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Apply to join MSP!

The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for admission starting in Fall 2020.  This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides...

Alumni kudos

Kudos to…  Christopher Berk (MSP07) was recently hired as a Lecturer following four years as a visiting faculty member in Auburn University’s Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work. This past summer, Chris was a Faculty Fellow as part of the Smithsonian’s Summer Institute...

Alumni kudos!

Roxana Aras (MSP16) completed an internship at the Sursock Museum in Lebanon which allowed her to do research work for one of their main exhibitions, “Baalbek, Archives of an Eternity.”

African Art After Independence, 1957-1977

MSP founding director and current Steering Committee member, Professor Ray Silverman writes on the History of Art Department’s initiatives involving the study and research of African Art in the 2019-2020 academic year.  He will be assisted in this project by Postdoctoral Research Fellow and...