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Dawn Scher Thomae

  • Curator of Anthropology Collections, Milwaukee Public Museum

Education

  • MS, Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee
  • BA, Anthropology and Museum Studies, Beloit College

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 720 - History and Theory of Museums
  • ANTH 722 - Museum Exhibit Practicum

Research Interests

  • Material Culture of the Americas
  • Museum Studies
  • Indigenous weaponry

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.