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Go Barbie or Go Home: An Interview with Sarah Wasserman

August 12, 2023
by Juliana Jones-Beaton

Earlier this month, UDaily’s Diane Stopyra spoke with Sarah Wasserman, director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies and associate professor of English, on Barbie’s immense theater… Read More

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Professor Jocelyn Alcántara-Garcia to Give Talk on Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts

May 5, 2023
by Meghan Angelos

On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Professor Jocelyn Alcántara-Garcia will discuss her research on Spanish illuminated manuscripts in her talk, “How Hidalgos Flaunted Their Status: Materials Symbolism in 15th- to 18th-century… Read More

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DELPHI ’20 & Thing Tank ’21–’22 Fellow Gabriella Johnson wins Rome Prize

April 29, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Photograph of Gabriella Johnson and detail of Galatea's Realm, oil painting on canvas by Bernardo Cavallino, c. 1650

Gabriella Johnson (Art History) has won the Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome for… Read More

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CMCS Thing Tank 2023–24: Subaltern Matters

April 27, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Peruvian Salt Pans

The forum topic for 2023–2024, Subaltern Matters: Knowledge and Technologies from Below, considers the intersections of material culture studies and subaltern studies. Conventional scholarship has often presented globalization and capitalist… Read More

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Professor Margaret Stetz Authors New Book on Aubrey Beardsley

March 10, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Cover of Aubrey Beardsley: 150 Years Young in the center of a matching yellow rectangle

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, is the author of a new book, Aubrey Beardsley: 150 Years Young. The book, which was published by the University of… Read More

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Call for Applications: Thing Tank 2023–2024 – Subaltern Matters

March 6, 2023
by Meghan Angelos
Peruvian Salt Pans

The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) invites applications from UD faculty and graduate students for the 2023–2024 Thing Tank research forum, Subaltern Matters: Knowledges and Technologies from Below. Thing… Read More

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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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