Summertime!
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…
21st Anniversary Celebration
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.…
National Museum of American History
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…
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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…
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH)
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…
National Portrait Gallery
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…
Museum Seminars are Underway!
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,…
Showcase celebrates work of SFF2017!
On February 22, the members of the 2017 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship presented their work to the greater college community. This marked the culmination of their year long fellowship, and allowed each to showcase the work they had done with their…
The 2018 Fellowship is underway!
On January 25, 2017 the new 2018 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows met for the first time. They were greeted by Sara Ducey, Director, Paul Peck Humanities Institute who welcomed them to the program. Following introductions by each of the Fellows, Mimi…
Announcing the 2018 Smithsonian Faculty Fellows!!!!
Psst… the word is out! We have a great new SFF Cohort for 2018 and our theme, “We the People: America’s Grand and Radical Experiment with Democracy”. As expected, we had a large group of strong applicants for this theme.…