The forum topic for 2023–2024, Subaltern Matters: Knowledge and Technologies from Below, considers the intersections of material culture studies and subaltern studies. Conventional scholarship has often presented globalization and capitalist… Read More
Earlier this month, Associate Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, Professor Joelle Wickens and some of her former students were featured in a segment on NBC… Read More
Professors Kelly Cobb (Fashion & Apparel Studies) and Kedron Thomas (Anthropology) are part of a team that has received a three-year National Science Foundation grant of $736,893 for their Recycled… Read More
Conservation issues concerning nineteenth-century varnished wall maps present a complicated challenge for paper conservators. Oversized and materially complex compositions, wall maps can be found in virtually every archive and library… Read More
A new exhibition on Life magazine is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition draws on unprecedented access to Life magazine’s picture and paper archives,… Read More
Items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which is part of the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, are now on view in a new exhibition, Aubrey Beardsley, 150… Read More
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
“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
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
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
