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Chief Curator, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Andrew Wulf is a PhD candidate in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His dissertation studies the genesis of exhibition culture in American foreign policy and addresses U.S. cultural exhibitions in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, from 1938 through 2003. He received his MA in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Southern California in 2005.
Andrew began his museum career at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2002, and has since worked as an exhibitions curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where he held a curatorial role on the blockbuster Einstein exhibition in 2004 and at USC's Fisher Museum of Art. For the last six years Andrew worked as Curator of Exhibitions for the USC Libraries’ Special Collections, where he produced over twenty cultural exhibitions that explore a wide range of human endeavor, including political subjects such as the Armenian Genocide, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the history of book burning. Most recently, in April of 2010, Andrew was named Chief Curator of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, where he is involved with the multi-million dollar renovation of the museum’s permanent galleries in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Reagan in February 2011.
In the last year, Andrew has given papers at various international conferences. Last summer, at USC's Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars symposium, "Cultural Diplomacy: Clash or Conversation?”, Andrew presented a paper that focused on the concept of American "degeneracy" in late 18th century Europe and how the United States used cultural exhibitions to counter jingoistic attitudes toward the young American republic. In December of last year Andrew gave a paper entitled “American Attempts at Cultural Diplomacy through International Exhibitions during the Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989” at the Culture and International History IV Conference through the Universität zu Köln.
As a CPD University Fellow, he promoted collaboration and dialogue between museum and public diplomacy practitioners while investigating how civic and educative programming, like exhibitions, can serve people's lives more dynamically through cultural diplomacy models.
Recent Publications by Andrew Wulf
June 16, 2010 -- Redemption For Our House of Deceit CPD Blog
January 2010 -- Cold War Confrontations: U.S. Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural Cold War, by Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan PD Magazine
January 2010 -- Moscow '59: The Sokolniki Summit Revisited CPD Perspectives
September 25, 2009 -- Pictures at an Exhibition CPD Blog
July 29, 2009 -- Summer of "Splitnik": Remembering the American National Exhibition in Moscow CPD Blog
June 25, 2009 -- From the Good Neighbor Policy to the Fundacion Amistad: A Useful Historical Reminder for Obama CPD Blog
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