Are you interested in museums, collections, or heritage sites? If so, consider applying for the graduate certificate in museum studies for Fall 2019! Details about applying can be found here.

“Humanities scholars are interested in how people organized information in the past because this tells us about their habits of mind—their intellectual world. When we put facts or things in order, we give them meaning and priority. We say: We care about this because...

Kudos to…   Kristine Ronan (MSP09) published a research article last winter on collections research that she had done at Monticello, “ ‘Kicked About’: Native Culture at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.”  The full article can be read here.

James Munene (PhD Anthropology and MSP student) will discuss his work at the Ethnografiska Museet (Museum of Ethnography) in Stockholm, home to over 900 collections of African objects.  This museum’s identity in a changing world and its representation of these objects will be explored.  

Presentation by Ricardo L. Punzalan, MSP alumni Ethnographic archives hold records that document the resources, history, and culture of Indigenous communities. Often generated in the context of anthropological fieldwork, these materials come in diverse formats (e.g., manuscripts, sound recordings, moving images, and photographs). In...