Faculty

Tracy Teslow
Assistant Professor
Fields: 20th Century United States History
(race and ethnicity), Public History, History of Science
(anthropology; human and life sciences)

Phone: 513-556-2557
Email: tracy.teslow@uc.edu
Office: 310D McMicken Hall

Tracy Teslow received her B.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and her M.A. in history and Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Cincinnati since 2002. Her teaching and research focuses on race and ethnicity in the United States, especially in the twentieth century. A particular interest is the study of race in biological and anthropological sciences and its relationship to broader social, cultural and political events in America. Her other specialty is Public History, the presentation of the past through popular venues such as museums, film, and heritage sites. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the history of racial science in anthropology, museums, and American culture, tentatively titled "Race, Culture, Anthropology: The Science and Art of Difference in Interwar America."

Selected Courses:
American History 1848-1929
American History Since 1929
Art, Race and Nation: Citizenship and Identity in the United States
Race and Science in the United States
Introduction to Public History
Museums & Collecting

Selected Publications:
“A Troubled Legacy: Making and Unmaking Race in the Museum,” Museums & Social Issues, 2007

“Representing the Art and Industry of Progress: Cincinnati’s Grand Exposition Posters,” Ohio Valley History, 2005.

“Reifying Race: science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History,” The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture, ed. Sharon Macdonald, Routledge, 1998.