Texts for the course (obtain as soon as you can or after the first class)

Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto (eds.), Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006)

Bettina Messias Carbonell (ed.), Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012).

Other readings will be provided through Canvas or journals available via the library catalog.

You may want to acquire the following two classic texts, but they are not required:

Ivan Karp, et al. (eds.). Exhibiting Cultures (Washington: Smithsonian, 1991).

Ivan Karp, et al. (eds). Museums and Communities (Washington:, Smithsonian, 1992).