Research Interests
material culturehistoric preservationoral history
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No
Volunteer Research Positions Available: No
Biography
Dr. Krulikowski earned her Ph.D in American History from the University of Delaware, with a focus in material culture and historic preservation. She also has M.A.'s in American History and British & American literature from Villanova University. She worked for five years at Rockwood Museum, a Victorian house in Wilmington, Delaware, where her responsibilities included overseeing house and school tours and developing public programs and special tours for children and adults. She has served on the Board of the Friends of Rockwood and contributed to several re-interpretive projects of kitchen spaces, and domestic technology and labor.
Dr. Krulikowski was Visiting Professor of Twentieth-Century America at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and has taught upper level and graduate classes at several local universities, most frequently at the University of Delaware, where she lectured in and contributed to the planning of the introductory colloquium for the Material Culture Studies Minor.
Prof. Krulikowski's dissertation focused on ethnically and racially mixed working class neighborhoods in Southwest Philadelphia and the Eastwick Redevelopment Project in that vicinity. She has given numerous conference and public talks and published articles on Eastwick, oral history, grocery stores and urban food distribution, urban real estate, Building and Loan Associations, and housing.
