The forum topic for 2023–2024, Subaltern Matters: Knowledge and Technologies from Below, considers the intersections of material culture studies and subaltern studies. Conventional scholarship has often presented globalization and capitalist… Read More
Category: Announcements
Professor Margaret Stetz Authors New Book on Aubrey Beardsley
Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, is the author of a new book, Aubrey Beardsley: 150 Years Young. The book, which was published by the University of… Read More
Call for Applications: Thing Tank 2023–2024 – Subaltern Matters
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
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
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
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
The 2021 BSHS Hughes Prize Awarded to Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s Hearing Happiness
The British Society for the History of Science recently announced that the 2021 Hughes Prize for an accessible book in the history of science is awarded to Dr. Jaipreet… Read More