SRU Africa People
Annalisa Christie
- Annalisa ChristiePostdoctoral Researcher: Cowrie Shells: An Early Global Commodity Project
- EmailA.Christie@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044(0)1603 592642
- 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.
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Catherine Elliott
- Catherine ElliottPhD Candidate
- Emailcatherine.elliott@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Africa
- Research Interests The art of Southern Africa and more generally of Africa; museum collections; the history of collecting; ethnography; archive; provenance; biographies; international exhibitions; representation; colonialism; South African history; early photography; materiality; agency; the art market.
- PhD Thesis 'Recovering the indigenous presence from the colonial archive: the South Africa collection at the British Museum’
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Craig Halliday
- Craig HallidayPhD Candidate
- Emailcraig.halliday@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Africa
- Research Interests Contemporary art from Africa, art and social change, culture and development.
- PhD Thesis Culture and democratisation in Kenya: the visual arts in Nairobi since 1980
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Rosalie Hans
- Rosalie HansPhD candidate
- Emailr.hans@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Africa
- Research Interests Museology, museums in Africa, culture and development, museum ethnography, world heritage, contemporary African art, community museums, museums and identity.
- PhD Thesis Emerging Models in Contemporary African Museums
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Anne Haour
- Anne HaourProfessor in the Arts and Archaeology of Africa
- Emaila.haour@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 591006
- 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
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Shiura Jaufar
- Shiura JaufarPhD Candidate
- Emails.jaufar@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Africa
- Research Interests History and archaeology of Maldives, Indian Ocean trade, Pottery, culture Heritage of Maldives, World Heritage, Islamic Archaeology, Maritime archaeology.
- PhD Thesis An Archaeological Study of the Maldive Islands: Investigating the Islamic Period Settlements
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Amy King
- Amy KingResearch Student
- EmailAmelia.King@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Africa
- Research Interests The art of Central Africa; colonial histories of the DR Congo; histories of Christianity; ethnography, collecting and early photographic practices; missionary projects in Central Africa, materiality and exchange; museum collections and archives
- PhD Thesis Collecting the Congo: Histories of exchange in Baptist Missions c.1885 – 1915
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John Mack
- John MackProfessor of World Art Studies
- Emailjohn.mack@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 592463
- 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.
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Sonja Magnavita
- Sonja MagnavitaResearch Associate - African Archaeology
- Academic background PhD Goethe Universitat Frankfurt
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Sam Nixon
- Sam NixonResearch Associate - African Archaeology
- Emailsam.nixon@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044(0)1603 597502
- Academic background BA History of Art (1998) UCL; MA Archaeology (2002) UCL; PhD Archaeology (2008) UCL
- Research Interests Long-distance exchange networks and ‘culture contact’ in the pre-modern world; trading societies and trading networks; medieval West Africa and the Sahara; trans-Saharan trade and early West African gold trade; early African architecture.
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Chris Wingfield
- Chris WingfieldSenior Lecturer in the Arts of Africa
- EmailChris.Wingfield@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 593756
- Academic Background BA Archaeology & Anthropology (2000); MPhil Material Anthropology & Museum Ethnography (2002), University of Oxford; PhD (2012), University of Birmingham. Curator, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (2004-2006); Researcher, Pitt Rivers Museum (2006-2009); Associate Lecturer, Open University (2009-2013); Senior Curator, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge (2012-2018).
- General Research Interests Museum collections, Art and material culture, Southern Africa, Missionary Heritage
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Selected African objects in the Sainsbury Centre
Mask. West Africa, Ivory Coast or Liberia: We. Late 19th/early 20th century. h. 21.6 cm. UEA 211
Reliquary head. Central Africa, Gabon: Fang. Late 19th/early 20th century. h 26.0 cm. UEA 240
SRU Africa News & Events
MA Scholarships
MA Scholarships on offer for study commencing Sept 2019.
The end result of seven years work
New publication received.
Visiting Fellowship applications
Visiting fellowship application
Heritage of the Western Indian Ocean
Workshop at the SRU, 10-11 May, Sainsbury Centre
SRU Vacancy in the Arts of Africa
SRU vacancy for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Arts of Africa
Conferences and Projects
Appropriating the Exotic
This symposium provided the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary study of the appropriation of the exotic in art and material culture as a cultural and material practice.
Ancient and Modern
A symposium with Professor Nelson Graburn, which examined the issues involved in displaying and caring for historical and contemporary ethnographic material.
Image, Word, Music
A Symposium at the SRU, Nov 2009. The aim of this symposium was to create a dialogue at the crossroads of art and religion.
Hausa Identity
Research network which explored the notion of Hausa Identity through anthropological, historical, art-historical, linguistic, archaeological and museological perspectives
West African Pottery Research Network
Focussing on pottery of the Sahara-Sahel borderlands, this research network linked scholars from Europe, Africa and the USA. Its aim was to help improve our identification of different methods of...