Debra Hess Norris, the Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts and the chair of the Department of Art Conservation at UD, has received the 2016 award for… Read More
Debra Hess Norris Wins National Preservation Award
All posts by Natalie Wright
The Architecture of Electric Light
By Sandy Isenstadt, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies The Architecture of Electric Light reconceives modernism in architecture to include not just the aesthetic exploitation of new materials… Read More
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives was published in Fall, 2014, by the University of Delaware Press. The volume was edited by Deborah Andrews, the former Director of the Center for Material… Read More
Green Light Symposium Bridges Arts & Sciences
For over a year, the Center for Material Culture Studies has helped develop the program of Art & Science: Connections and Intersections. This initiative works to bring together scholars from… Read More
Students Share Their Research At Osher
The Center arranged a speaker series for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, based in Wilmington. Speakers were drawn largely from current UD graduate students, from English, History, Art History, Art… Read More
ThingStor
ThingStor: An American Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature and Visual Art ThingStor is an interactive database that will enable students and scholars to recognize and better understand… Read More