Thursday, November 01, 2012

Introducing the New Editorial Board

Please join us in welcoming to the Museum Anthropology journal and its readership the new Editorial Board.  Many thanks to those who have served in this capacity in the past. We look forward to working with the new board and thank them in advance for their service to the journal and its readers.  We have provided a brief introduction below.
 


Editorial Board Members

Kathleen M. Adams (US)
Professor at Loyola University of Chicago &
Adjunct Curator of Southeast Asian Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History
Research Focus: Indonesia and California


Sven Haakanson, Jr. (Alutiiq; US)
Anthropologist and  Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska
Research Focus: Alutiiq language, culture and artifacts; 2007 MacArthur Fellow


Marie Mauzé  (France)
Senior Researcher, CNRS at Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale in Paris
Research Focus: Northwest Coast


Carole Mayer (Canada)
Head of Curatorial Department at UBC Museum of Anthropology &
Associate member of the Department of Anthropology
Research Focus: Oceania, critical curatorship, and museum anthropology



Ann McMullen (US)
Curator & Head of Collections Research and Documentation at the National Museum of the American Indian
Research Focus: Native North America, material culture, museum anthropology


Steve Nash (US)
Anthropology Department Chair & Curator of Archaeology at Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Research Focus: Southwest Archaeology, history of museums


Tey Marianna Nunn (Latina; US)
Director of the Art Museum and The Visual arts Program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque
Research focus: U.S Latino / Hispano/Latin American art, identity, and culture


Laura Peers (UK)
Curator for the Americas Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum &
Reader in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at University of Oxford
Research Focus: First Nations Canada and US and museum and heritage studies


Sherry Farrell Racette (Timiskaming First Nation / Irish;  Canada)
Associate Professor of Native Studies at University of Manitoba
Research Focus: First Nation Studies, art and women's history


Paul Tapsell (Maori; New Zealand)
Professor of Maori Studies at University of Otago
Research Focus: Maori cultural heritage and museums



Mark Turin (US & UK)
Director of Yale Himalaya Initiative and Professor at Yale and Cambridge
Research Focus: Himalayan region, digital archives and heritage, endangered languages

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