Gretchen Sorin

GRETCHEN SORIN is director and distinguished service professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program/ SUNY Oneonta. Sorin received a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and a PhD in American history from the University at Albany. She has worked with more than 250 museums over three decades as an exhibition curator and education, programming, interpretive planning, and strategic planning consultant. Her most recent book is Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (2020). She is also cowriter and senior historian with filmmaker Ric Burns on the documentary film Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility (2020).