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...
In this session, Cody Thompson and Kendra Phelps will discuss their article, “Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies,” published in January 2021. With COVID-19 as an example of the failed merger of host-pathogen research...
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.
The Michigan History Center is hiring a one-year grant-funded historian position in Detroit to continue the work on the Ulysses S. Grant House and the Historical Marker program. The position’s main task is building community partnerships around how Detroit’s history, particularly Detroit’s Black and...
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...
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...
