Academic thinking has always been in active dialogue with changing social, cultural, and political contexts. Many current modes of scholarly thought, which are employed broadly …

Academic thinking has always been in active dialogue with changing social, cultural, and political contexts. Many current modes of scholarly thought, which are employed broadly …

This two-semester, team-taught course introduces incoming students to major historical developments in decorative arts, design, and material culture from antiquity to the present. Monday evening …

This seminar surveys anthropological theories of art and material culture with a cross-cultural purview and a concentration on global Indigenous societies in colonial and contemporary …

This seminar surveys anthropological theories of art and material culture with a cross-cultural purview and a concentration on global Indigenous societies in colonial and contemporary …

This seminar surveys anthropological theories of art and material culture with a cross-cultural purview and a concentration on Indigenous societies in colonial and contemporary times. …

This seminar surveys the Indigenous arts of the Northwest Coast of North America from historical and contemporary perspectives. We will look at a full range …

Over the past two centuries, the museum has emerged as one of the primary institutional venues for intercultural encounter mediated by objects. Practices of both …

Over the past two centuries, the museum has emerged as one of the primary institutional venues for intercultural encounter mediated by objects. Practices of both …

Over the past two centuries, the museum has emerged as one of the primary institutional venues for intercultural encounter mediated by objects. Practices of both …

Colonial encounter involves the meeting of diverse peoples, often on unequal terms, in a variety of sites and mediated by myriad cultural forms. This course …

Although photography is usually approached as a visual medium of image production and reproduction, photographs are also objects with their own unique material properties. They …

Although photography is usually approached as a visual medium of image production and reproduction, photographs are also objects with their own unique material properties. They …

Ethnography, as the practice of cultural description, is associated primarily with anthropology although it is a method taken up by many other disciplines. The term …

This seminar surveys the Indigenous arts of North America’s Northwest Coast from historical and contemporary perspectives, and examines their role in the career of …