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.
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’
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
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
Research Interests
Andean archaeology, preservation issues of cultural heritage sites, landscape archaeology, GIS, digital archaeology (3D modeling, 3D reconstruction), aerial archaeology.
PhD Thesis
Exploring the Chronological and Social Occupation of Tambo Colorado, Pisco Valley, Peru.
Research Interests
Anthropology of photography; anthropology of art; visual anthropology; history of photography; photographic practices; gender and queer studies; archive; material culture; art and agency; biographies; representation; theory and practice.
PhD Thesis
What does lesbian photography do? An ethnographic inquiry into the construction of photography, genders and sexualities among lesbian and queer communities of New York City from the 1970s until the present”. (Working title)
Research Interests
Oceanic art and material culture, especially Papua New Guinea and Australia, and body adornment, museum anthropology, collecting and history of collections, representation and contemporary Pacific art
PhD Thesis
Collecting south-east New Guinea: 'ornaments' and body adornments in UK museums
Research Interest
Museum collections and archives, Hawaiian language archives, maritime trade, ninteenth-century Hawaiʻi, barkcloth (kapa), fashion studies
PhD Thesis
Kapukapu: Self-fashioning and Creativity in Nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi
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
