Dr. Louis Bartholomew Casagrande, II

President of The Children's Museum

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anthropology
University of Minnesota, 1979
Teaching Assistantships 1971-1974

Master of Arts (M.A. ) in Latin American Studies
School of International Service, The American University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A. ) Major in Anthropology; Minor in Spanish Yale University
Ranking Scholar; Departmental Honors

Administrative Experience

President
The Children's Museum, Boston, MA
1994- present

Senior Vice President
Science Museum of Minnesota
1987-1994

Head, Department of Anthropology
Science Museum of Minnesota
1976-1987

Professional Experience/Adjunct Professorship

Curatorial Associate
The Children's Museum, Boston, MA
1994-present

Curator of Anthropology
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
1976-1994

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology and Department of Design, Housing and Apparel
The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1985-1994

Exhibit Experience (since 1982)

1994-Present
Leading a strategic planning effort that includes a new exhibit development plan for The Children's Museum.

1987-1994
Senior Vice President with overall administrative responsibilities for the development of permanent and traveling exhibits.

1985
Curator-in-charge, CUBA 1904, a traveling exhibit of historical photographs from the Matteson collection. Science Museum of Minnesota, premiered in Havana, Cuba.

1985
Curator-in-charge, AFTER THE BUFFALO WERE GONE: LOUIS W. HILL, SR., AND THE BLACKFEET AT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. A ten-month exhibition organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota and funded by the Northwest Area Foundation.

1984
Curator-in-charge, FLOWERS< SAINTS AND TOADS: THE TEXTILE ART OF THE CHIAPAS MAYA. A national, traveling exhibition organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota and funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

1983
Associate Director, WOLVES AND HUMANS, a national traveling exhibition organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

1982
Curator-in-charge, SIDE TRIPS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY of SUMNER W. MATTESON, a four-month exhibition organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota and funded by the Grotto Foundation, Briggs Foundation and Anonymous Donors.

1982
Curator-in-charge of installation, HOP KACHINA, a traveling exhibition from the California Academy of Sciences.

Fieldwork

1985-93
Mexico and Cuba. Research on the historic Matteson Mexican and Cuban photographs.

1981-93
Mexico. Continuing research on Chipas Maya textiles in the state of Chipas. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Grant No. 4018. For summer fieldwork in Chipas, Mexico.

1980
Guatemala. Research on contemporary Maya textiles.

1976-78
Mexico. Research on the Chipas Maya material culture; collection made for the Science Museum of Minnesota.

1974-75
Mexico. Doctoral research on rapid urbanization in the provincial city of Zacapu, state of Michoacan. National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant No. SOC74-22724.

Teaching Experience

1991
"Contemporary Cultures of Latin American." Macalester College.

1988-94
Graduate Program in Museology, University of Minnesota.

1977-94
"Museum Studies," taught annually through Macalester College and Hamline University.

1986
Faculty., "Anthropology in Mexico, "Winter Quarter in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Three courses taught for University of Minnesota.

Professional Societies and Positions Held

American Association of Museums (Board of Directors, 1991-95)
Maya Society of Minnesota (co-founder)
American Anthropological Association
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Council for Museum Anthropology
Minnesota Association of Museums

Consultations

Burke Museum, University of Washington.
Display Masters, Inc., for an exhibition on the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Grants Review Panels. National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Minnesota Humanities Council.
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Prentice Hall School Divisions--for a new World Geography text.
Reflective Leadership Program, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota.
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York
Winona County Historical Society, Winona, Minnesota.

Lectures/Presentations

• American Associations of Museums, Chicago.
• American Studies Program, Princeton University.
• College-in-the-Schools Program, University of Minnesota
• Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California.
• Foreign Policy Association: Twin Cities Chapter.
• Iowa Museums Association Annual Meeting.
• Kellogg Foundation (on contemporary Mexico).
• Latin American Studies Program, University of Minnesota.
• Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin.
• Maya Society of Minnesota, St. Paul.
• Midwest Museums Conference.
• Minnesota Archaeological Society.
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• "Presenting the Past" Conference, University of Minnesota.
• Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Western Museums Conference
  

Publications

• "A Story for Modern Times' (poem). Minnesota Monthly. August
• " Challenging Stereotypes of Mexican Immigrants, " (opinion). Minneapolis Star-Tribune. January 4.
• Eastman Johnson, " Encounters. Vol. 6. No. 6. Focus on Mexico. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co. (With Sylvia Johnson). High school Reference Book.
• "Iguana, Snakes, and Two-Humped Camels, " Encounters. Vol. 3 No. 2.
• "Inside Cuba," Encounters. Vol. 8. No. 6.
• "Louis W. Hill, Sr., and the Blackfeet at Glacier National Park, " in After the Buffalo Were Gone (exhibit Booklet) . Science Museum of Minnesota.
• "Making the Right Connections, " Encounters. Vol. 5, No. 8.
• "Name That Muse, " Minnesota Monthly,. August.
• "Notes on Tenejapa, " encounters. Vol. 4. No. 10.
• "Photographs as Social History, " (Review Essay) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. Vol. 7 pp. 277-281.
• "Side Trips: An Epilogue, " Encounters. Vol. 6. No. 6.
• "Side Trips" The Illustrated Adventures of Sumner W. Matteson,
• " Encounters. Vol. 5. No. 5. Side Trips: The Photography of Sumner W. Matteson, 1898-1908. (With P. Bourns) . Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota (distr. by the University of Washington Press).
• "Straight Tongue, " Encounters. Vol. 3. No. 3. Straight Tongue: Minnesota Indian Art from the Bishop Whipple Collections. (With M. Ringheim). Saint Paul; Science Museum of Minnesota.
• "The At and Meaning of Chipas, Ceremonial brocade," (With S. Baizerman and W.F. Morris, Jr. ) in Beyond Boundaries, Nora Fisher, ed. Santa Fe: Museum of Internationl Folk Art.
• "The Bishop Whipple Collection, " Encounters. Vol. 2. No. 6.
• "The Cultural Rights of the Dispossessed, " Encounters. Vol. 10. No. 5. pp. 6
• "The Five Nations of Mexico, " Focus,. Vol. 37, No. 1. (Spring) pp. 2-9
• "The Historic Tribes of the Upper Mississippi," (With OO.C. Shane) in Lifestyles of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, John Wozniak, ed. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America.
• "The Maya to Minnesota, " Encounters. Vol. 1,. No. 2.
• "The Textile Art of the Chipas Maya," in Aete Vivo: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mexican Folk Art. James R. Ramsey, ed. Memphis: Memphis State University.
• "To Stretch, Broaden, and Enliven, " Encounters. Vol. 1. No. 6. Zacapu:
• The Dynamics of Social Inequality in a Mexican Town. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Microfilms.