Agency

Author: Odessa Patmos
This past semester, I had the amazing opportunity to intern at Pittsburgh Glass Center, a creative hub for glass artists to...
Author: Noelle Derksen
On Saturday October 22, 2022, I had the great honor of being part of the Silver Eye Center for Contemporary Photography's Annual...
Danse Macabre, Mabel Dwight
Author: Julia Lepre
This semester, I worked with Professor Alex J. Taylor, alongside two other interns, Lee Silva-Walker, and Tiffany Sims. Professor...
Author: Lee Silva-Walker
This semester I had the opportunity to work with Alex J. Taylor, the guest curator for the exhibition, Alone Together: Encounters...
Author: Jackie Bender
The University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives and Special Collections works to preserve, catalogue, and in some cases...
Author: Char Pyle
This past semester, I worked under Coordinator of Archives and Manuscripts David Grinnell to reprocess the American Federation...
Two people in dark shirts and light pants hanging art on a white wall
Author: Abreihona Lenihan
I was ecstatic to learn about the curatorial internship at Contemporary Craft (CC) as I have been eager to both learn and gain...
Author: Ryan Kulka
During Spring 2020, I was an intern at the Carnegie Museum of Art in the Fine Arts Department. Over the course of my internship,...
Author: Diana Flatto
Over the past two years, I have worked on the exhibition “Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music” at Americas Society in New York,...
Author: Marisol Villela Balderrama
As the Teaching Fellow for Pitt’s course Arts and Politics in Modern Latin America (HAA0520), I participated in the class’s first...
Author: Andrea Maxwell
In the History of Art and Architecture Department (HAA) we benefit from our Constellations, researching and learning along...
Author: Sahar S. Hosseini
In the past few months, I have been researching and reading about Pittsburgh and its minority neighborhoods. The drive behind...
Author: Katie LoneyPhD Student in History of Art and Architecture and Graduate Student Assistant in Public HistoryHow can furniture...
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2016 This semester I had a research internship with the...
Our workshop ended on Friday the 13th with a beautiful day at the Carnegie Library of Braddock with the artist collective...
In our far from post-racial world, museums are increasingly feeling the pressures of demographic change and urgent new campaigns...
Digital Tools
Below please find a curated list of the digital tools I am currently recommending to people when they come to me with particular...
Hello all! Contemporaneity co-editors in chief invite you to submit to the department's journal Contemporaneity. The new deadline...
I just returned to Pittsburgh after a month-long trip to Australia. I've spent the past week sorting notes and images and making...
VMW in Summer 2015
Please read this article, "An Undergraduate's Love Letter to Digital Humanities Research," by Tiffany Chan...and let me know your...
With generous support from the Dean of Graduate Studies, ten HA&A graduate students (Maria Castro, Nicole Coffineau, Clarisse...
CAA has produced the pamphlet, "Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for the Visual Arts." It is clear, concise, and direct. Do read...
For the past few months, Aisling and I have been searching for the identification cards created for Chinese immigrants using the...
Sisters Mary and Agnes Berry, daughters of Robery Berry, born in Britain only 14 months apart, naturally had an insepreable bond....
Tim Hitchcock gave a lovely talk at the British Library at the end of last year on "Big Data, Small Data, and Meaning," that...
This is the current theme of Wesleyan's Humanities Center.  To add to all the many "turns" we have heard about, there is now a "...
For your perusal, the following are links to a conversation happening currently about topic modelling and plotting the plot of a...
I've attached a short, interesting piece arguing that historians need to be more engaged with nonacademic publics.  The author...
ULS has recently subscribed to the peer-reviewed journal ARTMargins, published by MIT Press. According to its website, "ARTMargins ...
In the text of a recent a talk that Bethany Nowviskie gave for the Digital Library Federation, she offers a powerful argument for...
Last week’s break-through led us to begin researching the use of the Bertillon system to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act.  The...
I am gearing up to do a DH project which has some interesting parallels with Decomposing Bodies, the Bertillon project about which...
We will be holding a colloquium on this topic on Wed Nov 12 at noon.  In preparation I am posting here a PDF containing some...
Recording data set after data set of prisoner identification cards, a curious abstraction occurs.  The brain seeks the numbers,...
I attended an interesting dicussion today on the (controversial) MLA report advocating significant structural changes in humanities...
For those of you who weren't at the Agency meeting on Sept 28, we decided that we would take up the challenge offered by Barbara to...
In thinking about a possible exhibition on Decomising Bodies, I hope to create an interactive exhibit that recreates the Bertillion...
Some examples of the objects on display at S&S, objects within a hyper- or encompassing object that is itself part of a larger...
Shane Pickett, Medicine grounds that become ready during Bunuroo, 2008 acrylic on linen 183 x 153 cm For the sake of clarity, I...