Samuel J. Redman

Professor Samuel J. Redman studies U.S. social, cultural, and intellectual history. He received his B.A. in anthropology and history from the University of Minnesota, Morris, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history at the University of California, Berkeley.

An expert on the history of museums, Redman is the author of three books. His first book,  Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums was published by Harvard University Press in 2016. Bone Rooms was selected as a Choice Top-25 Outstanding Academic Title, Nature Top-20 book of 2016, and Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016. His second book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard University Press 2021), explores salvage anthropology's fraught history and legacy. A third book is titled, The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience (NYU Press 2022). The Museum traces how cultural institutions responded to episodes of crisis over the past century in the United States.

He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.