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Gates Moresi, Michele

Fellowship Advisor

National Museum of African American History & Culture staff

Positions

• Supervisory Museum Curator of Collections, National Museum of African American History & Culture

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Background And Education

education and training

• Ph.D. in American Civilization, George Washington University , American Studies, Dissertation title, “Exhibiting Race, Creating Nation: Representations of Black History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1976.” 2003
• M.Phil., George Washington University 1997
• B.A. in History, Boston University 1989

Research And Grants

investigator on

• Assessment of Historical Artifacts in the Rosa Parks Collection  awarded by Library of Congress
• Save America's Treasures: Jim Crow Railroad Car Conservation and Restoration Project  awarded by National Park Service

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Gates Moresi, Michele and Williams, Doretha K. 2019. "A Lifetime Lifting Black Lives." in Smithsonian American Women: remarkable objects and stories of strength, ingenuity, and vision from the National Collection, edited by Pope, Victoria and Schrum, Christine., 82-83. Smithsonian Books. 2019
  • Moresi, Michèle Gates. 2019. "Exhibiting the Negro: Art and Anthropology in the National Museum, 1929–33." American Art 33 (2):17-23. https://doi.org/10.1086/705622 2019
  • Gates Moresi, Michele. 2019. "Symbols of Sisterhood." in Smithsonian American Women: remarkable objects and stories of strength, ingenuity, and vision from the National Collection, edited by Pope, Victoria and Schrum, Christine., 223. Smithsonian Books. 2019
  • Gates Moresi, Michele and Coyle, Laura . 2019. "The Social Lives of Photographs." in Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, edited by Coyle, Laura and Gates Moresi, Michele., 10-15. Giles and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 2019
  • Moresi, Michèle Gates. 2016. "Empowering Ourselves." in Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America, edited by Conwill, Kinshasha H., 164-172. Smithsonian Books. 2016
  • Moresi, Michèle Gates. 2016. "“They Are Determined to be Self-Taught”." in Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America, edited by Conwill, Kinshasha H., 92-94. Smithsonian Books. 2016

• chapter

  • Gates Moresi, Michele. 2021. "Exhibiting Ourselves: The Making of a Community Museum in a National Institution." In Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism. Meringolo, Denise D., editor. 427–453. Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press. 2021
  • Moresi, Michèle Gates. 2016. "Early Black Entrepreneurs." in Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America, edited by Conwill, Kinshasha H., 186-193. Smithsonian Books. 2016
  • Moresi, Michele Gates. 2013. "Remembering Slavery." in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, edited by Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., 346-347. Smithsonian Books. 2013

editor of

• book

  • Through the African American Lens 2015

Other

Location

• National Museum of African American History & Culture  Department