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
Category: Announcements
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
Announcing the 2021-2022 Thing Tank Fellows
Thing Tank is an annual research forum for UD faculty and graduate students. Every year, CMCS appoints a cohort of up to ten Faculty Fellows and Graduate Fellows to study… Read More
Introducing the 2021 DELPHI Fellows
Today marks the beginning of DELPHI 2021! The Center is thrilled to (virtually) welcome a new cohort to the Institute. Over the next two weeks, the DELPHI Fellows will learn… Read More
ThingStor Webinar Now Available
A recording of the ThingStor virtual webinar is now available on YouTube. During the event, working group members introduced the database and spoke about their experiences of cataloging objects represented… Read More
CMCS Faculty: Recent Appointments and Elections
Our CMCS affiliate faculty have been busy! The Center is thrilled to share recent news about three of its members: Dr. Zara Anishanslin (History & Art History), Dr. Jesse Erickson (English & Morris… Read More
May 27 – Graduate Student Working Group Panel Discussion
Please join the CMCS Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group for the panel discussion “Manuscripts as Material Artefacts: Decoding and Interpreting Historic Book Structures and Scripts.” Members from the Collections… Read More
Yates in Conversation: Noah’s Archive
As a part of the conference “Sea Sense: Blue Humanities and the Early Modern Imaginary,” Professors Julian Yates and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen were interviewed about their book in progress on Noah’s Ark. The… Read More
May 18 – Webinar: Bellion on the Art of Destruction
On May 18th at 4pm, please join Professor Wendy Bellion for the webinar “The Art of Destruction,” hosted by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society. Bellion… Read More
CMCS Spring Grant Awardees
Congratulations to our spring grant awardees! Flip through the slideshow below to learn more.