The Wider World: Getting to Know a New Area

The Wider World: Getting to Know a New Area

Summer is often a time of change. Many recent graduates of the Tufts Museum Studies program are either already in, or in the process of finding, jobs that will take them to places they have never lived. Many of us are interning somewhere new to 

The Changing of the Guard

The Changing of the Guard

Congratulations to our outgoing blog manager, Phillippa Pitts, who graduated from Tufts with a Master’s in Art History and Museum Studies this spring. Regular readers of the blog will know me, Tegan, as the author of the monthly column “The Wider World.” I’m going to 

Free Workshop for EMPS next Thursday

Free Workshop for EMPS next Thursday

It’s exactly as it sounds: a FREE workshop with one of our favorite Tufts professors with no registration fee. Creativity in Museum Practice Thursday, June 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm USS Constitution Museum Join Rainey Tisdale and Linda Norris, authors of the new book Creativity in 

Museum Next Scholarships!

Museum Next Scholarships!

If you haven’t heard of Museum Next… you should! It’s Europe’s major conference on museums and technology AND they’re offering incredibly simple-to-apply-to scholarships for student EMPs. Find out more here.  

Ushers at the Gates of Information

Ushers at the Gates of Information

by columnist Tegan Kehoe A couple weeks ago, I was a part of Boston’s first History Camp, an “unconference” that was organized by volunteers and a wiki. One of the panels was on means of publishing for history books, and Boston historian J. L. Bell 

Apply for coursework in Rwanda and Ethiopia!

Apply for coursework in Rwanda and Ethiopia!

Apply for a fourteen day course this August through Rutgers University. This special educational travel seminar to Rwanda and Ethiopia is designed for emerging scholars in the fields of Comparative Genocide Studies, Memory Studies, Museum Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History and cognate