Marjorie Schwarzer

Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957) is an American museum educator and author of the acclaimed museum textbook Riches, Rivals and Radicals: A History of Museums in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield; third edition, 2020). She is a prolific writer on issues impacting museums, especially those in the United States but also in the United Arab Emirates and other developing nations. She has authored numerous reviews, articles and books about museums. From 1996 to 2011, she was professor and chair of Museum Studies at John F. Kennedy University, California and she taught at University of San Francisco from 2012 to 2020. The first edition of "Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of the Museum in America" was published in 2006 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Alliance of Museums. The book was the basis for an award-winning Public Television show of the same title. 
Personal background.
Born in Boston, Schwarzer spent her early years in Buffalo, New York. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis in 1978 with a degree in art history and French, Schwarzer earned her MBA at University of California, Berkeley and began her museum career. After a brief stint at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she served as Associate Director of Development at Boston Children's Museum snf Director of Education at Chicago Children's Museum before returning to Northern California in 1995 where she served as professor and chair of the museum studies department at John F. Kennedy University until she joined the University of San Francisco to help found a graduate museum studies program with a focus on social justice.
In 2003, she was awarded the Harry Morrison Award for Outstanding Teaching at JFKU. In 2008 she accepted the CAMMY award on behalf of JFKU from the California Association of Museums for leadership in the museum field, and in 2018, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Western Museums Association.
She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, the architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer.