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
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
What do things do within the act of protest? — Honors Colloquium “Objects of Unrest: The Material Culture of Protest”
“The material culture of protest is not limited to the protestors.” Art History doctoral candidate Rachael Vause had a memorable Spring semester teaching the Honors Colloquium, “Objects… 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