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
Missionaries, Education, children, history of collections, museums, propaganda, The British Empire, colonialism, nationalism, religion, Imagination, Adventure writing, Maritime history
PhD Thesis
Voyagers All? The Historic Role of Missionary Societies in Shaping Children’s Understandings of Britain’s Place in The World
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
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
