UNCW Material Culture is a campus-wide initiative designed to foster the study of material culture among faculty, students, and the Wilmington community. Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field and scholarly method that acknowledges the roles of objects in constituting and transforming societies. This initiative is sponsored by an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series (IRSS) grant from UNCW’s Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization.
Please join our seminar series “The Material Culture of Racial Justice and Healthcare Equity.” Fall 2021 focuses on objects and racial justice. Spring 2022 examines objects and healthcareequity. Each semester includes roundtables, lunches, lectures, and community engagement events for UNCW faculty, students, and the Wilmington community. This seminar series engages how objects construct and deconstruct racial justice and healthcare equity to better understand how our past and present relationships with objects inform our worldviews, politics, medicines, media, and religious practices.
The goals of UNCW Material Culture are to:
If you would like to be added to our e-mail list, please contact Jamie Brummitt (brummittj@uncw.edu).