Stephens, Carlene
Curator
Stephens, Carlene
Curator
Carlene Stephens is a curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). Her responsibilities include care of the museum’s historical collections of clocks and watches, locks, automatons and robots, and objects relating to recorded sound. Her research interests include the history of time in the United States.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Muhlenberg College
- M.A., University of Delaware
Research And Grants
Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Stephens, Carlene E. 2024. "“The Great Historical Clock of America”: an object biography." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2024.2298639. 2024
- Stephens, Carlene E. 2023. "From Talking Machines to Music Machines: The Early Years of Recorded Sound and Playback in Pictures and Audio." The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 22, (4) 486–511. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781423000233. 2023
- Stephens, Carlene E. 2023. "“Speculative Imaginations”: Listening to 1889, Then and Now." The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 22, (4) 452–474. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781423000245. 2023
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Book
- Johnston, Andrew K., Connor, Roger, Stephens, Carlene E., and Ceruzzi, Paul E. 2015. Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2015
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Chapter
- Stephens, Carlene. 2012. "Time in Place: Cold War Clocks and the American West." In Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West. Jannsen, Volker, editor. 321–346. Pasadena, California: University of California Press. 2012
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Review
- Stephens, Carlene E. 2010. [Book review] "Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady." Technology and Culture, 51, (1), 248–249. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0401. 2010
Presentations
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Exhibit
- Wallace, Harold D., Jr. and Stephens, Carlene (Curators). 2018. "America's Listening." Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2018-10-01.
Contact
Location
- National Museum of American History Department
