Ruffins, Fath Davis

Fellowship Advisor

National Museum of American History staff

African American history and culture; racial construction and ethnic identity; museum studies, historic preservation, exhibition development public history.

education and training

Harvard University
B.A., Radcliffe College

awards and honors

G. Wesley Johnson Award, conferred by National Council on Public History, 2019

selected publications

article
- 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
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2018. "Building Homes for Black History: Museum Founders, Founding Directors, and Pioneers, 1915–95." The Public Historian 40 (3):13-43. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.3.13 2018
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2017. "Contesting the Nation, 1900–1965." in Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States, edited by Salazar-Porzio, Margaret, Troyano, Joan Fragaszy, and Safranek, Lauren., 137-164. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2017
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2015. "Student-Led Black material Culture 1968--A Curator's Thoughts." Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 2 (1):148-159. https://doi.org/10.15367/kf.v2i1.59 2015
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2008. "The Paradox of Preservation: Gullah Language, Culture and Imagery." in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, edited by Rosengarten, Dale, Rosengarten, Theodore, and Schildkrout, Enid., 216-231. Museum for African Art. 2008
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2007. "Money Makes a Difference: The Impact of Rising Prices on African American Collecting Since 1968." International Review of African American Art 21 (4):71-81. 2007
review
- Ruffins, Fath Davis. 2007. [Book review] "Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post Bellum Landscape." Visual Anthropology Review. 178-179. 2007

Ruffins, Fath Davis

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