Index
All articles published by CMSMC are available through this index. Articles are organized by month published and are in alphabetical order within their publication month. If you have any questions regarding an article or need assistance with research, please contact CMSMC at admin@cmsmc.org
May 2023
Eure, Cecelia. “Crafting Legacy with Broken Pieces: Lee Family Fragments at Winterthur.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, May 26, 2023.
March 2023
Velazquez, Alejandra. “Rebodying Stereotypes: Contemporary Indigenous Artists and the Body.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 24, 2023.
January 2023
Krehbiel, Fredderica. “Knights of the Round Table: Knighthood in History vs. Medieval Arthurian Literature Part 1.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, January 27, 2023. cmsmc.org/publications/knights-of-the-round-table-1.
December 2023
Jacobs, Michael. “Peering Through the Hood: The Material/Visual Culture of the Second KKK.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, December 3, 2022.
Spencer, Tyler. “Picturing Materiality: Timothy O’Sullivan, Geology, and the American Landscape.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, December 16, 2022.
November 2023
Shenk, Madi. “Encountering Eurocentric Beauty Ideals and Childhood Identity Formation in Collages by Deborah Roberts.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, November 18, 2022.
September 2023
Yin, Le. “Lenguaje, Llengua, y La Vanguardia: Avant-Gardism in Barcelona and Madrid from 1915 to 1925.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, September 9, 2022.
June 2022
Beeson, Lillian. “Curatorial Practice and the Power of Perception: Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum and the Newly Reinstalled British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 14, 2022.
Epplett, Abigail. “Abolitionist Broadsides and Anti-Slavery Imagery.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 17, 2022.
Reed, Clara Jeanne. “Amazon Warriors in Classical Greek Art: Exploring Patriarchal Foundations in Ancient Greece.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 3, 2022.
May 2022
Beason, Roxanne. “Lost and Found: Anna Belle Mitchell, Jane Osti, and the ‘Revival’ of Cherokee Pottery in Oklahoma.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, May 20, 2022.
April 2022
Givens, Madison. “‘Three Is a Magic Number’: The Triple Threat of Being Black, Female, and a Panther.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 22, 2022.
Stoltzfus, Brianna. “Material Culture and the McNeil Galleries: A Review of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Reinterpretation of Its Early American Collection.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, Opinion, April 8, 2022.
February 2022
Bisi, Francesca. “‘Conquête Militaire’: The Ethics of Restitution of the Louvre’s Napoleonic Legacy.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 25, 2022.
Paulson, Elizabeth. “‘Take Heed of Revelations:’Puritanism, Spirituality, and Mental Instability in the Case of Dorothy Talbye.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 11, 2022.
January 2022
Prinkey, Kathryn. “Cultural Colonialism at the Museum of the Bible: Have They Found Redemption?” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, 1, January 21, 2022.
December 2021
Henzlik, Sarah. “A Closer Look: Funerary Studies, Material Culture, and the Maya.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, December 3, 2021.
Pownall, Kathryn. “The Material Culture of the Sports Bra: Supporting Innovation and Femininity in Athletics.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, December 17, 2021.
November 2021
Kerwin, Matthew. “A Marxist Approach to Ptolemaic Society: Through the Lens of the Maritime Industry.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, November 12, 2021.
October 2021
Neurock Schriner, Aryn G. “Close Encounters: Reconsidering Conventional Wisdom in a Global Pandemic.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 15, 2021.
Ochoa Rincon, Laura. “‘Take Me Back to the Good Old Days’: Racism, Berlin Wool Work, and Comfort.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 29, 2021.
Ward, Logan. “Museum Orientalism: East versus West in US American Museum Administration and Space, 1870-1910. Part Two.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, 1, October 7, 2021.
Ward, Logan. “Museum Orientalism: East versus West in US American Museum Administration and Space, 1870-1910. Part One.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, 1, October 1, 2021.
August 2021
Johansen, Elena. “Monstrous Women: Costuming Horror Film in the 21st Century.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, August 20, 2021.
Wahlen, Samantha. “Her Perfection Is My Wound: A Look at Hans Bellmer’s La Demie Poupée.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, August 6, 2021.
July 2021
Bidmead, Isabella, and Markus Mindrebø. “An Honest Day’s Work: Pastoral Romanticism in Open-World Role-Playing Games.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, 1, July 16, 2021. https://cmsmc.org/publications/an-honest-days-work.
Bidmead, Isabella, and Markus Mindrebø. “An Honest Day’s Work: Pastoral Romanticism in Open-World Role-Playing Games.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, July 20, 2021. https://cmsmc.org/publications/an-honest-days-work-2.
Hamilton, Katherine Jemima. “The Dual Life of Northwest Coast First Nations Masks in Western Institutions: Alternative Methods of Display at the Museum at Campbell River, Nuyumbalees Cultural Center, and U’mista Cultural Center and Society.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, July 2, 2021.
Staton, Christine. “Manufactoring Heritage: Hidden Histories of The Palazzo Strozzi.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, July 30, 2021.
Thompson, Roisin. “Enigmatic Lives: An Object Biography of the Trundholm Sun Chariot.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, July 9, 2021.
Lu, Jinglin. “Culture, Community, and the WeChat Platform in a Time of Crisis.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, July 23, 2021.
June 2021
Brand, Leah. “Crafting Cottagecore : Digital Pastoralism and the Production of an Escapist Fantasy.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 25, 2021.
Epplett, Abigail. “Navigating Copyright Law, Databases, and Accessibility When Creating Online Exhibits.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 18, 2021.
Manfredi, Mary. “Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth (1857) : A Window into Nineteenth Century Domestic Domains.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 11, 2021.
Renken, Sophie. “The Performativity of Hair in Victorian Mourning Jewellery.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 4, 2021.
May 2021
Burbeck, Allyson. “A Tale of Two Murals: The Divide Between Community Muralism and Street Art in the ‘Creative City.’” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, May 7, 2021.
Klein, Colton. “ ‘Rust Flavored Air’ : Materiality and Ecocriticism in Charles Burchfield’s Hillside Homes.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, May 14, 2021.
Robertson, Olivia. “The Consequences of an Unfinished Christ.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, May 21, 2021.
April 2021
Gillespie, Hope Elizabeth. “Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 9, 2021.
Hardman, Anneliese. “Cambodian Artistic Resilience: Outlets of Khmer Cultural Survival since the Khmer Rouge.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 23, 2021.
Heimerman, Emily. “A Portrait of Death: Analyzing the Transi Tomb of Guillaume de Harcigny (1300-1393 A.D.).” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 2, 2021.
Larson, Madeleine. “The Archivist’s Creative Act: A Postmodern Analysis of Tate Archive.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 30, 2021.
Smolenski, MaryKate. “‘Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World’ Recap.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, April 16, 2021.
March 2021
Goldstein, Jacqueline. “Machines in the Garden: The Private Houses of Richard Neutra.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 12, 2021.
Girnus, Bridget. “The Power of Museum Contexts to Shape Change: The Relationship Between Activist Art and Museum Missions.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 26, 2021.
Harter, Alexandra. “Cultural Consumption, Colonialism, and Nationalism in an Egyptian Alabaster Scarab Beetle.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 5, 2021.
Horowitz, Yael. “A Tea Set, A Bell, and A Wall: Spatial Distribution of Power and Control at the Octagon.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 19, 2021.
February 2021
Beaulieu, Emily. “William Holman Hunt’s Hireling Shepherd: A Divinely Ordained Victorian Ecology.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 5, 2021.
Kaye, Ariana. “Winckelmann Revisited: Andy Warhol’s Blow Job.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 14, 2021.
Öğütogulları, Delfin. “In the Absence of Body Hair: Riza Abbasi’s Nude and Its Analysis as the Ideal Persian Women.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 26, 2021.
Wohlforth, Julia. “The KitchenAid: Shared Cultural Nostalgia for Past Ideas of Progress.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 12, 2021.
January 2021
Bedell, Mary Rose. “Kid Gloves: The Child Armor of Philip III.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, January 29, 2021.
Epplett, Abigail. “Metis Leather Jacket: Exploring Syncretic Culture in the Mid-19th Century.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, January 22, 2021.
Henzlik, Sarah. “Autonomy and Power: Maya Scribes.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, January 7, 2021.
Romano, Jessica. “Sir John Soane’s Maori Spear.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, January 15, 2021.
November 2020
Bidmead, Isabella. “Borat in the Age of Digital Inauthenticity.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, November 6, 2020.
Rashba, Margot. “Benjamin Franklin and the Sartorial Identity of Early America.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, 1, November 13, 2020.
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Sheehan, Sydney. “History Should Make You Uncomfortable.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, November 20, 2020.
October 2020
Golovchenko, Margaryta. “The Female Body as Commodity: The Woman in Alphonse Mucha’s JOB Poster (1896).” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 9, 2020.
Iacono, Elisabeth. “‘Testimonies of Rank and Character’: An Examination of General John Brooks’ Blades and Masculine Values.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 23, 2020.
Picariello, Maria. “A Measured Response: New England History in Three Recipes.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 16, 2020.
Quint, Jackie. “A Picture Worth A Thousand Words: Comparing Photographs of Queen Victoria and Dowager Empress Cixi.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 30, 2020.
Romano, Jessica. “To Walk Like an Egyptian: Today’s Museum Visitors’ Experience in Connecting with The Individuals of Ancient Egypt.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 2, 2020.
September 2020
Gillespie, Hope. “Imperialism, Identity, and Image: Looking at Colonial Objects in English Museums.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, September 11, 2020, 15.
Sheehan, Sydney. “Beaded Soles: Finding Footprints in the Art of Native America.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, September 18, 2020.
Smolenski, MaryKate. “Curating Controversy: Addressing the Theodore Roosevelt Statue.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, September 25, 2020.