David Philip Jaffee

David Jaffee died on January 20, 2017. Jaffee was a Hiatt and Peterson Fellow at the Society in the 1980s and ultimately became instrumental in the development of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at AAS. He was a longtime teacher at the City College of New York and the Bard Graduate Center, where he also directed the New Media Studies Program from 2007 to the time of his death. He is remembered as a devoted teacher, generous colleague, and committed mentor who shared his passion for his work in the classroom as well as through special workshops, seminars, and exhibitions. His works include People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860 (1999) and A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (2010). The David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture, focused on visual and material culture, was established in his memory.