Author: Museum Studies Program

Sept 20 – “Take Your Pick” exhibition selection – UM Museum of Art

UMMA invites Museum Studies Program students to an exclusive meet and greet with collector Peter Cohen, whose photographs are the subject of UMMA’s upcoming interactive exhibition Take Your Pick.  Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection.   What belongs in a permanent...

FAST Lecture Sept 12 – IPCAA in the Field

September’s FAST Lecture is entitled “IPCAA in the Field,” where three current IPCAA PhD students and candidates give short presentations on their own research from the past summer. This research is either separate or in conjunction with their summer excavation fieldwork and representative of...

student kudos!

Kudos to…  Anna Minnebo, Anthropology major and museum studies minor student.  Anna was the recipient of this year’s Museum Studies Minor Award given by the Department of the History of Art.  Anna has worked in two campus museums, the Natural History Museum and the...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  John Low (MSP05), Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University at Newark, has just accepted an offer to serve as Director of the Newark Earthworks Center (NEC).  The NEC is an interdisciplinary academic center of The Ohio...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Tamara Shreiner (MSP06) is the new Assistant Dean for Curriculum Approval, Content Teacher Education and Assessment, and CSAT Director at Grand Valley State’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.