SALON EL ZAGUAN Reflections Across an Historic Trail
/SALON EL ZAGUAN
Reflections Across an Historic Trail
Dr. Frances Levine,
President and CEO, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo
On the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail’s first traders entrance into Santa Fe, Historic Santa Fe Foundation hosts a lecture by Dr. Frances Levine entitled Reflections Across an Historic Trail. The talk was presented for Friday, December 3, 2021.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Frances Levine became the president and CEO of the Missouri Historical Society (MHS) and the Missouri History Museum in the spring of 2014. Under her leadership, in 2017 MHS received the first ever award for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion given by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Two years later Dr. Levine led the successful reaccreditation of the Missouri Historical Society by AAM, as well as the successful integration of the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum into the institutional organization of the Missouri Historical Society. Also in 2019 she was named one of the most influential women in business by the St. Louis Business Journal, and in 2018 she received a National Urban League Salute to Women in Leadership Award. In 2021 she received the Norman A. Stack Community Relations Award from the Jewish Community Relations Council in St. Louis.
MHS is a leading partner with dozens of institutions throughout the region, including colleges and universities; media outlets; and local theatre, music, and arts organizations. Dr. Levine serves on task forces and regional commissions that align resources and staff collaborations among many regional arts and cultural organizations.
A native of Connecticut, Dr. Levine received her BA in anthropology from the University of Colorado Boulder and her MA and PhD in anthropology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In 2009 she attended the prestigious Getty Museum Leadership Institute. She is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, the American Society for Ethnohistory, and the Santa Fe Trail Association. She has served as an evaluator for the AAM accreditation review process for museums throughout the United States and Mexico.
Dr. Levine has been an author, co-editor, and contributor to several award-winning books, including Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries (1999, UNM Press), Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (2008 MNM Press, with MaryAnne Redding and Krista Elrick), Telling New Mexico: A New History (2009 MNM Press, with Marta Weigle and Louise Stiver), as well as a chapter in All Trails Lead to Santa Fe (2010 with Gerald Gonzalez, Sunstone Press), Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives (edited with Ron Wetherington, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2014), and Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2016), which won a Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library Association. Dr. Levine has just completed a manuscript for the University of Kansas Press entitled Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail. It will be published in 2022.