Betty Lozano is the 2023 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During this spring semester, she continued examining a portion of the Milwaukee Public Museum’s South American aerophone collection which consists of 56 archaeological and ethnographic examples from Ecuador, Peru, … Continue Reading »
2022 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Katie Cianciola is the 2022 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. Over this summer, she continued examining a portion of the MPM’s Malcolm K. Whyte Collection which primarily consists of over 2,000 archaeological textiles, ceramics, metalwork, featherwork items from Peru. … Continue Reading »
2021 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Aislinn Sanders is the recipient of the Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award. This summer (2021), she began research on a collection of Thai silver bowls and boxes, dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, housed at the MPM. … Continue Reading »
2020 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Armando Manresa is the 2020 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. This semester (Spring 2020), he began working with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) collection of about 130 ceramic vessels that are fake, fraudulent, or reproductions from throughout Latin America. … Continue Reading »
2019 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Emma Eisner is the 2019 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During the 2019 Spring Semester, she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) collection from Chajul, El Quiche, Guatemala which includes 121 grave goods from Mound 10, Tomb 1. … Continue Reading »
2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Samantha Bomkamp is the 2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During the 2018 Spring Semester she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) Casas Grandes collection from Chihuahua, Mexico. While the collection includes a variety of items such as shell jewelry, ceramic vessels and figurines, an axe, spindle whorls, agates, and potsherds, Samantha’s research focused on over 80 of the whole, mostly whole, or reconstructed vessels that date between the Viejo and Tardio periods (700-1660 A.D.).… Continue Reading »
2017 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Victoria Pagel is the 2017 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. Her research is focused on the Milwaukee Public Museum’s German Silver brooch collection. The study collection includes brooches collected from Native Americans by Samuel Barrett and Alanson Skinner in the early 1900s during expeditions in New York, Wisconsin, and Mexico.… Continue Reading »
Maddie Poullette receives the Tinker and Ruggiero research awards
Maddie Poullette awarded two research grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. … Continue Reading »
2015 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Rebecca (Torgerson) Fetzer was the 2015 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. Through the fall she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s French Paleolithic faunal collection dating from approximately 70,000-10,000 years ago.… Continue Reading »