The awards just keep coming for SOAN faculty, and Professor Mary Moran was recognized with the 2016 Colgate Alumni Corporation Distinguished Teaching Award. Awarded each year to recognize “on behalf of all Colgate alumni, outstanding teachers at the university,” this most recent award follows the AAUP Professor of the Year award that Professor Moran won in 2014. Congratulations, Professor Moran, for your dedication to teaching and lasting impact on Colgate students!
Professor Mary Moran with an African mask from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology.
Professor Moran also spoke recently at the gallery opening for an exhibit featuring African art, curated in collaboration with Christy DeLair, Curator of Colgate’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology, and students from Professor Moran’s Spring 2016 course, “Introduction to African Studies.” The exhibition, entitled, “Opening the Africa Collection,” features works from the Longyear’s extensive collections of African art and is intended to convey some of the conceptual, ethical, and practical challenges involved with representing culture through material artifacts. Using an “open storage” model, the exhibition includes a wide range of materials from the African collection, and provides the viewer with a sense of the scope and variety of African material culture. The exhibition is open through June 5, 2016—please visit the Longyear Gallery in Alumni Hall!
Professor Moran and Longyear Curator Christy DeLair speak with a visitor to the “Opening the Africa Collection” exhibit
Professor Moran speaks with a group of students at the exhibition opening.
The exhibition will be open through June 5, 2016 in the Longyear Museum gallery in Colgate’s Alumni Hall.
Photo credits: Longyear Museum of Anthropology; thanks to Christy DeLair, curator.