Participant Biographies

 

Haizea Barcenilla – Art History professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain)

 

Haizea Barcenilla (MFA Curating, Goldsmiths College, London; PhD in Art History, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz) is an Art History professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She lectures in Antique Art, Museum Studies and Contemporary Art. Her research areas revolve around Museum Studies, Curating and Contemporary Art from a gender perspective; she focuses on the creation of discourses through the encounter of art and the public, and on the construction of gaze. She has analysed the role of exhibitions when historisizing women artists ("Incluir o replantear: cómo exponer e historizar a las mujeres artistas", Boletín de Arte, 2014); she has reflected upon the gaze and the representation of the vulnerable through the concept of translucent strategies ("Rompe la ventana. Exposición y ocultación en Exhibition 19 de Señora Polaroiska" in La imagen translúcida en los mundos hispánicos, 2016; "Estrategias translúcidas y contraimágenes: romper con la representación hegemónica", Boletín de Arte, 2020). She has also studied ways of organizing the commons and thinking about cultural practices from feminist economics ("Exhibiting the commons. 
The case of Tensta Konsthall" in El desafío de exponer, 2015; "Repensar el museo desde la vida", Diferents, 2019). She supervises graduate students in these fields of study, and she Head Researcher in the project Desnortadas. Territorios del género en la creación artística contemporánea together with Maite Méndez from the University of Málaga. She has curated a number of exhibitions and regularly contributes art critic to Berria newspaper and the Amarauna program in Basque Radio.

 

Godwin Kornes – Research Associate, Museum Natur und Mensch, Freiburg

I studied social anthropology in Mainz and Uppsala with a focus on political

anthropology, memory studies and colonial history. Between 2010 and 2019, I worked as a

research associate and lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at

JGU Mainz. For my doctorate on national commemoration and the musealization of liberation history in postcolonial Namibia, I worked for 12 months at the National Museum of Namibia.

During this time, I did participant observation on the curation of the North Korean-built

Independence Memorial Museum in Windhoek. Since 2019, I am working at the Museum

Natur und Mensch in Freiburg in a project on the Brandeis collection, which is funded by the

German Lost Art Foundation.

Two recent publications on my project:

 

The ambivalence of gender: The collector, ethnographer and colonial women’s movement

activist, Antonie Brandeis. Boas Blogs, 10 May 2021, https://boasblogs.org/dcntr/the-

ambivalence-of-gender/

Zwischen Hamburg und Jaluit: die Sammlerin, Ethnographin und Kolonialaktivistin Antonie

Brandeis, geb. Ruete. Hamburgische Geschichten, 9 May 2021, https://hamburgische-

geschichten.de/2021/05/09/zwischen-hamburg-und-jaluit-die-sammlerin-ethnographin-und-kolonialaktivistin-antonie-brandeis-geb-ruete/

 

Cassie Davis Stroder - Collaborative PhD Student and former V&A curator (V&A and UAL)

Cassie Davies-Strodder worked as Curator of 20th and 21st century fashion at

the V&A from 2013-2017. In her current research role at the Museum she is

looking at women’s wardrobes of dress in the collections. Her exhibitions

include Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion (V&A, 2017 and Fashion Rules: Dress

from the collections of HM The Queen, Princess Margaret and Diana,

Princess of Wales (Kensington Palace,2013). Her publications include London

Society Fashion 1905-1925: The Wardrobe of Heather Firbank (V&A

Publishing 2015) and Modern Royal Fashion: Seven royal women and their

style (Historic Royal Palaces, 2015).

 

 

Alice Twemlow - Associate Professor PhDArts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University

Dr. Alice Twemlow is a Research Professor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), an Associate Professor at Leiden University and Professor in the Wim Crouwel Chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Twemlow’s research, at the intersection of design history, environmental humanities, literary studies and artistic research, explores such topics as: the relationship between geological time and design; walking, touching, and listening as research methods; salvage, digital waste and space junk.

With ‘Design and the Deep Future’, a long-term and collective project based at KABK, she aims to contribute alternative interpretations, interventions and imaginaries to climate justice research, and with ‘Pluriversal Practices’, she uses an intersectional data feminist approach to re-read and decolonize the graphic design archive.

Previously, Twemlow was head of the Master Department in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven and before that she was the chair of the MFA in Design Criticism and the MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has an MA and a Ph.D in History of Design from the program run jointly by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art in London, and her book, Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, was published by MIT Press in 2017.

 

 

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth - Curator, 17th and 18th Century Ceramics and Glass, Department of Decorative Art and Sculpture, V&A South Kensington 

 

Laura Scherling - Adjunct Associate Faculty and Instructor, Columbia University SPS and Teachers College

Designer, Researcher, Educator: Summary: 14+ years professional experience in visual design, user experience, marketing and advertising, with 7+ years of teaching experience. Specializing in qualitative and quantitative research, user experience research (UX), interactive design projects and user interface design, publication design, graphic design and visual arts, social impact design, management, and writing for research, grants, presentations.

 

James E. Housefield - Associate Professor, Department of Design Affiliated Faculty, Art History Program, University of California

 

Sanne Rossel – MA student, Leiden University. Student Assistant, Museums, Collections and Society

 

Emma Gleadhill - National Research Assessments Coordinator, Research Services, Macquarie University

I am a social and cultural historian based in Sydney, Australia. My research interests are in

gender, material culture and travel. My work uses a methodology which is informed by

material culture, literary and design theory, tourism studies and the influential work of

thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Susan Stewart to provide new perspectives on the history

of the travel souvenir.

 

I am currently working on my first academic monograph Taking Travel Home: the souvenir

material culture of British women tourists, 1770-1830, which will be published by

Manchester University Press in their “Gender in History” series in March 2022. This book

provides a historic analysis of the lived relationship between British women tourists and the

objects they brought home during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Ultimately, it argues that the rise of the souvenir during the period is representative of female agency, as women used their souvenirs to form spaces in which they could create and control their own travel narratives.

 

 

Emmet Jackson – PhD Candidate, Exeter University

 

Lucy Wray - PhD Candidate, School of HAPP, Queen's University, Belfast.

Lucy Wray is a PhD candidate researching the social and cultural history of nineteenth and

twentieth-century Ireland, through photography. Her thesis centres on the work of Belfast

photographer Alexander Hogg (1870-1939), exploring representations of everyday life in the

city. As well as urban history, Lucy’s research concerns class, poverty, philanthropy and

consumption.

During her PhD, Lucy has acquired placements with the British Library, London (2020) and

National Museums Northern Ireland (2021), working with their respective photographic

collections.

 

 

 

Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Associate Professor, Lebanese American University, currently Visiting Professor at Bilkent University

Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate Professor of Art and Design History at the Lebanese

American University in Beirut. She is currently Visiting Professor at Bilkent University in

Turkey. She holds a PhD in Art History and Communication Studies from McGill University.

Her interdisciplinary research cuts across the fields of visual culture, gender politics,

photography and design history with a focus on Lebanon and the Middle East. 

She is the author of Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs (2020), Saloua Raouda Choucair:

Modern Arab Design (2019), Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry (2017), and

Hilmi el-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture (2014). Nachabe Taan is on the advisory board for the Design & Culture journal.

 

 

 

Ian Trumble - Curator of Archaeology, Egyptology and World Cultures, Bolton Library & Museum Services

 

Anne Griffiths

I am a collector, artist and will tentatively describe myself as an historian as I am currently at the start of a PhD which combines a History thesis with an exhibition of Fine Art.

 

As an artist, my practice is grounded in the museological processes of collection, taxonomy, restoration and display. As the boundaries of a traditional museum space become increasingly blurred with the art gallery or the shop window and personal collections are built on pinterest, I am increasingly interested in how objects are situated to build ambiguous connections and illusions of truth. In curating collections, I celebrate the modest, mundane, imperfect or impermanent and use traditional techniques such as the Japanese craft of Kintsugi or the Victorian art of taxidermy to make connections between objects, times and cultures. In The Taxonomy of Cornflakes (2018) my ambition was to reflect the passion of the lepidopterist or entomologist in their quest to collect and display the multitude of different specimens that combine to define the order of butterflies or insects.

 

My historical interest is in the Age of Enlightenment, a period of turmoil and uncertainty when colonial expansion introduced new territories, peoples and customs alongside ‘exotic’ fauna and flora to the European. Alongside this expansion, medical and industrial progress resulted in the questioning of long held classical beliefs. The working title of my thesis, Through the Phallic Eyeglass: How Linnaean Botanical Taxonomy Informed Conversation Between the Plant Body and Feminine Culture, investigates how Linnaeus’s ordering of the vegetable kingdom sought to build on military rank and patriarchal notions of family, order and nation. I am investigating how, through prioritising the male stamen over the female pistil, this hierarchy was reflected in the collections, dress and pastimes of elite eighteenth-century women.

I am keen to progress and enhance the relationship between the rigour of written research with the visual offerings of the artist. In previous work such as Man and Brother (2019), which took the form of an art installation and written essay, my aim was to portray the ambiguous relationship between the anti-slaverycampaigner Josiah Wedgwood and sugar. I am interested in pursuing these ideas further through publications, talks or exhibitions.

Website: www.annegriffiths.com

Email: anne@annegriffiths.com

 

 

Leore Joanne Green - PhD candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

 

Lorena Zomer - Arapoti, Brazil

 

Fatima Abbadi Textile - Research Centre, Leiden

Freelance photographer, embroiderer and a researcher of the Jordanian and Palestinian traditional dress.

 

Fiona Maxwell – PhD candidate, University of Chicago

Fiona Maxwell is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago, a public historian,

and a theatre artist and educator. Her dissertation explores the ways in which volunteers and participants at Progressive Era Chicago settlement houses used the spoken arts to bridge social boundaries and develop a collaborative approach to democracy. She is the Director of Museum Operations and Communications at the Center for Women’s History and Leadership’s Frances Willard House Museum and has worked on public history projects with the David Rubenstein Forum and Newberry Library. She also teaches youth improv and storytelling at the Piven Theatre Workshop, coaches University of Chicago graduate students in public speaking as a GRADTalk consultant, and performs in storytelling venues across the Chicago area. She received a BA in History and Theatre from Northwestern University and a MA from the University of Chicago.

 

Juilee Decker - Professor of History, Director of Museum Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology

In 2018, I undertook an initiative to center articles about women and collections in the peer-reviewed journal that I oversee: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. Over two issues of the journal (https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cjx/14/3

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cjxa/14/4), sixteen articles identified the ways in which women have left their mark in a number of other fields.

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