National Internship Announcement!
Latino Museum Studies Program with the National Museum of the American Latino (Smithsonian) https://latino.si.edu/learn/internships-and-fellowships/latino-museum-studies-program
The LMSP Undergraduate Internship is a program providing hands-on training opportunities for undergraduate students, focusing on the areas of conservation, museum education, digital culture, and exhibition design. With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LMSP partners with select universities to diversify opportunities in museum studies and practice.
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Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos with CCS and Latin American Studies!
Join the department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies program for a celebration of Dia de Los Muertos next week! Between Oct. 30 and November 3, visit the ofrenda table near the information desk at Cline Library and on November 2 make paper flowers and enjoy free hot chocolate and cookies from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Makerlab.
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Faculty news: Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Kent Linthicum co-chaired a session and presented at the ASLE and AESS conference in July
Assistant Teaching Professor of Humanities Dr. Kent Linthicum co-chaired the “Beyond Scholarship ‘As Usual'” panel with Matthew Henry (U. Wyoming) and presented his paper “First Steps towards Finding an Interdisciplinary Home” at the joint Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences conference in Portland, Oregon in July 2023.
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Congratulations to CCS Museum Studies Alum Sabrina Ortiz!
Congratulations to CCS Museum Studies alum Sabrina Ortiz (2021, Anthropology major with a minor in Museum Studies)! She was accepted to the University of Glasgow Master of Sciences program in Information Management & Preservation with a focus in Archives and Records Management. Sabrina began the program in September.
Congratulations to CCS alum Holly Filsinger on her recent virtual lecture series “Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World” at Illinois State University
Congratulations to CCS alum Holly Filsinger on her recent virtual lecture series “Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World” at Illinois State University! She is currently in her second year of graduate school for an M.A. in Visual Culture at ISU. Holly graduated from NAU with a B.A. degree in Comparative Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Art History and a minor in Arts and Cultural Management in 2018. Learn more about the series here.
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Faculty News: Comparative study of religions faculty Dr. Diana Coleman and Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic visit Flagstaff High School
Comparative study of religions Faculty Dr. Diana Coleman and Dunja Jelesijevic brought the study of world religions into our local Flagstaff community this past week during a visit to Flagstaff High School. They gave a team lecture to 5 separate sections of World History students as they finish up their unit on World Religions. They encouraged the students (currently sophomores) to learn about the many reasons that NAU might be a good fit for them, talk about our new… Read more