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J. Ritchie Garrison

J. Ritchie Garrison

Ritchie Garrison teaches courses in museum studies, material culture, decorative arts, and US history. He has authored Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860, American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (coedited with Ann Smart Martin), and After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820, (coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward). He has just completed a book manuscript, Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England. Other research projects include: a study of outbuilding patterns the early Republic, research on the early warehouses and commercial structures in the early port cities of the United States, the development of center tables in 19th century America, and an edited edition of two Civil War diaries kept by officers in the Massachusetts 54th and 55th Colored Regiments.