Jack Larkin

Jack Larkin is the Museum Scholar and Chief Historian at Old Sturbridge Village, reporting directly to the President and responsible for major research and writing projects, the museum's overall interpretation of historical content through exhibits and programs, and its relationships with the scholarly community. He is also Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches "Explorations in History: New England in the Nineteenth Century." In the fall of 2005 he will teach the American Studies Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society, on "Childhoods Real and Imagined: New England 1790-1860." Between 1992 and 2003 he was Director of Research, Collections and Library, managing the museum's activities in these areas. Prior to that he was Chief Historian in the Research Department from 1982-1992 and Research Historian from 1976-82.

He is currently the project director of "Back to Our Roots: Interpreting New England Agriculture and Rural Life for a New Century" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.