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Summer Scholar for a NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center

Type: Residencies, Workshops, Exchanges [View all]
Posted by: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Deadline: 03/04/13

The Bard Graduate Center will host a four-week NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture. The institute will focus on the material culture of the nineteenth century and use New York as its case study because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural commodities and promoting consumer tastes. We will study significant texts in the scholarship of material culture together as well as in tandem with visiting some of the wonderful collections in and around New York City for our hands-on work with artifacts. The city will be our laboratory to explore some of the important issues of broad impact that go well beyond New York.

We welcome applications from college teachers and other scholars with some experience doing object-based work, as well as those who have never taught or studied material culture. Application materials and other information about content, qualifications, stipends, housing, etc. is available at http://bgc.bard.edu/neh-institute.

Posted on 12/18/12
Expires on 03/04/13

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