Dr. Laura Helton, assistant professor of English and History at the University of Delaware, has published a new book titled Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and… Read More
Category: Featured Publications
Recent Faculty Affiliate Publications
We are proud to highlight recent books published by CMCS Faculty Affiliates: Carla Guerrón Montero: Población Afroantillana y Turismo en Panamá: De Migrantes Temporales a Atractivos Permanentes, Arwen Mohun: American Imperialist: Cruelty… Read More
Go Barbie or Go Home: An Interview with Sarah Wasserman
Earlier this month, UDaily’s Diane Stopyra spoke with Sarah Wasserman, director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies and associate professor of English, on Barbie’s immense theater… Read More
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
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
CMCS Virtual Book Launch Event – Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing (May 10, 5:30 pm)
The Center for Material Culture Studies is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a virtual book launch to celebrate the publication of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making… Read More
Elusive Archives: Former CMCS Co-directors published the inaugural volume of Material Culture Perspectives series
In their recently published book, Elusive Archives (University of Delaware Press, 2021), former CMCS co-directors Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt ask how material culture is studied in today’s world. The… Read More
Rebecca Davis, Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions that Changed American Politics (UNC Press, 2021)
Professor Rebecca L. Davis published her new book, Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics (UNC Press, 2021). Her study explores the way in which mid-twentieth-century American… Read More
Carla Guerrón Montero, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions (The University of Alabama Press, 2020)
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