News & Publications

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to….  Monica Patterson (MSP07), Assistant Director, Curatorial Studies, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, and Associate Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario was interviewed by Sarah Gensburger for  the open source journal In Situ, Au regard des...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Erica Lehrer (MSP04), Professor in the Departments of History and Sociology-Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, co-edited the recently published book, My Museum: A Museum About Me: Curatorial Dreams for the Kraków Ethnographic Museum.  Through her work with the international research project,...

Virtual Open House – Feb 2

February 2, 2024 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2024 cohort.  This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities,...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to….  Craig Harvey (MSP14), following a postdoc in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario, has recently accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Roman Archaeology at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Holiday greetings and annual update

Dear MSP colleagues, students, and friends, You are receiving this message at a time when our collective attention is focused on the atrocities of ongoing wars and growing political divisions at home and abroad. During the Museum Studies Proseminar this fall, students grappled with...

Alumni kudos!

  Kudos to….  Alison Rittershaus (MSP13) has been working for over a year as the Lynch Postdoctoral Associate in Curricular Engagement at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University.  In her position, Alison coordinates and teaches classes from Cornell and other regional colleges...