Launched in 2010, the University of Michigan Working Papers in Museum Studies serve as an outlet for museum scholars and professionals and advanced students to report on ongoing research and present new theoretical arguments in a peer-reviewed on-line publication. These papers—which derive from public presentations on the University of Michigan campus, faculty research, and the doctoral project of University of Michigan Museum Studies students—provide an opportunity for MSP to disseminate our distinctive “critical practice” perspective to the larger museum and heritage community through presenting exciting and provocative new scholarship that integrates theory and practice in the study of museums.
- Number 12, Welcoming All Visitors: Museums, Accessibility, and Visitors with Disabilities
- Caroline Braden, University of Michigan
- Number 11 Psychological Flow and the Numinous Museum Experience
- Kiersten F. Latham, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
- Number 10, Sacred Trees of the Savè Hills Cultural Landscape
- Andrew W. Gurstelle, University of Michigan
- Number 9, Building Bodies in the Australian Periphery: The Enactment of Aboriginality in Tasmania
- Christopher Berk, University of Michigan
- Number 8, Materiality Matters: Experiencing the Displayed Object
- Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester
- Number 7, Multiculturalism and Museums in China
- Keun Young Kim, University of Michigan
- Number 6, Aligning Museum Building Projects with Institutional Goals
- Ipek Kaynar Rohloff, Mount Holyoke College
- Number 5, Wanting to Be Third on Your Block
- Elaine Heumann Gurian, Senior Museum Consultant
- Number 4, Civilizing the Guam Museum
- Christine DeLisle, University of Michigan
- Number 3, Museums, Histories and the Dilemmas of Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape
- Number 2, Virtual Experiments: Reflections on the Museum in the Virtual Realm
- Alice Mae Goff, University of California, Berkeley
Harold Skramstad, President Emeritus, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
- In Fall 2015, we launched a new series of working papers: Museum Studies Working Papers: Future Leaders, which features the work of talented U-M undergraduates who have undertaken substantive research on museum and heritage topics.
- Future Museum Leaders 1 Managing Michigan’s Underwater Heritage: The Past, Present, and Future of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Leah R. Burgin, University of Michigan
- Future Museum Leaders 2 Rediscovering Sephardic Catalonia: Heritage and the Museum of Jewish History in Girona
- James Nadel, University of Michigan
