Kudos to… Helen Dixon (MSP07) and four of her anthropology colleagues were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant that runs through May 2024. The project is titled “Cemeteries as More than Final Resting Places: How the History of Exclusion and Racism in...
How do museums engage with local communities? This panel offers first-hand experience with different models of museum-based community practice. With its exhibit “Frankfurt Jetzt” (Frankfurt Now) & Stadtlabor (City Laboratory), Frankfurt’s historical museum has turned to the city’s residents as experts and invited them to participate...
Kudos to… After a period of time at Penn State College of Liberal Arts as an Assistant Professor of French and African Studies, Abigail Celis (MSP11) moved to Canada to accept a position as Assistant Professor in decolonial Art History and Museum Studies at...
For Summer 2022, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum will be offering two fellowships for undergraduate or graduate students in American Studies, U.S. History, Museum Studies, Education, the Arts, Humanities, or other related fields. The program, now in its 38th year, runs nine weeks in...
Museums and their Communities: Curatorial Practices in Germany and the US Panelists: Angela Jannelli, Historical Museum of Frankfurt Adam Levine, Toledo Museum of Art Samir Meghelli, Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Community Museum How do museums engage with local communities? This panel offers first-hand experience with different models of...
Kudos to… Caitlin Clerkin (MSP14) had an article published in the American Journal of Archaeology. Co-authored with former MSP Associate Director, Brad Taylor, “Online Encounters with Museum Antiquities” explores museums’ online initiatives for ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern collections.
