Candace Greene is a cultural anthropologist with a deep commitment to making historical collections relevant to current scholarly and source community interests. In 2009 she founded the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology [SIMA] to train a new generation of students to use collections productively; she continues to serve as a teaching member of the SIMA board. She also sits on the advisory board of the Council on the Preservation of the Anthropological Record [COPAR].

My research focuses on Native North American art and material culture, especially Plains Indian drawings. I have worked with Native people across the Plains to understand historic materials from their communities and to make them more accessible to tribal members. I am particularly interested in exploring systems of representation, intellectual property, historical memory, and the ways that these intersect.

More broadly, I am interested in promoting the use of museum and archival collections in anthropological research. Throughout my career at the Smithsonian, I have worked on a variety of projects to promote access, preservation, and research use of the collections, ranging from physical care to intellectual access. The scope and potential of the Anthropology collections never fails to awe me.

Article

• Greene, Candace S. 2024. "Plains Indian German silver from Oklahoma: the Smithsonian’s Davis collection." Plains Anthropologist, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2024.2321631. 2024
• Marsh, Diana E., Bell, Joshua A., Greene, Candace S., and Turner, Hannah. 2021. "Bridging anthropology and its archives: an analysis from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives." Anthropology Today, 37, (2) 19–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12643. 2021
• Greene, Candace S. 2020. "The Hazen collection: A new source on Arikara material culture." Plains Anthropologist, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1786621. 2020
• Greene, Candace S. 2016. "Material Connections: The Smithsonian Effect in Anthropological Cataloguing." Museum Anthropology, 39, (2) 147–162. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12121. 2016
• Greene, Candace S. 2015. "The Use of Plant Fibers in Plains Indian Embroidery." American Indian Art Magazine, 40, (2) 58–71. 2015
• Greene, Candace S. 2015. "Verbal Meets Visual: Sitting Bull and the Representation of History." Ethnohistory, 62, (2) 217–240. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2854291. 2015
• Greene, Candace S. 2013. "Being Indian at Fort Marion: Revisiting Three Drawings." The American Indian Quarterly, 37, (4) 289–316. https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2013.0052. 2013
• Greene, Candace S. 2013. "Buffalo and Longhorn: A Medicine Complex Revealed." American Indian Art Magazine, 38, (4) 42–53. 2013
• Greene, Candace S. and Kisin, Eugenia. 2010. "A New Museum-Based Research Curriculum: Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology." Anthropology News, 51, (1) 25–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2010.51125.x. 2010
• Greene, Candace S., Richard, B., and Thompson, K. 2007. "Treaty Councils and Indian Delegations: The War Department Museum Collection." American Indian Art Magazine, 33, (1) 66–80. 2007

Book

• Greene, Candace S. 2009. One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2009
• Greene, Candace S. and Thornton, R. 2007. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007

Chapter

• Greene, Candace S. 2017. "Significance of the Ledger Drawings." In A Pictorial History of the Oglala Sioux. 50th Anniversary ed. Blish, Helen H. and Bull, Amos Bad Heart, editors. xxvii–xxxix. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 2017
• Greene, Candace S. 2015. "Museum Anthropology." In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0105. 2015
• Greene, Candace S. 2012. "The White Swan Muslin: Deeds of Honor." In Father Lindesmith's Collection: History into Art and Anthropology. Mack, Joanne M., editor. 54–64. South Bend, IN: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. 2012
• Greene, Candace S. 2009. "Sitting Bull als Künstler." In Sitting Bull und seine Welt. Feest, Christian F., editor. 60–64. Vienna, Austria: Kunst Historisches Museum. 2009

Dr. Greene holds an adjunct appointment with the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University and regularly teaches a graduate seminar in museum anthropology, in addition to mentoring interns and graduate fellows.