Spencer Crew
American professor, museum director, curator and writer
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Spencer Crew (born 1949)[1] is an American professor, museum director, curator and writer.
Spencer Crew | |
|---|---|
| Director of the Museum of African-American History | |
Interim | |
| Assumed office 2019 – 2020 | |
| Member of the United States Postal Service's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
Education
Crew received a PhD degree from Rutgers University in 1979.[2] In 2003, he was named to the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni.[3]
Career
Crew's career in museums began in 1981 when he was hired to work as a historian at the National Museum of American History (NMAH).[4] In 1986, he curated his first exhibition at the museum, Field to Factory: African-American Migration, 1915–1940.[2] He became the first African-American director of the NMAH in 1994.[2]
In 2001, he became the director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.[5]
In 2019, Crew was appointed the interim director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.[6]
Crew is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of U.S. history at George Mason University.[3][7]