Carole Rosenstein

Carole Rosenstein is Professor of Arts Management at George Mason University. She studies cultural policy. cultural democracy, cultural equity, and the social life of the arts and culture. She has led commissioned research for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Urban Institute. Dr. Rosenstein holds a PhD in cultural anthropology, and she employs qualitative approaches and interpretation as well as quantitative data and analysis in her work. Carole has in-depth, on-the-ground knowledge of arts centers all around the U.S., having led field studies in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Boston, Santa Fe, New Orleans, and coastal Maine. From 2000-2007, Carole worked on the cultural policy portfolio at the Urban Institute, where she was a research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. In 2007, Carole was Rockefeller Humanities Fellow in Cultural Policy at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, DC. She used that time to work on cultural redevelopment projects in post-Katrina New Orleans. She has been teaching since 2008.