Museum Work
Dattel has served as an advisor, curator and scholar in the creation of museum exhibitions in New York and Mississippi on the subjects of American history, race, cotton and the blues.
Museum Advisory
New York Historical Society – Scholars Advisory Board member for Constitution Institute (2008)
New York Historical Society, Planning board member for November 2006 Slavery Exhibition Commerce and Conscience.
Former Advisory Board Member, The American Civil War Center at Tredegar Museum, Richmond, Virginia, Contributor to Civil War Exhibition, Summer, 2006
Board Memberships
Advisory Board Council, Macauley Honors Program, City University of New York
Member, Advisory Board, B.B. King Museum, Indianola, Mississippi
Former Advisory Board Member, Tredegar Museum
Founding Board Member, Dockery Farms Foundation, Dockery, MS – for the preservation of the birthplace of the Blues