Staff
Director: Dr. Andrew Maske
Trained as an art historian, Dr. Maske served as curator of Japanese Art at the Peabody Essex Museum and has taught Asian art history at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Kentucky. His research interests include traditional and contemporary Asian ceramics, the history and practice of Japanese tea ceremony chanoyu, Japanese woodblock prints, the history of collecting and Japanese Edo period culture. Dr. Maske is also recruiting M.A. and Ph.D. students for the Graduate Certificate in Museum Practice.
Associate director: Dr. Megan McCullen
Associate director of the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology and director of the WSU Planetarium. Dr. McCullen's duties include oversight of the collections, NAGPRA compliance, museum researchers and volunteers, and day-to-day management of the facility. Dr. McCullen is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian with research interests in the protohistoric period of the Great Lakes region. Dr. McCullen has worked in museums since she was an undergraduate student and her research has been based on the analysis of archaeological collections curated at several museums across the Midwest. She has participated in excavations throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, along with projects in New Jersey and the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Affiliated faculty
Affiliated graduate students
- Gabriella Lloyd
- Gavin Baltes
Student volunteers and work-study employees
The bulk of work that happens in the museum is done by student employees and volunteers. To become a volunteer, contact GrosscupMuseum@wayne.edu.
If you're a Wayne State student who has accepted work-study as part of a federal financial aid package, you're also eligible to work at the museum. Please send an email with a résumé and evidence of your work-study eligibility.