Arts Management

Carole Rosenstein is an assistant professor of Arts Management at George Mason University, Book Review Editor for the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society and an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on cultural policy, cultural democracy, diversity and equity, and the social life of the arts and culture.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Rosenstein has expertise in qualitative research, cross-cultural and field methods and interpretive analysis. She has studied: how ethnic and class identities are negotiated in museums, festivals and markets in Santa Fe; how culture influences the mission, roles and programs of ethnic arts organizations; the structure and effectiveness of the support system for U.S. artists; ways of promoting economic development through the folk and traditional arts; diversity and arts participation; post-Katrina cultural redevelopment in New Orleans; public funding of museums in the United States.

Dr. Rosenstein has published policy briefs on the nonprofit infrastructure for cultural heritage and on arts participation rates among ethnic and immigrant groups and has contributed to numerous Urban Institute research monographs on the arts and culture. Her work has been published in Ethnologies, Semiotica, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society and the International Journal of Cultural Policy [in press]. In 2008, she directed (with co-PI Carlos Manjarrez), “Exhibiting Public Value”, a study of museum public finance commissioned by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (available at www.imls.gov). Her most recent policy brief is “Cultural Development and City Neighborhoods” (available at www.urban.org).

Carole Rosenstein received a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in anthropology from Brandeis University. She was 2007 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

She teaches courses in Arts and Cultural Policy, Arts and Society, Research in Arts Management and Seminar in Arts Management (Foundations).

Her current work includes a study of outdoor art festivals commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Living Cultures Project, working with Tulane University and The University of New Orleans to rebuild neighborhood culture in New Orleans. She is writing “Cultural Policy and Cultural Practice: Government Regulation, Public Support and the Living Culture”, a book in progress.

Teaching:

MAM 599 Research in Arts Management

MAM 602 Seminar in Arts Management

MAM 603 Arts in Society

MAM 710 Arts Policy