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Eric W. Jentsch

Team Leader, Entertainment and Sports and Curator

Division of Cultural and Community Life

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

Satchel Paige: Pitching through history October 23, 2018

For Roswell Day, a celebration of aliens at the lunch table June 29, 2017

Jack Johnson: The first African American world heavyweight boxing champion February 27, 2017

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.