Oceania - Sainsbury Research Unit

SRU Oceania People

Heather DonoghuePhD Candidate
Emailh.donoghue@uea.ac.uk
Region of Interest Oceania
Research Interests Art and anthropology of Melanesia and the Pacific more generally; history of collections; museum ethnography.
PhD Thesis Material Biographies: Agency, Identity and Meanings in the Collections from the Cooke Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-4.
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Katrina IgglesdenPhD Candidate
EmailK.Igglesden@uea.ac.uk
Region of Interest Oceania
PhD Thesis Traditionally contemporary?: the transformation of meaning, use and significance of Fijian barkcloth, 1800 to present
Education MPhil University of Cambridge
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Karen JacobsLecturer in the Arts of the Pacific
EmailK.Jacobs@uea.ac.uk
Tel0044 (0)1603 592747
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
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Rachael MurphyPhD Candidate
Emailr.murphy@uea.ac.uk
Region of Interest Oceania
Research Interests Contemporary Australian art; contemporary art theory; museum ethnography; photography and new media; contemporary art worlds; the new museology and its legacies.
PhD Thesis Indigenous Australia in the UK
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Amelie RoussillonPhD Candidate
EmailA.Roussillon@uea.ac.uk
Region of Interest Oceania
Research Interests Arts and anthropology of Oceania; history of collections; museum ethnography; archives; museum practice
PhD Thesis From Papua New Guinea to European museums: revaluation of the trajectories of Abelam collections (working title)
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Caroline van-SantenPhD Candidate
Emailc.van-santen@uea.ac.uk
Region of Interest Oceania
Research Interests Polynesian history and cultures, contact history, ethnohistory, material culture studies, museum ethnography, object histories, present-day artisans and artists
PhD Thesis Dutch visitors on Nuku Hiva, 1825: a contact history and material culture study
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