Margaret Lindauer
Associate Professor & Museum Studies Coordinator
malindauer@vcu.edu
Margaret Lindauer holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies and an M.A. in Art History from Arizona State University, where she also was the Curator of Exhibitions at the Museum of Anthropology. In 2004 she was awarded a Fellowship from the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies for research focusing on social, cultural, and curatorial implications of the ways in which museums historically have been characterized as educational institutions. In addition to working in art and anthropology museums, Dr. Lindauer has developed professional workshops, worked as an independent museum consultant, and delivered lectures and participated in colloquia at national and international venues, including Canada, Mexico, England, and the Czech Republic.
Dr. Lindauer teaches a suite of museum studies courses, offering students an overview of museum history, theory, and practice: “In designing courses, my aim is to prepare students not only to enter the museum profession but also to shape its future. Student projects and assignments accordingly foster critical, analytical, pragmatic, and creative skills relevant to the museum field.”
Selected Publications:
Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo, Wesleyan University Press, 1999.
“What the Water Has Given Me: Frida Kahlo’s Postcolonial Map of Mexico.” In Museum Materialities, edited by Sandra Dudley. Under contract with Routledge Press, expected 2012.
“The Mayrau Mining Museum: Preserving the Past as a Liminal Space in a Liminal Time.” In The Global Memoryscape, edited by Mitch Reyes and Kendall Phillips. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming 2011.
“Making Choices, Weighing Consequences: The Politics of Transportation and the Limits of ‘Free-Choice” Learning in America on the Move.” In Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums edited by Fiona Cameron and Lynda Kelley. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2010.
“Curiosity Cabinets.” In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2010.
“It Happened Again, But As Something Else.” In Impermanence: Cultures In/Out of Time, edited by Judith Schachter and Stephen Brockmann. Pittsburgh, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
“Critical Museum Pedagogy: A Conceptual First Step.” In Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, edited by Simon J. Knell, Sheila Watson, and Suzanne MacLeod. London: Routledge, 2007.
“Book Review: Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibitions by Suzanne MacLeod; Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks by Louise J. Ravelli, Curator 50.3 (2007), 362-368.
“The Critical Museum Visitor.” In New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction, edited by Janet Marstine. New York: Blackwell Press, 2006.
“Looking at Museum Education Through the Lens of Curriculum Theory,” Introductory remarks for a special issue of the Journal of Museum Education 31/2 (Summer 2006), 79-80.
“Alyssa Salomon: Believing is Seeing,” (exhibition catalogue), Richmond, VA: 1708 Gallery, 2006.
“What to Ask and How to Answer: A Comparative Analysis of Methodologies and Philosophies of Summative Exhibit Evaluation. Museum and Society 3.3 (2005), 137-152.
“From Salad Bars to Vivid Stories: Four Game Plans for Developing ‘Educationally Successful’ Exhibitions,” Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship 20 (March 2005), 41-55.
“Miguel Covarrubias: Art, Culture, and National Identity” in Miguel Covarrubias: Caricaturista, (exhibition catalogue) Austin: Humanities Texas, 2005, 7-11.
Undergraduate Courses:
Museums in the 21st Century
Graduate Courses:
Museums & Communities
The Museum as Educational Institution
Issues in Museum Collections Planning
Exhibition Development & Analysis
