Carole Rosenstein
Carole Rosenstein 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.
Biography
Carole Rosenstein 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 Fransisco, Boston, Seattle, Santa Fe, New Orleans, and coastal Maine.Carole teaches courses in Arts and Cultural Policy, Cultural Planning, Research in Arts Management, and the Arts in Society to Arts Management graduate students. She has been teaching since 2008.
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.
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. The Urban Institute is home to the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), which holds IRS Form 990 data for all nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
From 1990-1995, Carole took time away from the academy to travel and work as a campaigner for Greenpeace.
Education
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BA. Smith College, Northampton, MA. 1988
MA. University of Chicago, IL. 1990
PhD. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 2000
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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> cultural policy
> arts policy
> artist policy
> state/sub-national cultural policy
> city/local cultural policy
> public finance of arts and cultural organizations
> general operating support to arts and cultural organizations
> NCCS data
> data on arts, culture, and humanities organizations
> ethnic arts organizations
> community-based arts and cultural organizations
> folklife organizations
> nonprofit humanities organizations
> arts festivals
Websites
Books
Articles
Indian Market, A Tournament of Values
Published: Sep 01, 2014 by Signs and Society
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
Following Bourdieu, the process of commoditization has been understood as the most socially significant process that art undergoes. That understanding presupposes the power of economic value, the order of value that all others must resist or be overtaken by. This article analyzes Santa Fe Indian Market as a tournament of values, where various orders of value compete for legitimacy and authority and where an administrative order of value has great social significance.
The Distribution and Policy Implications of U.S. State Government General Operating Support to the Arts and Culture: Lessons from the Great Recession
Published: Sep 18, 2013 by Cultural Trends
Authors: Carole Rosenstein, Vanessa Riley, Natalia Rocha and Tyler Boenecke
The Great Recession brought renewed attention to the importance of general operating support (GOS) to sustaining nonprofit arts and culture organizations. After the Culture Wars of the 1990s, federal GOS disappeared and philanthropy turned away from providing such unrestricted funds. This article uses data from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) supplemented with new data on line items to map state-level GOS support and analyze the equity of its distribution.
The MFA in Arts Management
Published: May 14, 2013 by Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
This brief study asks whether the MFA can serve as the viable credential for academically trained Arts Administration/Management faculty. The analysis suggests that there is no consensus about which advanced degree best reflects academic expertise relevant to all components of the field and that standards remain too unclear for the MFA to serve as a viable credential across artistic disciplines.
Cultural Development and City Neighborhoods
Published: Mar 01, 2011 by City, Culture and Society
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
This article examines four defining characteristics of city cultural policy and traces the impacts of these characteristics on cultural development and the cultural life of neighborhoods, arguing that when city cultural agencies do not consciously and actively incorporate communities and their needs into cultural development, their policies and programs can in fact conflict with and threaten the cultural health of urban neighborhoods.
Live From Your Neighborhood: A Study of Outdoor Arts Festivals. Volume II: Case Studies.
Published: Nov 01, 2010 by National Endowment for the Arts
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
This is a report on the field-based case studies that made up a part of the first national study of arts festivals in the United States. The study was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts.
When is a Museum a Public Museum? Considerations from the Perspective of Public Finance
Published: Jun 23, 2010 by International Journal of Cultural Policy
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
Money has dimensions of significance that can only be understood by looking at the mechanisms through which it moves. In other words, money does not express strictly numerate relations. For example, the degree of directness through which government dollars are delivered to a museum tells us something important about the museum’s public status. Acknowledging this multivalence can be valuable for developing nuanced theory about the relationships between cultural economics and cultural policy.
Exhibiting Public Value: Museum Public Finance in the United States
Published: Dec 01, 2008 by Institute for Museum and Library Services
Authors: Carlos Manjarrez, Carole Rosenstein, Celeste Colgan and Erica Pastore
This is a report on the first nationwide study of museum public finance in the United States. The study was commissioned by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency of the U.S. government.
Nonprofit Cultural Heritage Organizations: Baseline Data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics
Published: Aug 07, 2007 by Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Authors: Carole Rosenstein and Amy Brimer
Reporting on a significant data cleaning and reorganization initiative, this article provides a first look at a set of nonprofit organizations and programs that have previously lacked definition as a coherent component of the nonprofit arts, culture, and humanities: nonprofit ethnic, cultural, and folk organizations.
Diversity and Participation in the Arts
Published: Oct 01, 2005 by The Urban Institute
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
This policy brief argues that the types of arts participation measured by the National Endowment for the Arts' Survey of Public Participation in the Arts systematically bias its results.
Conceiving Artistic Work in the Formation of Artist Policy: Thinking Beyond Disinterest and Autonomy
Published: Mar 01, 2004 by Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Authors: Carole Rosenstein
This article takes on the problem of conceiving artistic work by critiquing practical suggestions about how to enhance artists’ career development and longevity that are founded on the idea that truly artistic work must be protected from the market (i.e., must be disinterested) and must be ascribed to individual talents rather than collective endeavor (i.e., must be autonomous). Analysis of interview data shows that such ideas may lead to policies that actually create barriers for artists.