Kudos to… Catalina Esguerra (MSP12) began (this past fall) as a Spanish Instructor at the Miller School of Albemarle, a private co-educational school near Charlottesville. She successfully defended her dissertation and graduated in December.
Kudos to MSP affiliated faculty and Steering Committee member, David Michener, who has been appointed as a Mentor Fellow by U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation! The 2020 cohort of Fellows and Mentor Fellows are University of Michigan-Ann Arbor faculty across eleven schools and colleges,...
Dr. Margaret Bruchac, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed museological categories that may have distanced objects from their origins. She will reveal how memories can...
Kudos to… John Kannenberg (MSP10) has several new publications. He has published the new Museum of Portable Sound Gallery Guide, 3rd Edition, the guidebook used by visitors to the museum. This guide has essentially become an introductory textbook on sound studies. He has also...
Kudos to… Jenny Kreiger (MSP11) has been running a collaborative initiative at the University of Oregon Libraries and the university’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The initiative is supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Jenny has served as project manager for...
The European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities has issued a call for papers for their upcoming conference – Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe. This international conference for heritage scholars and practitioners will be held at the University of...
