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Apply for MSP!

The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for admission starting in Fall 2019.  This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Sarah Conrad Gothie (MSP09) has published her first book, Damsons: An Ancient Fruit in the Modern Kitchen (Prospect Books, August 2018), a culinary and cultivation history of the damson plum that includes a collection of 60+ historic and new recipes. She teaches...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Ricardo Punzalan (MSP08), Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, has been appointed co-director of the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture graduate certificate program at Maryland.

Alumni kudos!

  Kudos to…  Marc Levitt (MSP08), an archivist at the National Naval Aviation Museum, has initiated the first Visitor Studies Program at the museum, as well as its first Exhibition Development Seminar. In August 2018 he spoke at the Society of American Archivists (SAA)...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Monica Patterson (MSP07) recently began a new position as Director of the Curatorial Studies Program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she is also an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. This September she presented a paper entitled “Not...