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
Category: Featured People
Ren Things: Material Culture Colloquium Creates Website Cataloging Objects
CMCS is proud to feature Matthew Rinkevich’s online learning resource, built with his material culture colloquium. Students engaged in independent research to catalog objects they found in plays they read… Read More
Professor Jennifer Van Horn’s Graduate Seminar: Research in Charlottesville
Professor Jennifer Van Horn took her graduate seminar, “Landscapes of Slavery,” to Charlottesville (UVA’s campus, Monticello, and Montpelier) to experience plantation landscapes firsthand & to consider how these spaces are… Read More
Jessica Conrad wins Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities
Jessica Conrad wins the Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities! More on Conrad’s work can be found here.
Where Are They Now? Featured DELPHI Alumni: Elizabeth Humphrey
Elizabeth Humphrey (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture) was a participant in the Delaware Public Humanities Institute in 2018. She is graduating from her MA program in May 2019 and has… Read More
Launching the Material Culture Perspectives Book Series!
The series publishes innovative studies on material culture in literary, visual, and historical studies. The series seeks titles that engage with physical objects— broadly defined and including their formal attributes, ascribed… Read More
Where Are They Now? Featured DELPHI Alumni: Maria João Petisca
Maria João Petisca (Preservation Studies Program, Department of Art Conservation) was a participant in the Delaware Public Humanities Institute in 2016. She currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where she works in a… Read More