Profile profile for jentsche
Eric W. Jentsch
Team Leader, Entertainment and Sports and Curator
M.A. Museum Studies, George Washington University
B.A. English, B.A. History, St. Louis University
Research Specialties:
History of Entertainment, Popular Culture and Sports. .
Role in Museum:
Collect, Exhibit and Research materials related to American entertainment and sports. These include broadcast entertainment such as television and radio, film, comic books, and sports.
Projects:
Past Projects:
Curator Entertaining America (ongoing)
Project Director/ Curator Superheroes
Project Director/ Curator Batmobile Exhibition
Curator Hall of American Culture, including Yankee Stadium Ticket Booth
Curator Willie Mays installation - American Stories
- Curator, Pause/Play.
- Curator, 1939.
- Curator: Celluloid: The First Plastic
Awards, Honors, and Special Recognition:
Selected Speaker, People, Passion Purpose
Blog Posts
Empty stadiums resonate with history
July 23, 2020
Satchel Paige: Pitching through history
October 23, 2018
A few of our favorite objects from Oz
October 25, 2016
A curator's top NCAA picks among basketball history
March 21, 2016
Hair band history: Teasing hair and playing rock 'n' roll
December 7, 2012
Olympic Artifacts, Olympic Stories, part 2
July 30, 2012
Olympic Artifacts, Olympic Stories, part 1
July 27, 2012
Feb. 11 1964, the Beatles' first concert in the United States
February 10, 2012
Princeton v. Dartmouth: College football then and now
September 16, 2011
Publications
"The Pharmacy Collections"
with Diane L. Wendt. Caduceus. (Winter 1997, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp.33–42).
A brief history of the pharmacy collections at the Smithsonian Institution.
