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
Category: Announcements
Announcing the 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
CMCS Director Wendy Bellion named associate dean for the humanities
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
CMCS Thing Tank 2022–23: Material Futures
Material Futures, the forum topic for 2022-23, explores the relationship between material culture and imaginings of the future. Amid intensifying concerns about climate, disease, and inequality, the future holds our… Read More
Introducing the DELPHI 2022 fellows
The DELPHI 2022 starts its journey today! Over the next two weeks, the DELPHI fellows will learn how to engage with a wider range of the public through having dynamic… Read More
CMCS Virtual Book Launch Event – Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing (May 10, 5:30 pm)
The Center for Material Culture Studies is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a virtual book launch to celebrate the publication of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making… Read More
CFP – 2023 EMERGING SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM (Deadline: May 2)
The Center for Material Culture Studies invites UD graduate students from any discipline to submit proposals for the 17th Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, to be held in April… Read More
Call for Applications: Thing Tank 2022-23 – Material Futures
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) invites applications from UD faculty and graduate students for the 2022-23 Thing Tank research forum, material futures. Thing Tank supports the research and… Read More
Dr. Stacy Alaimo’s Thing Tank Lecture | Feb. 23, 5:30 pm ZOOM
The Center for Material Culture Studies is thrilled to announce that Dr. Stacy Alaimo will be giving a virtual lecture in the Center’s Thing Tank research forum on February 23, at 5:30 pm. Please… Read More
Conserve, Connect, and Communicate: DELPHI ’21 Fellow Alyssa Rina’s Summer Journey in Alaska
Emerging art conservator Alyssa Rina’s summer was unlike any other. After attending Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DELPHI) in June, she flew to Alaska for her internship at the Alaska State… Read More