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Internship Spotlight – Taylor Schoenfeld

This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Taylor Schoenfeld (’24) reflects on his experience working with Zachary Stocks (’14), Executive Director of Oregon Black Pioneers, to re-house their collection. Recently I completed an internship with the Oregon Black Pioneers. I worked with Executive Director Zachary Stocks on a full museum collection move and inventory project. Going into the internship my learning goals were to set new professional collections standards, ensure OBP property and data are…

Internship Spotlight – Ella Rubenstein

This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with students about their internship experiences. The interview reflects on what the student has learned from the experience and any advice they’d give to individuals looking for internships. Our next spotlight is with Ella Rubenstein, a second-year UW Museology Student.   What organization are you interning with? Can you tell me what you are doing for your internship? I’m interning at the Burke Museum of Natural…

Internship Spotlight – Grace Liatti

This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with students about their internship experiences. The interview reflects on what the student has learned from the experience and any advice they’d give to individuals looking for internships. Our next spotlight is with Grace Liatti, a first-year UW Museology Student.   What organization are you interning with? Can you tell me what you are doing for your internship? I’m currently in the throes of a 6-month…

Course Highlight: Museums, Health, and Wellbeing Seminar

For this Winter Quarter 2023 Course Highlight, we were excited to speak with students participating in Jessica Luke‘s new seminar: Museums, Health, and Wellbeing. This seminar explores the role that museums can play in public health, in particular in fostering positive social and emotional well-being. This course is structured as a 5-part seminar, addressing wellbeing theory, practice, research, measures, and contexts. We sat down mid-way through the quarter with Cristal Seda Santiago, Hannah Sutton, and Sarah Smith to discuss their…

Alumni Spotlight: Danielle Sakowski (2020)

This post is part of our Alumni Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Danielle Sakowski (Class of 2020) about her path through Museology and where it has taken her since.   What originally drew you the Museology program?  Like a lot of museum people, I had some foundational experiences with museums early on where I would visit museums, often through school programs. I had this incredible sense of awe at humanity, and felt an inspiration to learn in…

Internship Spotlight – Liam Patrick Bryant

This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with students who have completed internship positions. The interview reflects on what the student learned from the experience and any advice they’d give to individuals looking for internships. Our next spotlight is with Liam Patrick Bryant, a second year UW Museology Student.   What organization did you intern with? Can you tell me what you did in your internship? I interned with Denshō, where I worked with…

Internship Spotlight – Wren Thompson

This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with students who have completed internship positions. The interview reflects on what the student learned from the experience and any advice they’d give to individuals looking for internships. Our next spotlight is with Wren Thompson, a second year UW Museology Student.   What organization did you intern with? Can you tell me what you did in your internship? I interned this past summer with Foundry10 as a…

Faculty Spotlight: Lane Eagles

This post is part of the Museology Faculty spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with our faculty to discuss and reflect on inclusive teaching, some of their course highlights, and their lives outside the classroom. Our next spotlight is with Lane Eagles, who teaches Introduction to Museology and Exhibition Development courses, along with being one of the program’s three thesis advisors. Her responses are below:   Our program is grounded in the belief that museums can make the world…