2023
Recent Faculty Affiliate Publications
NBC Philadelphia Segment Features Professor Joelle Wickens and Former Students
Associate Dean for the Humanities Wendy Bellion Co-Edits New Book on Material Culture
DELPHI ’20 & Thing Tank ’21–’22 Fellow Gabriella Johnson wins Rome Prize
Professor Jocelyn Alcántara-Garcia to Give Talk on Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts
Go Barbie or Go Home: An Interview with Sarah Wasserman
Professor Margaret Stetz Authors New Book on Aubrey Beardsley
2022
CMCS-Affiliated Professors Receive Major National Science Foundation Award
Kenneth Cohen Co-Edits Entertainment Nation (NMAH, 2022)
Martin Brückner presents at 2022 AIC Varnished Wall Map Symposium
ThingStor’s Summer 2022 Datathon
Professors Lu Ann De Cunzo and Catharine Dann Roeber Edit New Handbook of Material Culture Studies
CMCS Director Wendy Bellion named associate dean for the humanities
2021
Finkel Fund Awardee Yoo Jin Choi Thinks About the Past and Future of Hanbok
The 2021 BSHS Hughes Prize Awarded to Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s Hearing Happiness
Finkel Fund Awardee Naomi Subotnick Reflects on the Creation of Historical Memory
Wasserman on Disappearing Things and Postwar American Fiction
Virdi Participates in Bard Graduate Center Podcast
Parker’s biography of Turrell featured in C-SPAN & Ms. Magazine
“Heterosexual Histories” co-edited by Rebecca Davis
2020
CMCS Celebrates its 20th Birthday!
Virdi Publishes on Disability & Material Culture
Wasserman Awarded MLA’s William Riley Parker Prize
Stetz Publishes on Exhibitions in Undergraduate Education
Brückner in Conversation: The Clements Bookworm Webinar
“The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel” by Dr. Sarah Wasserman
Parker Publishes on Women’s Suffrage & Civil Rights
Domínguez Torres Publishes in the Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
Stetz Publishes in The Gissing Journal
“Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” by Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
Wasserman Contributes to Oxford Bibliographies Online
B-Sides: Brecht Evens’s “The Making Of” by Dr. Sarah Wasserman
2019
Ren Things: Material Culture Colloquium Creates Website Cataloging Objects
“Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment” by Dr. Wendy Bellion
UDAILY: Students Develop Online Gallery for Wilmington Artists
Jessica Conrad wins Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities
Sarah Wasserman: Podcast about Ephemera
“Electric Light An Architectural History” by Dr. Sandy Isenstadt
2017
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America, Jennifer Van Horn
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast, Julian Yates
João Petisca Featured on “Conversant” Blog
2016
The Material Culture of the Ese’Eja People of the Amazon
Inaugural Finkel Fellowship Recipient, Spencer Wigmore