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
Announcing the 2022–2023 Thing Tank Fellows
Category: Announcements
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
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
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
CMCS: A History 2000-2020
To mark our 20th anniversary, the Center has developed an illustrated history of CMCS on the ArcGIS platform StoryMaps. Explore our rich history by scrolling through the window below, or click… Read More