Author: Museum Studies Program

Alumni kudos!

  Kudos to….  Katie Mikos (MSP21) has begun a fellowship at UMMA this fall through Rackham’s Public Engagement Fellowship where she works with both the University Learning and Programs and the Public Experience and Learning teams.  Katie was also selected to serve a 2-year...

Nov 30 – Museums at Noon presentation – Competing Interests: Examining Identity Politics in the Display of Ancient Egypt

  Based upon her internship with an exhibition highlighting the influence of ancient Egypt and Nubia at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquity in the Netherlands, MSP PhD student, Heidi Hilliker, will examine ways in which inclusion, identity, and ownership are deeply intertwined in...

Nov 15 – Museums in Practice series – Access and Museums: Making Meaning through Online and Digital Connections

  November 15 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Join us via Zoom for the Museum Studies Program’s third annual Virtual Panel Discussion considering access and accessibility concerns in museum practice. With museum, library, and cultural heritage panelists from the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN),...

Student kudos!

Kudos to…  Sony Prosper (MSP21) recently received the Society of American Archivists Theodore Calvin Pease award.  The award recognizes superior writing achievement by a student of archival studies, and entries are judged on innovation, scholarship, pertinence, and clarity of writing.