Congratulations to CCS Museum Studies alum Jordan Dyer (B.A. in English with minors in Museum Studies and Anthropology and an undergraduate certificate in Linguistics, 2019) on her recent appointment to the Library of Congress as a Digital Conversion Technician in January 2023! Jordan completed her Master of Library & Information Science degree with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Maryland in 2022.
Photo by Shawn… Read more The Clara M. Lovett Humanities in Action Fund supports Public Humanities programming that advances the professional development of students and is community focused. Thanks to a generous grant from past NAU president Dr. Clara Lovett (1993-2001), the department of Comparative Cultural Studies will award two annual grants to teams of NAU faculty and students engaged in community-based public humanities projects. Two grants for up to $2000 each will be awarded each year. The deadline for submission is April 11,… Read more
Apply today for the $5000 Gary Kane Comparative Cultural Studies Study Abroad Scholarship! Learn more here.
Congratulations to CCS Museum Studies Alum Terra Smith, M.A. (B.S. History Honors, Museum Studies minor 2018)! In January 2023, Terra became the Associate Registrar at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Prior to this position, Terra worked at MIM in guest services for several years as well as served as a curatorial intern for the exhibit “Echoes of Loss” at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff. After graduating with honors from NAU, Terra completed a Master… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Emily Lawhead (Art History and Asian Studies, minors in Japanese and Museum Studies, class of 2016)! In 2022, she received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture with a certificate in New Media & Culture from the University of Oregon and became the Editorial Manager for Peer Review at DAJH, a platform for digital art history and home of the International Journal for Digital Art… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Sophie Church (Art History emphasis with minors in Museum Studies, Studio Art, and Chemistry, 2017)! She joined both the Arizona State Library and the Center for Creative Photography as a conservation assistant and conservation technician in 2021. Sophie completed a M.A. in Art History in May 2019 at the University of Arizona. Her thesis research focused on the investigation of a sixteenth-century print by Ugo da Carpi from the University of Arizona Museum of… Read more