Ella Sharp left an amazing legacy in 1912 when she willed her farm and land to the City of Jackson to create a park and museum. In 1965 it became the Ella Sharp Museum. Renovations from the Jackson Junior Welfare League converted Ella’s house...
Kudos to… Helen Dixon (MSP07) recently published an article titled “Making it “Count”: Translating your Teaching Innovations into Research Output.” The article appears in Ancient Jew Review and offers a guide for writing about teaching as applied research. This reflection explores strategies of reframing,...
Visual souvenirs from the eighteenth cohort of the Museum Studies graduate certificate program.
Kudos to… Kathryn Holilhan (MSP14) for winning a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Staging the Somatic: The Popular Hygiene Exhibition in Germany, 1882-1931.” The ProQuest award recognizes “exceptional work produced by doctoral students for the high caliber of their scholarship and the...
A Living Archives for a Living Memorial: Behind the Scenes at the Kennedy Center Archives June 30, 1:00 – 2:00 pm This webinar will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the process of establishing an institutional archives at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ahead...
Kudos to… Monica Patterson (MSP07) recently published an article about the recent controversy surrounding the decision to retire six Dr. Seuss books, and the connection to museums, archives, and curating.
