MSU Museum Welcomes Visiting Scholar Aleia Brown

Photo courtesy of Aleia Brown

The Michigan State University Museum welcomes Aleia Brown, a Middle Tennessee State University doctoral student in public history who recently started a 9 month residency as a visiting scholar at the MSU. She was formerly a curator at the National Afro-American Museum in Wilberforce, Ohio, and is part of a national cohort group leading a very important web blog and twitter chats on museum responses to Ferguson. Click here for more information.

At the MSU Museum, Aleia will be engaged in a number of research, administrative, and educational activities affiliated with folklife and history. One collections-based activity will focus on cataloguing the recent donation of the Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi/Women of Color Quilters Network collection, as well as conducting interviews with key quilt artists who make work addressing civil and human rights.