MSMC May 2020 Newsletter

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MuseNews 
The UMD Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Newsletter
Welcome to the sixth edition of MuseNews, the official newsletter of the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Graduate Certificate Program and the University of Maryland! We hope this newsletter finds you healthy and safe.

If you would like to contribute to the next newsletter, please contact kenna@umd.edu.

Program News
If you are interested in applying to complete the MSMC Graduate Certificate, please note that the application deadline is June 1, 2020. Please use this form to apply. Please let Kenna (kenna@umd.edu) know if you have any trouble using the form and let Dr. Sies (sies@umd.edu) know if you have any questions about the program.

Congratulations to our 2020 Grads!
We wish you all the best of luck!
Do stay in touch - join our new LinkedIn group.

Farewell, Mary!
William H. Johnson, Flowers, 1939-1940, oil on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation
We would like to thank Mary Alexander for her dedication to the program as Director and Co-Director over the past three years. During her time with MSMC, Mary has been influential in all aspects of the program, including teaching our introductory course, research seminar, and advising on many practicum projects. She has also invited a wider range of museum and historical site professionals onto our board. Using her vast knowledge of small and large museums across the region, Mary has brought many resources and opportunities to our students, including great ideas for practicum projects. We will miss you, Mary! We wish you all the best in your retirement. Our biggest wish is that you will not be a stranger, and hope we can continue to explore museums together! 

Welcoming Our New Director
Dr Mary Corbin Sies is an Associate Professor of American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women’s Studies, the Historic Preservation program, and the Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity. She received her Ph.D. in American Culture
from the University of Michigan in 1987. Her research and teaching interests span material and visual culture, planning history, architectural history, urban/suburban history, and cultural and social history of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her most recent edited book (with Isabelle Gournay and Robert Freestone), Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change (University of Pennsylvania, 2019) was awarded the best edited work in planning history by the International Planning History Society in 2020. One of the four founding members of the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture graduate certificate program, Dr Sies previously directed the program from 2006 until 2013. She has consulted on museum exhibitions for the Margaret Strong Museum, the National Building Museum, and the Bass Museum in Miami Beach. Locally, she volunteers with the Greenbelt Museum and the Lakeland Community Heritage Project, where she is part of the Lakeland Digital Archive team, a community/university collaboration pioneering an equitable and community-driven digital heritage project. She is an avid museum-goer with a special appreciation for community museums and local heritage societies around the world.

Student Curated Exhibition
If you missed the launch event, students in the Museum Research Seminar class created an excellent online exhibition entitled, Claiming Their Space: Black Student Activism at the University of Maryland. Congratulations to them on creating an excellent exhibition despite considerable challenges! View the exhibition here.

Things to Read
Here are a mixture of resources MSMC students and staff wanted to share with you this month: Some fun things:

Opportunities
Exhibits Specialist (AV & Lighting)
Deadline: June 8

 The primary purpose of this position is to ensure that all AV and lighting equipment and systems used within the National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibitions are functioning properly and efficiently at all times to fully maximize the visitor experience.
Research Cataloguer
Deadline: June 18

The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum seeks to contract a Research Cataloguer for a year-long research and cataloguing project beginning in July 2020. The project works closely with local communities to develop documentation around Asian Pacific American foodways and food businesses in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and aims to develop rich online content related to the region’s vibrant food cultures.
 
Please contact kenna@umd.edu for the details on how to put in a bid to do this work.
Smithsonian Fall Internships
Deadline: July 1
The following departments are looking for Fall Interns: Archives, Gardens, Museum of African Art, Museum of American History, Office of Advancement, and Smithsonian Associates. 
Registration for #AAMVirtual is now open!
June 1-4

Envisioning a new future after COVID-19 requires us to ask what decisions we can make that will not only help us overcome the immediate threat, but help us to rebuild a more sustainable, inclusive, and powerful museum field.
Call for papers: Museum & Society 
The editors of Museum & Society seek initial responses for their November 2020 issue: short (1000-1500 words) papers reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 on cultural organizations; new challenges, realities, and practices emerging during the pandemic; and the impact of the pandemic on planning activities and institutional discourses. 
Pathways Program in the Regional Subsistence Program at the National Park Service, Alaska
Deadline: June 24

This is an excellent opportunity for an anthropology graduate student to gain valuable interdisciplinary experience in the Federal government. 
National Park Service Internships
Deadline: Various
NPS offers a selection of internships. Check them out now for the Fall.
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