Galina Olmsted (Department of Art History) was a participant in the Delaware Public Humanities Institute in 2016. She defended her dissertation “Making and Exhibiting Modernism: Gustave Caillebotte in Paris, New… Read More
“Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and… Read More
Over summer 2020, Dr. Alison Parker contributed to the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Check out her blog post, “Mary Church Terrell: Black Suffragist and Civil Rights… Read More
The Material Culture Pedagogy Working Group brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students across University of Delaware’s campus and affiliated cultural institutions to discuss how to teach material culture to diverse audiences… Read More
Want to learn about the early modern pearl industry? Check out Dr. Mónica Domínguez Torres’s chapter “Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry” in The… Read More
What is public and who decides? How is racial identity formed, communicated, and negotiated through material, visual, and virtual formats? Public performances of blackness and the politics of racial identity… Read More
Want to learn more about Whistler? Check out the latest Scholar in the Library lecture by Professor Margaret Stetz. A description of her talk is below: Like his contemporary and “frenemy” Oscar… Read More
The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group is an interdisciplinary organization of graduate students at the University of Delaware focused on sharing material culture methodologies. The group convenes throughout… Read More
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society… Read More
Check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s recent contribution, “Thing Theory,” to Oxford Bibliographies Online. If you’ve been looking for a resource dedicated to material culture studies and thing theory, this publication is for you! Wasserman summarizes… Read More
