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Jul 18

Gilcrease Museum’s New Chief Conservator!

Congratulations to Victoria Book on her triumphant return to the Gilcrease Museum as its new Chief Conservator.  Victoria’s museum career began in Tulsa when she was a student at the University of Tulsa (of which the museum is now a part) and a student intern and employee at Gilcrease.  When we were both at the Gilcrease, Victoria, among many other things, helped me (ca. 1999) curate (what I thought was) a really nice exhibition of Inuit prints and sculpture–Inuit Art of Land and Sea

I love the Gilcrease and its amazing collections, thus I am thrilled that Victoria is back in such an important role.  Congratulations!

Jun 4

10 Publishers Moving in the Right Direction

At Open Access Anthropology, I (re-)posted news of an key pro-OA announcement by 10 North American university presses. It is found here.

May 14

Tenure and Promotion!

I am very pleased to note that my brother Craig has earned tenure and been promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University. Craig’s research and teaching focus on issues in social psychology, specifically social cognition, impression management and formation, person-environment fit, and group dynamics. Well done!

May 8

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Jethro Gaede Awarded Ph.D.

Congratulations go to Jethro Gaede*, who has today successfully defended his dissertation and earned the Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.  Jethro’s dissertation is titled “An Ethnohistory of the American Indian Exposition at Anadarko Oklahoma: 1932-2003.” I was honored to serve on Jethro’s committee, both as an OU faculty member and as a visiting member since my move to Indiana. Well done.

*Jethro is an instructor of anthropology at Monroe Community College.

May 8

Congratulations to Arle Lommel

Congratulations go to Arle Lommel, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, for very successfully completing his doctoral exams and reaching candidacy. Arle’s dissertation project is tentatively titled “Ancient Instruments: The Hungarian Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity.”

May 4

100 Summers Exhibition Opens at SNOMNH

I am pleased to note the openning of the “One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record” exhibition at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman. I have not yet heard how the openning events have gone, but I look forward to seeing the exhibition myself this summer.  Learn more about the show here.  Find the associated book, authored by Candace Greene and published by Nebraska, here.

Apr 30

Teri Klassen Reviews “A Cherokee Woman’s America”

Congratulations to Teri Klassen on the publication of her review of the book A Cherokee Woman’s America: Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907. Her review appears in the latest issue of the (print only, but not-for-profit) journal Material Culture*. Well done.

*Volume 41, No. 1, Pp. 92-96.

Apr 29

New M.A. Program at Texas A&M

Copied from a H-Folk posting by Harris Berger:

The Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes the ethnographic study of vernacular culture. The Department of Performance Studies has strengths in Africana studies, dance and ritual studies, ethnomusicology, folklore, performance ethnography, popular music studies, religious studies, theatre and media studies, and women’s studies. Application deadline for Fall, 2010 is January 15, 2010. Assistantships are available.

Apr 24

New Exhibits!

I am late posting on them, but I want to celebrate two new exhibitions at the Mathers Museum that were curated by IU doctoral students, both of whom are minoring in Folklore. Jim Seaver (an alum of my Curatorship and Theories of Material Culture courses and a history doctoral student) curated “A World of His Own: The Uncommon Artisty of Chester Cornett.” The exhibition looks at the work of a Kentucky chairmaker whose life and art were originaly documented in the dissertation and later books produced by folklorist Michael Owen Jones. The Mathers staff really outdid itself in helping Jim realize his vision. The exhibition includes a number of innovate custom display elements, incuding a shotgun house with a front poarch on which to display Cornett’s chairs.

The second new exhibition is “Clothes, Collections and Culture… What is a Curator? Undertaken by Lori Hall-Araujo, a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and Cuture, the exhibition utilizes the Royce Collection of Isthmus Zapotec Textiles and Clothing to examine the behind the scenes work of museum curators.

Both exhibitions are visiually and intellectually compelling and both were vigorously celebrated at a joint exhibition openning last Friday evening. Congratulations to Lori and to Jim and to the entire Mathers Museum staff. Wonderful!  Learn more here and here.

Apr 4

Anthropological Linguist Mary Linn Named DaVinci Fellow

I am so pleased to note that my friend and collaborator Mary Linn (Associate Curator of Native American Languages at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History) has been named as one of five 2009 DaVinci Fellows by the DaVinci Institute. Mary is the founding curator of the museum’s Native American Languages program and has done amazing outreach work with American Indian communities across Oklahoma and the whole of the United States. Among the innovative efforts that she has stewarded is the museum’s annual Native American Youth Language Fair, which, each spring, attracts close to 1,000 American Indian students to the museum for two days of programs in which they make public presentations in the languages of their home communities.

Thanks to Indian Country Today for getting out the news of this well-deserved award. Find their story here. Congratulations Mary! An honor well bestowed.

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