This spring, UD’s Old College Main and West Galleries opened two new exhibitions with a wide material culture focus. Read below to learn more! Art, Artifacts and Specimens from the… Read More
UD Museums Spring Exhibitions
Wasserman on Disappearing Things and Postwar American Fiction
In March, Dr. Sarah Wasserman participated in an interview for A Bit Lit where she spoke about her recently published book, ephemera, and material culture studies. Founded in spring 2020, A Bit Lit provides a… Read More
Virdi Participates in Bard Graduate Center Podcast
This past February, Professor Jaipreet Virdi participated in an episode of Fields of the Future, a podcast hosted by the Bard Graduate Center. The podcast amplifies the voices and highlights the work of… Read More
“From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions” by Dr. Carla Guerrón Montero
Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building.… Read More
Registration Open: 2021 Emerging Scholars, “Animaterialities”
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware welcomes you to the 16th Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, “Animaterialities: The Material Culture of Animals (including Humans).”… Read More
Special Collections Online Exhibition – “Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards”
The University of Delaware’s Special Collections has recently published the online exhibition “Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards.” Postcards have long been a part of American material culture, yet they… Read More
Parker’s biography of Turrell featured in C-SPAN & Ms. Magazine
Professor Alison Parker‘s biography of the civil rights activist and Black feminist Mary Church Terrell, Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (UNC Press, 2020), has been featured in… Read More
CFP “Ecomaterialism”: 2021-2022 CMCS Thing Tank
The Center for Material Culture Studies invites applications for Thing Tank, a new annual research forum for CMCS affiliated faculty and graduate students. Modeled on interdisciplinary seminars at research universities, Thing Tank… Read More
Blackness & Publicness Working Group Spring Schedule
The Blackness and Publicness Working Group has released its Spring 2021 workshop schedule. Participants will workshop writings-in-progress and discuss readings that interrogate Blackness and publicness from the early modern period to… Read More
“Heterosexual Histories” co-edited by Rebecca Davis
Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories… Read More