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David Jaffee is Professor and Head of New Media Research at the Bard Graduate Center.  His recent book, A New Nation of Goods: Material Culture in Early America (2010), highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States--chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing--to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. He is now at work on a new project, New York as Cultural Capital, looking at the nineteenth-century domestic interior, the parlor in particular, filled up with furniture, displays of stereographs, plaster figure, and chromolithographs.

Trained as a cultural historian, another strong interest of Professor Jaffee has been pedagogy and the incorporation of new media.  He has published several essays on teaching with new media publications in the scholarship of teaching and learning on how students learn and faculty teach with material culture evidence.  He has directed two NEH projects to develop multimedia resources for the history classroom, He has led numerous new faculty development seminars and programs, including the NEH supported New Media Classroom, Learning to Look with the American Social History Program and Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching and Images at the American Antiquarian Society. 

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has designated this institute as part of its “We the People” initiative, designed to encourage and enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history, culture, and democratic principles.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.