This was a bumper year for applications for the Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, and the Committee charged with selecting the new group of fellows deliberated long and hard . With a limited number of spots avaiable, and a record number of…
We are re delighted to announce the theme for the 2019 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship! Is this your year to apply???? THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN IDENTITY: BUILDING A NATION TOGETHER What do you say if asked: Who is an American? What does an American…
Mimi and I have been busy working in two directions: 1) getting ready for our fall meetings with our 2018 SFF Cohort when they will be implementing their projects with their students and 2) developing the theme for 2019. The…
On a beautiful Spring day in May, we had our annual celebration of the Montgomery College-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship at the Smithsonian Castle. Current and past Fellows, curators, Smithsonian staff, and friends were on hand to celebrate this highly successful partnership.…
Our last museum seminar took place on April 19, and as usual, our series ended in stellar fashion as Dr. David Penney, Associate Director of Museum Scholarship, Dr. David Hirsch, Researcher, and Colleen Call Smith, Education Specialist, guided the group…
On April 12 the Fellows traveled to the National Museum of American History (NMAH) for a very special afternoon. As has been our good fortune for the last 20 years, Harry Rubenstein, Curator, Division of Political History, was our guide…
April 5 found our group at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) where our topic for the afternoon was "Using Technology to Explore Our Nation's Difficult Past". The afternoon began with Dr. Rex Ellis, Associate Director…
After a gap in our museum trips due to Spring Break and SNOW(!), the Fellows were eager for our trip to the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH). The topic for this seminar was The Social Power of…
After last week's fabulous opening panel, the Fellows were looking forward to our trip to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), and our seminar, The Democratization of Portraiture: Prints and Drawings of all the People by the People. Following a brief introduction by…
The 21st year of the Montgomery College-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship got off to a rousing start on March 1. This year’s opening panel took place at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), a fitting place to kick off our theme,…