Mark Auslander
My blogs
- Art Beyond Quarantine
- MuseEd: Teaching and Learning in Museums
- Celebrating Joe Auslander's 90th
- Cultural Environments
- Remembering Ruth Auslander 1932-2014
- Friends of Shady Acres
- Cultural Productions
- Geospatial Central Washington University
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | University Museum Director & Professor |
| Location | Concord, MA, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a sociocultural anthropologist with research interests in Africa and the African diaspora; museums and memory work; ritual and globalization; community conservation and social adaptation to environmental transformation; public art and popular aesthetics in comparative perspective including, at the present moment, artistic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. I have directed the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Michigan. and the Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. I'm the author of the book, "The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family" (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2011) |
| Interests | Science, environment, ans society: Contemporary art, African art, sociocultural anthropology, race and reenactment, ritual and performance theory |
| Favorite Movies | Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau) |
| Favorite Books | J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Ursula LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea; C.S |