title: David R. Brigham
Sheed and Ward
Edward P. Alexander
Center for Louisiana Studies
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Rowman &amp; Littlefield
Museum Anthropology Review
Ablex Publishing
UCL Institute of Archaeology
Wegener (company)
sentences: David R. Brigham is an American educator, art historian, and, as of 2010, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia.
 A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Brigham studied English and Accounting at the University of Connecticut before pursuing a master's degree in Museum Studies/American Civilization and a doctorate in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania.
 Brigham had served as Executive Director of the Allentown Museum of Art from 2002 to 2007 and the Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of American Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts from 1996 to 2002.
 He is the author of "Public Culture in the Early Republic: Charles Wilson Peale's Museum and Its Audience" (1995).
Sheed and Ward was a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward.
 The head office was moved to New York in 1933.
 The United States assets were acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group, which has since been subsumed into Bloomsbury Publishing.
Dr. Edward Porter Alexander (January 11, 1907 – July 31, 2003) was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and author.
 He served for nearly 30 years as vice-president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg (1946–1972) and founded the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware, which he directed for its first six years.
The Center for Louisiana Studies is the press of the University of Louisiana, with the mission to promote and facilitate scholarly research on any and all aspects of Louisiana studies.
 With over 100 titles currently in print, the Center is the largest publisher of exclusively Louisiana-related books in the world.
 It also serves as a research facility and archival repository.
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nation band governments of the Pacific Northwest.
 As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is a research and teaching museum, where UBC courses in art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, and museum studies are given.
 MOA houses 38,000 ethnographic objects, as well as 535,000 archaeological objects in its building alone.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.
 Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books.
 Rowman & Littlefield is the world's largest publisher in museum studies.
Museum Anthropology Review is a peer-reviewed gold open access academic journal focusing on research in material culture studies, museum-based scholarship, and the study of museums in society.
 In addition to anthropology, it covers the fields of folklore, art history, and museum studies.
 It was established in 2007 and is published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries as part of its IUScholarWorks program using Open Journal Systems.
 The journal is edited by Jason Baird Jackson.
Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held book publisher and academic journal publisher in New York City, New York, USA.
 It was previously located in Norwood, New Jersey, and also at one time in Westport and Stamford, Connecticut.
 Ablex publishes edited volumes, monographs, research journals, and textbooks, focused on communication, education, library science, psychology, and technology.
 In 1997, Ablex became an affiliate company of JAI Press, a subsidiary of Elsevier Science, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature.
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London (UCL), England which it joined in 1986.
 It is currently one of the largest centres for the study of archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in the world, with over 100 members of staff and 600 students housed in a 1950s building on the north side of Gordon Square in the Bloomsbury area of Central London.
Koninklijke Wegener NV was a Dutch publisher of newspapers.
 It was the largest publisher of daily regional newspapers, free local newspapers and special interest magazines in the Netherlands.
 It also sold internet products and graphical products.
 The company ceased to exist when it was acquired by Belgian media company De Persgroep in 2015.

Question: Question: The world's largest publisher in museum studies, which acquired Sheed and Ward in 2002, was founded in what year? 

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 Sheed and Ward was a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward.
 The head office was moved to New York in 1933.
 The United States assets were acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group, which has since been subsumed into Bloomsbury Publishing. 

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 Dr. Edward Porter Alexander (January 11, 1907 – July 31, 2003) was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and author.
 He served for nearly 30 years as vice-president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg (1946–1972) and founded the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware, which he directed for its first six years. 

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 The Center for Louisiana Studies is the press of the University of Louisiana, with the mission to promote and facilitate scholarly research on any and all aspects of Louisiana studies.
 With over 100 titles currently in print, the Center is the largest publisher of exclusively Louisiana-related books in the world.
 It also serves as a research facility and archival repository. 

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 The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nation band governments of the Pacific Northwest.
 As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is a research and teaching museum, where UBC courses in art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, and museum studies are given.
 MOA houses 38,000 ethnographic objects, as well as 535,000 archaeological objects in its building alone. 

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 Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.
 Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books.
 Rowman & Littlefield is the world's largest publisher in museum studies. 

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 Museum Anthropology Review is a peer-reviewed gold open access academic journal focusing on research in material culture studies, museum-based scholarship, and the study of museums in society.
 In addition to anthropology, it covers the fields of folklore, art history, and museum studies.
 It was established in 2007 and is published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries as part of its IUScholarWorks program using Open Journal Systems.
 The journal is edited by Jason Baird Jackson. 

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 Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held book publisher and academic journal publisher in New York City, New York, USA.
 It was previously located in Norwood, New Jersey, and also at one time in Westport and Stamford, Connecticut.
 Ablex publishes edited volumes, monographs, research journals, and textbooks, focused on communication, education, library science, psychology, and technology.
 In 1997, Ablex became an affiliate company of JAI Press, a subsidiary of Elsevier Science, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature. 

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 The UCL Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London (UCL), England which it joined in 1986.
 It is currently one of the largest centres for the study of archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in the world, with over 100 members of staff and 600 students housed in a 1950s building on the north side of Gordon Square in the Bloomsbury area of Central London. 

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Answer: 1949