Category: News & Publications

Kudos to… John Low (MSP05) who recently retired as a Professor Emeritus from The Ohio State University and has returned to his tribal community, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We wish John all the best in his retirement!

The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in honor of Professor Emeritus of Spanish Charles F. Fraker. Originally a venue for graduate students of Hispanic Studies...

October 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) October 9 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm Online via Zoom Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as...

Kudos to…. Henrike Florusbosch (MSP03) has just been named as the new chief administrator at the UM Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. After teaching anthropology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Henrike returned to U-M to manage the African Studies Center within the International Institute,...

Kudos to… Eric Lehrer (MSP04), sociocultural anthropologist,  curator, and Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, has been selected as one of the University of Michigan’s 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellows.  Erica’s fields of research are memory/heritage/museums, Jewish-Polish heritage, and decolonial museology in East...

Thursday, October 9, 2025 5:30-7:30 PM Museum of Natural History ScentStories: Exploring the Plant World Through AI & Aroma Farrand Memorial Lecture 2025   From the field to the future, researchers are finding new ways to understand the world around us through scent.  Join...