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
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
NBC Philadelphia Segment Features Professor Joelle Wickens and Former Students
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
CMCS-Affiliated Professors Receive Major National Science Foundation Award
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
Kenneth Cohen Co-Edits Entertainment Nation (NMAH, 2022)
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
Professors Lu Ann De Cunzo and Catharine Dann Roeber Edit New 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
Martin Brückner presents at 2022 AIC Varnished Wall Map Symposium
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
Life Magazine Exhibition Opens at MFA Boston
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
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
Items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection on view in new exhibition, “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young”
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