Museums. Public History. Musetech. Empathy. Monuments. Memory. Of the South. Biographer of Enid Yandell. Occasional tweets dba RIT's Museum Studies program.
It's PubDay! Thank you to all authors to the volume Fallen Monuments & Contested Memorials. I am grateful to the work of Stephen Small, Brenda Schmahmann, and 1/4
#ICYMI, @RITtigers and @RITDiversity announced today that NRH will be renamed Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry Hall. This is the first building to be named after a person of color on RIT’s Henrietta campus. (1/3)
@CJDteaches Thank you @CJDteaches I really appreciate your support - and would love to come share thoughts with your amazing students this year (as always). take care!
It's PubDay! Thank you to all authors to the volume Fallen Monuments & Contested Memorials. I am grateful to the work of Stephen Small, Brenda Schmahmann, and 1/4
@RebeccaPScales Thank you so much @RebeccaPScales for the props and the boost! It was an honor to work on this project, and I learned so much beyond the areas of my own research. #FallenMonumentsContestedMemorials
I am grateful to share the work of colleagues of all ranks and geographies in our publication. And, sincerest thank you to everyone, esp beyond the academy, doing The Work to understand monuments & memorials today. https://t.co/PdjueBSPAT
#FallenMonumentsContestedMemorials 4/4
Mary Rogero, Jeffery Kruth, Annie Dell'Aria, Stephanie Danker, Rachel Huber, Victoria Van Orden Martinez, Malin Thor Tureby, and Francesca Liuni https://t.co/PdjueBSPAT
#FallenMonumentsContestedMemorials 3/4
Thank you so much, @HeidiLowther & team at @RoutledgeHist for supporting our project which offers international perspectives and lines of inquiry around fallen monuments & contested memorials. 20% off here https://t.co/PdjueBSPAT
Published today, this book (ed. by the wonderful @RITmuse) examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments & memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm https://t.co/bTwysxN4xO @RoutledgeHist
My Nokia phone was with me one night in 1999 as I drove home from work at @amhistorymuseum. To my surprise, the mostly silent phone sprang to life—a colleague had a collecting question. I knew that small grey device would speak up more often, blurring lines between work and home.
On Thursday, May 11th, the RIT Archives held its opening reception for 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: 30 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙤 𝙖𝙩 𝙍𝙄𝙏 in the atrium of @ritgolisanoccis. 📷: Keith Bullis. (1/5)
Looking forward to this @arches_ua conference on "Hazardous Heritage: Working w & around dangerous materials in cultural heritage" Call is open: https://t.co/iQNveL2qxj & @SageSociology Collections journal will launch a focus issue based on papers from the conference!
We had the best time with our amazing Museum Studies majors contributing to 10 exhibits across campus #imagineRIT@RIT_LiberalArts#museumStudies https://t.co/EwJQ0Duc78
2nite we welcomed prospective students @RITtigers@RIT_LiberalArts where I shared perspective as a faculty member working w our amazing students--as well as how we roll in #MuseumStudies! Here, I'll share a peek at our new video (#PrePandemicFootage - shout out @JennaBossert ❤️