News & Publications

Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor 

Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  Presentation by Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive work has been conducted for decades. Like other...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…. Henrike Florusbosch (MSP03) has just been named as the new chief administrator at the UM Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. After teaching anthropology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Henrike returned to U-M to manage the African Studies Center within the International Institute,...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Eric Lehrer (MSP04), sociocultural anthropologist,  curator, and Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, has been selected as one of the University of Michigan’s 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellows.  Erica’s fields of research are memory/heritage/museums, Jewish-Polish heritage, and decolonial museology in East...

Save the date! Oct 23

Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century? October 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium...