999
Wesleyan University, BA, American Studies, 1992
Research Interests
Parking garages
History of housing and home decoration in 19th & 20th century America
Online communities
Selected Publications
"Who's Your Daddy: Fatherhood on Veronica Mars," (with Lewis A. Leavitt) in Veronica Mars Collection, Rhonda V. Wilcox and Sue Turnbull, eds., (Forthcoming 2010 from McFarland & Company, Inc.).
"A Private Little Revolution: The Home Pregnancy Test Kit in American Culture," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80:2 (Summer 2006): 317-345.
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
"It Was Always a Good Thing: Historical Precedents for Martha Stewart," American Studies 42:2 (Summer 2001): 125-131.
Professional Background
Adjunct Assistant Professor (2007), American University, Washington, DC
Associate Historian (2002-2006), Office of NIH History & Stetten Museum, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Historian II (2000-2002), History Associates Incorporated, Rockville, Maryland
Manager of Historical Resources (1998-1999), Women of the West Museum, Boulder, Colorado
