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Associate Dean for the Humanities Wendy Bellion Co-Edits New Book on Material Culture

February 1, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Part of the Cover of the publication Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century

Professor Wendy Bellion, Associate Dean for the Humanities, together with University of Delaware Art History alumna Kristel Smentek, edited a book recently published by Bloomsbury, Material Cultures of the Global… Read More

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NBC Philadelphia Segment Features Professor Joelle Wickens and Former Students

January 20, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Image of students looking at a painting with new technology from NBC10

Earlier this month, Associate Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, Professor Joelle Wickens and some of her former students were featured in a segment on NBC… Read More

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CMCS-Affiliated Professors Receive Major National Science Foundation Award

December 15, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
Professor Kelly Cobb presenting in front of a screen at Thing Tank

Professors Kelly Cobb (Fashion & Apparel Studies) and Kedron Thomas (Anthropology) are part of a team that has received a three-year National Science Foundation grant of $736,893 for their Recycled… Read More

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Kenneth Cohen Co-Edits Entertainment Nation (NMAH, 2022)

November 1, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
cropped photo of the cover of Entertainment Nation

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has published Entertainment Nation: How Music, Television, Film, Sports, and Theater Shaped the United States, co-edited by Professor Kenneth Cohen and NMAH curator… Read More

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Professors Lu Ann De Cunzo and Catharine Dann Roeber Edit New Handbook of Material Culture Studies

October 28, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
cropped photo of the cover of The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies

This past June, Cambridge University Press published The Handbook of Material Culture Studies, edited by Professors Lu Ann De Cunzo (Anthropology) and Catharine Dann Rober (Winterthur Program in American Material… Read More

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Martin Brückner presents at 2022 AIC Varnished Wall Map Symposium

October 18, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
Photo of map segments on table

Conservation issues concerning nineteenth-century varnished wall maps present a complicated challenge for paper conservators. Oversized and materially complex compositions, wall maps can be found in virtually every archive and library… Read More

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Life Magazine Exhibition Opens at MFA Boston

October 9, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
Image of the entrance to "Life Magazine and the Power of Photography" at the MFA

A new exhibition on Life magazine is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition draws on unprecedented access to Life magazine’s picture and paper archives,… Read More

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Announcing the 2022–2023 Thing Tank Fellows

October 5, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
List of 2022–2023 Thing Tank Fellows

Thing Tank is an annual research forum for UD faculty and graduate students. Each year, CMCS appoints four Faculty Fellows and six to eight Graduate Fellows as part of a… Read More

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Items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection on view in new exhibition, “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young”

September 25, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
Beardsley Exhibition Featured Image

Items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which is part of the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, are now on view in a new exhibition, Aubrey Beardsley, 150… Read More

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CMCS Director Wendy Bellion named associate dean for the humanities

September 6, 2022
by Meghan Angelos
headshot of Professor Bellion

Wendy Bellion, a member of the UD faculty since 2004, has been appointed associate dean for the humanities. On a brutally hot afternoon in Newark, when news outlets were reporting… Read More

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