Anne E. Krulikowski

Anne E. Krulikowski
  • Professor of History
  • Department: History
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: AKrulikowski@wcupa.edu

Education

  • B.A., English/American Literature, Immaculata College
  • M.A., English/American Literature, Villanova University
  • M.A., American History, Villanova University
  • Ph.D., American History, University of Delaware

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.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2255

List of Publications

  • “Brinton’s Celebrated Green Stone in Chicago,” Invited essay for Vernacular Architectural Forum, Conference & Tour Book, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2015. (Spring 2015]. “The Shop Around the Corner: Change, Continuity, and the Corner Grocery Store,” in Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives, Rowman Littlefield. Deborah C. Andrews, Editor. November 2014. “’A Working Man’s Paradise’: The Evolution of a Unplanned Suburban Landscape.” Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter 2008): 243-85. “Farms Don’t Pay’: The Transformation of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region Landscape, 1880-1914,” Pennsylvania History, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Spring 2005): 194-227. “Voices from the Meadows,” Magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Summer 2004): 3-9. “’A Working Man’s Paradise’: The Evolution of a Unplanned Suburban Landscape.” Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter 2008): 243-85. Included in: Vernacular America (e-anthology, ed. By Barbara Burlison Mooney (University of Chicago Press, 2014).