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Professor of History and American Studies, Amherst College
Office: 101 Morgan Hall
Telephone: (413) 542-8406
E-mail: masandweiss@amherst.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Yale University (1985)
Field(s) of interest: Photography, American West, Public History
Graduate Courses Offered:
Western American History
Research Interests and Professional Activities:
Professor Martha Sandweiss teaches classes in western American history, public history, and visual culture as well as a variety of introductory American Studies courses. She has a particular interest in how visual images can serve as historical documents and offers history department seminars that focus on the analysis of prints, photographs and other images. She received her doctorate in History from Yale University and came to Amherst College in 1989 after working for ten years as the Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Work. She is the author of Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace (1986), co-author of Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1989), editor of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (1991), co-editor of The Oxford History of the American West (1994), and a contributor to numerous volumes on the art and photography of the American West. Her most recent book is Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (2002), a study of how the new medium of photography helped create broad public perceptions about the West.
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