About Spencer R. Crew
Born 1949. Spencer R. Crew is an American historian.
Spencer Crew (born 1949) is an American professor, museum director, curator and writer.
Education Crew received a PhD degree from Rutgers University in 1979. In 2003, he was named to the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Career Crew's career in museums began in 1981 when he was hired to work as a historian at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). In 1986, he curated his first exhibition at the museum, Field to Factory: African-American Migration, 1915–1940.
In 2019, Crew was appointed the interim director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Crew is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of U.S. history at George Mason University.
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American professor, museum director, curator and writer
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