March 10 presentation – Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections – by Margaret M. Bruchac, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Bruchac will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed...
The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the 2020 CLIFF conference. CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter) Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not...
Kudos to… Ksenya Gurshtein (MSP06) started a new job as the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. This position allows Ksenya to dig deep into who and what museums...
Please note that the March 13 brown bag presentation, Collecting Oceana, has been cancelled.
Kudos to… Timothy Hart (MSP16) recently began a new position as a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Below is a resource for collections professionals about to continue to work and protect collections during unexpected museum closures. CSAAM-Steps-for-Collections-Professionals
Christiana Sinacola — “Conversations from the Herbarium”
April 18, 2024
