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.
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
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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