Academic background
Visiting Scholar (2007, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France) Post-Doctoral Fellow (2004 - 2006, Universidade de São Paulo) PhD in Social Anthropology (2004, Universidade de São Paulo) MPhil in Social Anthropology (1999, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) BA in Museology (1996, Universidade Federal da Bahia)
General Research Interests
Anthropology of South American Indians, Anthropology of Art, Ritual and Cosmology, Visual Anthropology, Museum Anthropology, Ethnographic Collections
Academic Background
BSc Archaeology (2006) UCL; Graduate Attachee (2006) British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kenya; MA African Archaeology (2007) UCL; PhD Archaeology (2011) University of York; Marine Archaeologist (2013 – 2015), UHI.
General Research Interests
Maritime Archaeology; Archaeomalacology; Island Archaeology; The social context of maritime practices; Archaeological expressions of maritime identities; Indian Ocean maritime trade networks; Social values of landscape and material culture; Marine geophysics; History and archaeology of the submerged remains from the First and Second World Wars.
Academic background
BA (1995), Oxford; MA (1998), University College London; DPhil (2002), Oxford; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2005 Hertford College, Oxford; Lecturer in Archaeology 2006-2007, University of Newcastle
General Research Interests
African archaeology, ceramic analysis, construction of value, coastlines, trade/traders, medieval empires
Academic Background
BA (1996); MA Art history (non-western art) (1998), University of Ghent, Belgium; MA ‘Advanced studies in the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas’ (2000), Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia; PhD Art and Anthropology (2004), University of East Anglia; Post-doctoral research associate, University of East Anglia (2005-2009)
General Research Interests
Collecting and history of collections, representation and museum ethnography, auctions and the art market, cultural festivals, politics of clothing, contemporary Pacific art
Academic Background
BA (1971) Social Anthropology; MA The History of Ideas, both University of Sussex (1972); D.Phil Merton College University Oxford (1975); Research Assistant, Assistant Keeper, Keeper Department of Ethnography British Museum (1976-2004); Professor of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia (2004-present)
General Research Interests
African arts and cultures (especially East Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands, the Congo area, West African coastal cultures), thematic approaches to art (eg to memory, miniaturisation, funerary arts, maritime cultures, the contemporary), museum and heritage collections and practice.
