Ava Caizzo '26 working during her APEX Fellowship

APEX fellowship gives anthropology and art history major hands-on museum experience

Ava Caizzo ’26, an anthropology and art history major and music minor completing the museum and archival studies pathway, wanted to get real-world experience […]

Along with Henry McMahon ’24 (far right), students from the left Teagan Knutson ’25, Sydney Berenson ’25, also worked on site with Olivia Navarro-Farr (center right), associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at the College and co-director of the Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’ (PAW) team at the archaeological site located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park within the Maya Biosphere Reserve in summer 2024. Here, the group from Wooster stands at the front of the trail leading to the Mirador Group, consisting of the two of the largest pyramids at the site.

Archaeology major draws conclusions about Maya political systems based on excavation on site in Guatemala

Archaeology major Henry McMahon spent the summer before his senior year at The College of Wooster in Guatemala surveying an ancient plaza inside El […]

Anthropology major explores cultural heritage preservation of African Americans cemeteries

Troy Johnson ’24 grew up hearing stories from her grandparents about African American cemeteries and their importance beyond being burial sites, and her senior […]

Floreska stands outside the Long Island Children’s Museum.

Music alumna builds community as museum president

In her position as president of the Long Island Children’s Museum (LICM), Erika (Fischer) Floreska ’93 works on a wide range of projects, but […]

Katie Love '24

Art history major brushes up on art conservation skills during APEX Fellowship

Katie Love ’24, an art history major at The College of Wooster, landed an APEX Fellowship with the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) in Cleveland, […]

Professor Sobeck, pictured here with Aidan Burd ’26, engaged the class in regular reflections connecting their lab work to preservation and the study of cultural heritage.

Chemistry Lab students learn art of conservation

Exploring the chemistry in art led some students at The College of Wooster this spring to create pigments, see up close the properties of […]

Students, Emily Voneman '25 and Maura Ellenberger '25 review items in the collection from Pella.

Pella @ Wooster ushers ancient artifacts collection into 21st Century

A group of faculty and students at The College of Wooster is bringing new life and visibility to a collection of ancient artifacts that […]

Egyptian Mummy

The College of Wooster Art Museum hosts event on the collection’s Egyptian mummy

The College of Wooster Art Museum is hosting an event called “IN CONTEXT: The Wooster Mummy” on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in Lean […]

Hudson Davis '24

Geology major gains scientific skills in paleontology internship 

After volunteering with the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Hudson Davis ’24, a geology major at The College of Wooster, knew he wanted to […]

Jade Robison ’16

Archaeologist Jade Robison ’16 protects the past so stories can be told for future generations

Jade Robison’s work as an archaeologist at the National Park Service’s Tonto National Monument in Arizona, with 100 active archaeological sites, is most definitely […]

Sara Artes '03

Anthropology alumna expands public knowledge of underrepresented stories

Sara Artes ’03 oversees the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling cultural and historical exhibitions

Sarah Coffin '10

Sarah Coffin ’10

From Wooster to Fenway: A Public Historian’s Journey