“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
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
CMCS’s graduate student working group ThingStor finished its bi-annual Datathon last week. Over the two-day event, UD students from various disciplines gathered together in a conference room on campus… Read More
Last September, DELPHI ’21 fellow Michael Hartman began a full-time position as the Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.… Read More
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
The Center is thrilled to share that the registration page is open for the upcoming CMCS Biennial Conference in Material Culture, “The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches.” Please… Read More
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
Graduate student Lea Stephenson conducted exploratory research for her dissertation “‘Wonderful Things’: Egyptomania, Empire, and the Senses, 1870-1922” with the support of the CMCS Rockwood Fund. Lea notes that in… Read More
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
Last May, Professor Julian Yates joined Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen to give a virtual talk about their work-in-progress at the “Sea Sense: Blue Humanities and the Early Modern Imaginary” conference.… Read More
