A senior with a dual major in Comparative Cultural Studies and History and a Museum Studies minor, Alexandra Williams, curated the exhibition currently on display in the Cline Library, “TIMBER! Northern Arizona’s Logging Legacy.” Williams led the curation of this exhibition as part of her Elizabeth and P. T. Reilly Internship during the summer of 2024 at the Cline Library. Williams’s personal research interests in the environmental humanities, her future goals continuing research in museum studies, and experience… Read more
Student Research
Save the date! Museum Studies Club presents a talk with NAU alum Terra Smith on Friday November 8
The Museum Studies Club presents a talk with NAU alum Terra Smith, Associate Registrar at the Musical Instrument Museum on Friday, Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Cline Library room 249. Learn about careers in museums, graduate & post graduate planning, and how to maximize your education for the career you want. Terra graduated from NAU in 2018 with a B.S. in History and a minor in Museum Studies before completing an M.A. degree in Art History, Curatorship, and… Read more
Exhibition Opportunity for Fall 2024
Apply today! Application will close once 5 qualified students are identified.
This internship opportunity is for “Casta Paintings: Colonial Peoples’ Classification and Its Repercussion on Modern Mexico,” and is a NAU Student-Faculty Public Humanities Project with the department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Martin-Springer Institute. Dr. Pedro Gonzalez Corona (Future Faculty Fellow with CCS and Criminology/Criminal Justice) and Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer (Director of MSI) will mentor students for the exhibit.
During the Spanish colonial rule in the New Spain—and other… Read more
Congratulations to the CCS Outstanding Senior Joce Dolezal for spring 2024!
CCS was pleased to recognize the achievements of graduating senior Joce Dolezal with the Outstanding Senior award for spring 2024 at our awards ceremony… Read more
Congratulations to our spring scholarship winners!
Congratulations to our scholarship winners for spring 2024! CCS faculty, graduating seniors and scholarship and book prize winners gathered for our spring awards ceremony last week to celebrate our students and their achievements.
… Read moreCCS at the NAU Undergraduate Symposium Spring 2024
Eleven CCS students presented their research at the spring 2024 NAU Undergraduate Symposium on Friday April 26!
Laura Barclay (B.A. in Anthropology with minors in Humanities and Museum Studies) presented the poster The First… Read more