Britt Baillie
Mphil dissertation: Angkor Wat: Conserving the sacred? A relationship between
heritage management and Buddhism
PhD thesis: The Wounded Church - War, Destruction and Reconstruction of
Vukovar's Religious Heritage
Home page: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~bab30/
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36904530
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I am currently a Post Doctoral Research Associate on the Conflict in Cities and
the Contested State project, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
where I am exploring the role of heritage in the landscaping of Jerusalem. I am
also the Director of Studies for Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse and
one of the Co-Organisers of the Cambridge Heritage Research Group.
Ann Inscker
Mphil Dissertation: 'The Ethics of Displaying Human Remains.'
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Current position - I have been at Nottingham City Museums & Galleries for 11
years, starting as the Manager History & Archaeology Team, then becoming the
Collections Manager Archaeology, History & Natural Sciences and finally,
following an amalgamation of the Collections and Learning and Engagement
Team's at the end of last year, I opted not to go for the joint manager's post, as I
would no longer have a collection or volunteers, something I was not prepared to
give up just yet. As a result, I am now the Collections Access Officer Archaeology
& Industry, the new name for keepers which helps the councillors to understand
what we do. I am also currently on the East Midlands Museums executive board,
running the Practitioners' Panel sessions and on the executive board of
Nottingham University Museum.
Krysta Ryzewski
Mphil Dissertation: “Changing Values in the International Auction Market in
Antiquities: A quantitative analysis of the London and New York markets over
the past 50 years”.
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After graduating Cambridge I completed my PhD in Anthropology at Brown
University (2008), where my focus was on both historical archaeology and
archaeometallurgy (although I also remained actively involved in archaeological
ethics and community archaeology throughout). I then completed a three-year
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology and Engineering at the Joukowsky
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown (2008-2011). I am
now an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit.
I am currently working on a survey and landscape archaeology project on the
Caribbean island of Montserrat, a historic plantation site in Rhode Island, and a
3-D imaging project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In Detroit I am one of two
faculty spearheading a new "Anthropology of the City" initiative. All of these
projects involve major heritage outreach, education, and training components.
Some links to my faculty and research project pages:
http://www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/ryzewski
http://wayne.academia.edu/KrystaRyzewski
http://proteus.brown.edu/montserratarchaeology/Home
Laura McAtackney
http://www.ucd.ie/johnhume/thematicareas/profiles/postdoctoral/mcatackney
_laura.html
MPhil Dissertation: 'Presentation of shared heritage: the case
of Northern Ireland'
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Since being at Cambridge I have been an archivist at the Public Record Office of
Northern Ireland (2003-4). I did a PhD in historical archaeology ('An historical
archaeology of political imprisonment: Long Kesh/Maze prison, Northern
Ireland') from 2004- Feb 2008 and I have been the Professional Archaeology
Programme Planner (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
- Maternity Cover), Mar - Dec 2008. I had a short post-doc at the Pitt-Rivers
Museum, University of Oxford on the 'Ecologies of Heritage' Project (Mar- Aug
2009). From January 2010-12 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the John Hume
Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin.
Jamie Hampson
Mphil dissertation: Rock art regionalism and identity: case studies from TransPecos Texas and Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
jh431@cam.ac.uk
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Jamie Hampson is a Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research, a Research Fellow at the Rock Art Research Institute
(Johannesburg), and a Research Associate at Sul Ross State University (Texas).
He currently supervises and lectures in the Division of Archaeology (University of
Cambridge), and works on rock art, identity, and visual heritage projects in
southern Africa and the Greater Southwest USA.
Mads Dahl Gjefsen
Mphil dissertation: "Learning from history: The projection of meaning in a
Holocaust museum" (2008).”
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I am currently a doctoral student at the University of Oslo and a Fellow at
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Program on
Science, Technology and Society, where I work on discourses, policy and
regulation of carbon dioxide capture and storage in Europe and the United
States. My profile page is here:
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/fellows/gjefsen.html
Kara Blackmore
Update:
My most recent work has been in and around Murchison Falls National Park
working as a Curator for an educational NGO. The exhibition Murchison
Memories: History of a National Park is now on display in Uganda.
Assimina Kaniari (D.Phil, Oxford)
Elected Member of Faculty, Department of Art History and Theory, Athens
School of Fine Arts
Assimina Kaniari received her doctorate from the Department of Art
History, University of Oxford working under Martin Kemp on connections
between art and science in the 19th century. Between 2006 and 2010 she was
Academic Visitor to the same Department and member of History Faculty. She
researched and taught on aspects of 19th century and 20th art with particular
relevance to historiographic and methodological problems connected to the
location of vision, perspective and visual order in 20th century art historical
writing and art after 1930s.
Since November 2009 she is an elected Faculty Member at the Department of Art
History and Theory of the Athens School of Fine Arts where she lectures on the
Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art.
In September 2009 she held one of the Scaliger Fellowships at the University of
Leiden looking at connections between Dutch photography and the European
avant-garde art scene. In 2010 she was invited to participate in the international
panel of experts of the Visual Culture and Evolution symposium organized by the
National Academy of Sciences (USA) which has recently come out in published
form. She has co-edited Acts of Seeing. Artists, scientists and the history of the
visual. A volume dedicated to Martin Kemp (Zidane Press, 2009), the Festschrift
volume dedicated to Martin Kemp, third Professor of Art History at the
University of Oxford and currently Emeritus Professor at the same Department.
She was also one of the contributing authors to the Sir John Evans Centenary
research project volume, edited by Arthur MacGregor and hosted by the
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, with an essay considering Evans’s
drawings as aesthetic objects and epistemological things: ‘Evans’s Sketches from
the Human Antiquity Controversy: Epistemological Proxies in the Making’, in
Arthur MacGregor (ed.), Sir John Evans 1823-1908: Antiquity, Commerce and
Natural Science in the Age of Darwin (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2008), pp.
257-280.
Assimina is an alumni of the M.Phil in Archaeology programme (option
Archaeological Heritage and Museums) of the University of Cambridge (her
M.Phil thesis concentrated on Contemporary artists' appropriations of
Archaeology and was supervised by Colin Renfrew) and holds a BA in
Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art from TEI Athens.
Lina G. Tahan
Lina G. Tahan is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Tourism
and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University where she previously was a
Senior Research Fellow. She is a board member of the International Council for
Museology (ICOFOM) and a member of the working group of the Cross Cultural
Task Force within the International Council of Museums (ICOM), mainly
working for promoting museums in the Arab world.
Her research and teaching interests relate to: (1) the role of the archaeologist and
the museologist in tourism development; (2) the representation issues within
Middle Eastern museums collections, exhibitions and visitors; (3) the history of
collections and museum development in Lebanon within the political and
colonial contexts; (4) the definition of heritage in Lebanon and how this links to
identity formation and the creation of a sense of place; (5) the role of museums in
fostering understanding in divided societies.
M.Phil. Dissertation title: The Role of the Museums in the Lebanon in the
Twenty-First Century. Completed in 1999 and awarded in 2000.
Ph.D. Thesis title: Archaeological Museums in Lebanon: A Stage for Colonial
and Post-Colonial Allegories. Completed and awarded in 2004.