ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When did many German Jewish families begin to move into the American Southwest?
Dr. Frances Levine was born in Connecticut and received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She began her career in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as an archaeologist for the National Park Service followed by three years at the Bureau of Land Management in Santa Fe. She served as Division Head for Arts and Sciences at Santa Fe Community College until 2002, and then as Director of the Palace of the Governors/ New Mexico History Museum until she moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 2014. Dr. Levine was the President and CEO of the Missouri Historical Society and Missouri History Museum from 2014 until 2022 and then interim director for the opening year of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, from 2022 to 2023.
Dr. Levine is the author, co-editor or contributor to several award-winning books. Her 2016 book, Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth Century New Mexican Drama, won a Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library Association. This week she is speaking with us about her latest book, Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail, which won the New Mexico Book award in History.
