Author: Museum Studies Program

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Anna Topolska (MSP11)   This past summer Anna published a new article in Visual Studies: The Public Process and Execution of Arthur Greiser in Poznań: Visual Rhetoric of Documentary Photography and Local Memory, in: “Res Rhetorica”, 6 (4) 2019.  Also, she recently translated (from Polish...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Andrew Gurstelle  (MSP09) celebrated a five-year milestone a few months ago as the director of the Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. During this time, he has used what he learned from MSP to grow the university’s student engagement program from...

MSP accepting applications for Fall 2021

The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2021 cohort.  This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides countless...

Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America’s Underwater Treasures: A Survey of Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve

Preserved by the cold freshwater on which they once served, more than 200 shipwrecks are believed to rest in Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The sheer number of shipwrecks is impressive. However, it is their excellent state of preservation and what they...