What is public and who decides? How is racial identity formed, communicated, and negotiated through material, visual, and virtual formats? Public performances of blackness and the politics of racial identity… Read More
Category: Featured Projects
“Whistler’s Afterlives: J.M. Whistler’s Lasting Cultural Legacy” — Lecture by Dr. Margaret Stetz
Want to learn more about Whistler? Check out the latest Scholar in the Library lecture by Professor Margaret Stetz. A description of her talk is below: Like his contemporary and “frenemy” Oscar… Read More
Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group
The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group is an interdisciplinary organization of graduate students at the University of Delaware focused on sharing material culture methodologies. The group convenes throughout… Read More
DELPHI 2020
And that’s a wrap (for now)! Congrats to our 14 DELPHI Fellows and thanks to our 17 guest speakers for an outstanding two weeks. During the Delaware Public Humanities Institute… Read More
Ren Things: Material Culture Colloquium Creates Website Cataloging Objects
CMCS is proud to feature Matthew Rinkevich’s online learning resource, built with his material culture colloquium. Students engaged in independent research to catalog objects they found in plays they read… Read More
Launching the Material Culture Perspectives Book Series!
The series publishes innovative studies on material culture in literary, visual, and historical studies. The series seeks titles that engage with physical objects— broadly defined and including their formal attributes, ascribed… Read More
ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art
Students and faculty from the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware are proud to announce the launch of the first database prototype connecting objects, literature, and… Read More
The Architecture of Electric Light
By Sandy Isenstadt, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies The Architecture of Electric Light reconceives modernism in architecture to include not just the aesthetic exploitation of new materials… Read More
ThingStor
ThingStor: An American Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature and Visual Art ThingStor is an interactive database that will enable students and scholars to recognize and better understand… Read More