Museums, Public History, and Digital Heritage Archives

Academic Awards and Research Fellowships

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” Awards $1,064,500 to Wesleyan University for its “Carceral Connecticut Project,” Exploring the Past and Contemporary Resonances of Slavery, Race, and Industrialization in New England

Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT): Through the generosity of a Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” award, Wesleyan is able to embark on a new project that explores – from interdisciplinary perspectives – the past and contemporary resonances of slavery, race, and industrialization in New England, through innovative curricula, engagement with Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 26, 2022 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

“Visual Histories of Sex: Collecting, Curating, Archiving,” Radical History Review 2022 (142): 1-18.

“Visual Histories of Sex: Collecting, Curating, Archiving,” Radical History Review 2022 (142): 1-18. Co-authors: Heike Bauer, Melina Pappademos, & Katie Sutton. [Free online pdf access through Duke Univ. Press] Abstract: Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 16, 2022 ago

Environmental History

Advisory Board Historical Consultant, Catalyst Chemistry Museum, England, 2019–present.

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By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Exhibitions

Advisor, Museum of Boulder (Colorado), “The Roots of Our Violence: Confronting an Enduring Legacy in the West,” planning phase.

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Academic Awards and Research Fellowships

Creative Campus Initiative Award

In December 2021, I received a $3,600 award from the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) committee to support two artists engaging with a new course to be offered soon. Titled, “Reenacting Justice: Documentary Theater Workshop on U.S. Guns and Gun Violence,” the course will be co-hosted by the Theater Department and co-taught Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Articles

Editors’ Introduction, “Visual Sex: Collecting, Curating, Archiving,” Issue 142 of Radical History Review (Jan. 2022).

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

Advisory Committee Member, Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA initiative. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty, and Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

Art x Science x LA: A series of exhibitions and public programs scheduled to open in 2024 on the topic of The Future in Our Past: Visualizing Human Evolution, 1850 to the Present.

By admin, 3 yearsJanuary 8, 2022 ago

Modern British History, Gender, and Culture

Issues and Methods in Contemporary Historiography

This team-taught course, required for the History major, introduces students to a range of problems, approaches, and methodologies in the contemporary discipline of history. We explore the ethical and public dimension of history; sample a variety of schools of historical thought; examine the problem of historical interpretation; and consider different Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsDecember 29, 2021 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

Introduction to Visual Methods across the Humanities & Social Sciences

The course offers students an introduction to researching with visual materials, content analysis and cultural analytics, visual discourse methods, making images as research data, using images to disseminate research findings, research ethics, and visual methods.

By admin, 3 yearsDecember 29, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Introduction to Guns & Society

This course and lab course will create a research and teaching network across academic divisions, foster individual student work, and engage faculty, local Middletown and New England resources including libraries and museums.

By admin, 3 yearsDecember 29, 2021 ago