The H-Net Network on Material Culture and Vernacular Landscapes and Artifact Preservation will promote and support the study of objects, buildings, sites, structures, landscapes and other material cultural productions as part of the visual record of life.
We are currently seeking reviewers for a large backlog of books on material culture! Please consider becoming a reviewer for H-Material Culture by visiting this page and filling out the form to be included in our reviewer database.
We welcome announcements, CFP's, queries, contributions, and discussions of all things material! To add yours, click the orange "Start a Discussion" button above this text.
If you have an idea for a new on-going feature or a one time resource for the field, let us know. Podcasts? Video tours? Image galleries? Digitization projects? Let us know what you're thinking.
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Recent Announcements and other activity appear below. All CFP's posted to the site can be found in the links on the right, as can Jobs in Material Culture Studies.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Columbia University - Lecturer in Discipline (Fellow in Global
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is pleased to announce the winner of its prize for the best first book published in 2019. Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany, written by Matthew H. Birkhold and published by Oxford University Press, was selected from a shortlist of seven excellent academic monographs. The prize includes a cash award of CAD $3,000.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from individuals and institutions to co-organize research workshops in conjunction with the Mandel Center in 2022.
The Swan Historical Foundation, Inc. in Titusville, NJ and the David Center for the American Revolution at the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia invite applications for an inaugural short-term residential research fellowship in Revolutionary-Era Material Culture (defined as 1750-1820).
Hello friends,
Just a quick reminder that H-Material Culture is seeking applications for a new Network Editor-in-Chief. Applications are due January 31, 2021. Please see the original call here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7842/discussions/7004357/h-material-culture-seeks-new-editor
The Library Company of Philadelphia welcomes applications for its Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowships, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowships, and Francis Johnson Fellowships. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2021.
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ANCIENT HISTORY
University of Groningen - Assistant Professor Ancient History (1.0
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Also Kevin Smith, curator at the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown would likely be a good resource: https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/index.php?...
You might try contacting Marge Bruchac at UPenn:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/margaret-bruchac
I am an AmeriCorps service member and currently work at an environmental nonprofit in southeastern Massachusetts. As part of my service work, I am collaborating with local Wampanoag groups so as to infuse the nonprofit's conservation mission with indigenous knowledge. One of the groups I'm working with, called the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC), is embarking on an endeavor that involves correlating historical Wampanoag cultural artifacts they have in their possession (for use in an educational exhibit) with native archaeological sites in Massachusetts.
Snow globes are childhood’s wintery dreamlands, so powerful an allegory that they appear in films, television series, and commercials to carry spectators into a holiday happily-ever-after. During the holiday season, should a snow globe not be readily available from a nearby toy chest or shelf, you can download a snowglobe app for both iPhone and Android, transforming your quotidian emails and social media sites. The ongoing popularity of these iconic pop culture objects, now transformed to the digital realm, gives pause to ask: why snow globes?
Here's a review just published on H-USA about the role of houses in creating race in the US.
The scrolling images to left are from H-Material-Culture's "Occasional Objects" series--a periodic informal examination of objects sent in by our subscribers. View the full collection, read the essays, and add your contribution here in Occasional Objects.
Also Kevin Smith, curator at the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown would likely be a good resource: https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/index.php?...
You might try contacting Marge Bruchac at UPenn:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/margaret-bruchac
I am an AmeriCorps service member and currently work at an environmental nonprofit in southeastern Massachusetts. As part of my service work, I am collaborating with local Wampanoag groups so as to infuse the nonprofit's conservation mission with indigenous knowledge. One of the groups I'm working with, called the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC), is embarking on an endeavor that involves correlating historical Wampanoag cultural artifacts they have in their possession (for use in an educational exhibit) with native archaeological sites in Massachusetts.
Good morning! Will this conference be live-streamed, or live-tweeted for those who cannot attend?
