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When Pop-Up Museums Are the Answer
There is nothing terribly new about Pop-Up Museums. The concept originated in the 1990s. In a Museum 2.0 post, Nina Simon describes Pop-Up Museums as ”a short-term institution existing in a...
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Not Hating or Loving, but Empowering With Museums
Parque Litico, Museo Arqueológico de Ancash, Huaraz, Peru James Durston, the senior editor for travel at CNN recently wrote the op-ed Why I Hate Museums. The piece generated a polarized reaction...
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Thoughts on How to Get a Museum Job
Fitting for Labor Day here in the United States is a post about employment in the cultural heritage sector, specifically, museums. Users of LinkedIn and various LISTSERVs often post discussions...
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The End of an Era in Louisiana Archaeology
Tom Eubanks, 2004 Or What I Learned During My Time in the Louisiana Regional Archaeology Program . . . The Fall 2013 Newsletter of the Louisiana Archaeological Society had bad news. Louisiana’s...
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New Opportunities with International Archaeology Day
Hualcayán, Peru This year, the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Archaeology Day has become International Archaeology. The event will occur this coming Saturday, October 19th. This...
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Classroom Resources in Archaeology
This past weekend I helped staff the exhibit table of the Archaeology Education Clearinghouse at the National Council for Social Studies conference in St. Louis. Most attendees were middle through...
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Why I Blog About Archaeology
So Doug, over at Doug’s Archaeology, launched a blogging carnival leading up to the Blogging in Archaeology session at the Society for American Archaeology 2014 meetings in Austin. The idea is that...
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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly About Blogging
So Doug, over at Doug’s Archaeology, launched a blogging carnival leading up to the Blogging in Archaeology session at the Society for American Archaeology 2014 meetings in Austin. The idea is that...
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Thinking Local in Archaeological Outreach
SCAPOD co-founders from left to right Helena Ferguson, Meg Gaillard, and Erika Shofner The South Carolina Archaeology Public Outreach Division (SCAPOD) was formed in 2010 with a mission to engage the...
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Applying Archaeology with the Public
This semester I am teaching Applied Archaeology and Museums at the University of Memphis. This course addresses my primary research interests – the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage...
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Twitter as a Cultural Resource Outreach Tool
This past November, along with my colleagues Sarah Miller, Christy Pritchard, and Steve Dasovich, I attended the National Council of Social Studies conference in St. Louis to staff the Archaeology...
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What if No One Comes to the Party?
2013 Art for Voice creator Penny Dodds (left) with participants This semester I am teaching one of my favorite classes of all time – Applied Archaeology and Museums. The course is in part a glomming...
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Museum Studies Programs and Small Museums
Check out my guest post this week Museum Studies Programs and Small Museums, a Win-Win Collaboration at the American Association of State and Local History blog.
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Blogging Archaeology in the Future
The final question posed by Doug for the blog carnival leading up the Society for American Archaeology meetings in April is: “…where are you/we going with blogging or would you it like to go? I will...
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Co-Creation, the Public, and the Archaeological Record
My colleague Elizabeth Bollwerk and I have organized a session of papers (Friday morning, April 25 at 8:00 AM) around the theme of Co-Creation, the Public, and the Archaeological Record for the...
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Reading the Built Environment
A benefit to my job at the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa is that I work at a museum surrounded by 40 acres of forests that is surrounded by another 1400 acres of forests and open grasslands. This...
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Public Education Committee Sponsored Sessions at the Society for American...
I am honored to currently serve as the Chair of the Public Education Committee (PEC) of the Society for American Archaeology. At the Annual Conference of the SAA this April 23-27 the PEC is pleased to...
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Some Museum and Archaeology Career Resources
At the recent Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Austin Texas, I participated in a speed mentoring session sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology. My assigned focus...
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Applied Archaeology and Museums – The Course.
This past semester I was the instructor for my favorite course – Applied Archaeology and Museums – a joint undergraduate and graduate class that usually enrolls 15-20 students. I developed the course a...
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Applied Archaeology and Museums: The Student Projects
I posted last week about the Applied Archaeology and Museums class I taught this past semester at the University of Memphis. Forty percent of the course grade is from the final project that students...
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