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Franz, Kathleen

Chair and Curator

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Background And Education

education and training

• Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University , American Civilization 1990 - 1999
• B.A. in American Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio , American Studies 1986 - 1990

awards and honors

• Secretary's Research Prize, 2020
• Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, conferred by Smithsonian Latino Center, 2017
• Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology, conferred by Society for the History of Technology, 2002
• Goldman Sachs Senior Fellowship , conferred by Goldman Sachs , 2011 - 2012

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Franz, Kathleen, Bercaw, Nancy, Cohen, Kenneth, Loza, Mireya, and Vong, Sam. 2021. "Girlhood (It's complicated): An Exhibition Exploring the Politics of Girlhood." The Public Historian 43 (1):138-163. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.1.138 2021
  • Franz, Kathleen, Smith, Paul Chaat, Ruffins, Fath Davis, Meyers, Cynthia B., and O'Barr, William M. 2020. "Virtual Colloquium: Smithsonian Curators Reflect on Documenting the Representations of Race/Ethnicity/Diversity in Advertising." Advertising & Society Quarterly 21 (4):https://doi.org/10.1353/asr.2020.0025 2020
  • Fleckner, John A. and Franz, Kathleen. 2018. "Advertising in the Archives: National Museum of American History at The Smithsonian Institution." Advertising & Society Quarterly 19 (2):https://doi.org/10.1353/asr.2018.0021 2018
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2018. "History Unbounded: A Relaunch of the Public History Review Section." Journal of American History 105 (1):121-125. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jay010 2018
  • Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor.  Technology and Culture.  57:1027-1028. 2016

• book

  • Allison, David, Davis, Nancy, Franz, Kathleen, and Liebhold, Peter. 2015. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America. Smithsonian Books. 2015
  • Franz, Kathleen and Smulyan, Susan. 2011. Major problems in American popular culture. Wadsworth Cengage. 2011
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2011. Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011

• chapter

  • Franz, Kathleen. 2007. "Automobiles and Automobility." in Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life, edited by Wajda, Shirley and Sheumaker, Helen., 53-56. ABC-CLIO. 2007

• exhibit

  • Franz, Kathleen., curator(s). 2019. "All Work, No Pay: Women's Invisible Labor." . 2019

• review

  • Franz, Kathleen. 2018. [Book review] "Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars." Technology and Culture. 981-983. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0104 2018
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2017. [Book review] "Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past, by David N. Lucsko." The American Historical Review. 549-550. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.549 2017
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2016. [Book review] "Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor." Technology and Culture. 1027-1028. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2016.0133 2016
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2015. [Book review] "John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales. Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino." The American Historical Review. 642-643. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.2.642 2015
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2013. [Book review] "User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers, by Joseph J. Corn." Technology and Culture. 434-435. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2013.0054 2013
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2011. [Book review] "SAS Shoe Factory and General Store. San Antonio, Texas. Terry Armstrong and Lew Hayden, Founders and Owners." The Public Historian. 91-95. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2011.33.1.91 2011
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2010. [Book review] "Architectural Heritage Center, Bosco-Milligan Foundation, Portland, Oregon. Cathy Galbraith, Executive Director, BMF; and Joanne Carlson, Interim Executive Director, AHC." The Public Historian. 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2010.32.4.120 2010
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2010. [Book review] "Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America, by Kevin Borg." Journal of Social History. 762-764. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0297 2010
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2010. [Book review] "Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists, by Georgine Clarsen." Australian Feminist Studies. 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164640903511804 2010
  • Franz, Kathleen. 2008. [Book review] "Motoring: The Highway Experience in America, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle." Technology and Culture. 234-235. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0223 2008

Other

Location

• National Museum of American History  Department