Category: News & Publications

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Anna Topolska (MSP11) who has published two recent essays: “Reflections on the Visual Truth and War Photography – A Historian’s Perspective” [Alex Grech (ed.), Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society. From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  KT Lowe (MSP11) was a contestant on Jeopardy this past spring.  Alas, there were no museum-related questions on the show.  When she is not competing on game shows, KT is the assistant librarian for instruction at Indiana University East, where in Spring...

Holiday greetings and annual update

Dear MSP colleagues, students, and friends, As the year comes to a close and we prepare for yet another holiday season in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, I am writing to you to share my continued excitement about Museum Studies at Michigan and...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Kathy Zarur (MSP05) is a San Francisco-based artist, curator, and educator now sharing her energies and talents as an Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College, a community college in San Bruno, California.

Data, Archives, and Information Seminar: Tonia Sutherland – starts Dec 9

Data, Archives, and Information Seminar Speaker: Tonia Sutherland, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa                       Title: On Chatbots, Tupac, and Black Mirror: Digital Resurrection in the 21st Century    Abstract: Our data doesn’t just disappear when we die. Particularly concerned with the ways Black people’s (and...

Study Days at UMMA – Dec 9-12

Bring your laptop, bring your books, bring your notes, and set up shop at one of the many tables or couches we’ll have stationed throughout the museum and our galleries. In addition to ample study space, throughout exam week you’ll find special self-care and...