Curriculum Vitae
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Appointments
School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Contributed sessions to all five Masters’ programmes on museum ethics topics; in addition, taught feminist museology in Art Museum and Gallery Studies
Supervised approximately 10 MA dissertations/research projects per year
First supervised 14 PhD students
Responsibilities included staff development, international partnership development, philanthropy initiatives, PhD studentships
Sat on School’s Senior Management Group and on University-wide China Activities Group
Led strategic growth and synergies among these areas.
Oversaw all taught programmes (both campus-based and distance learning)
Responsible for curriculum development, student progression, assessment, learning resources, student experience and support and quality assurance
Sat on College Academic Committee and School Management Group
Led successful School of Museum Studies submission to Gender Equality Charter Mark 2014, Equality Challenge Unit, achieving Bronze Award
Responsible for growing the programme; assessing applications; and leading specialist seminars
Department of Art, Music and Design, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Taught undergraduate art history and graduate museum studies
Supervised approximately eight M.A. theses per year
Advised half of the approximately 70 graduate students
Responsibilities included staff development, international partnership development, philanthropy initiatives, PhD studentships
Sat on School’s Senior Management Group and on University-wide China Activities Group
Central Washington University, Ellensburg Washington
Taught a diverse range of undergraduate art history courses as well as Introduction to Museum Studies, Introduction to Women’s Studies and a writing-intensive literature course
Department of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
Taught undergraduate art history courses and seminars
Academic Qualifications
Teaching Qualifications
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
Books
Curating Art
London: Routledge. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series.
Curating under Pressure: International perspectives on negotiating conflict and upholding integrity
London: Routledge. Museum Meanings series.
Critical Practice: Artists, museums, ethics
London and New York: Routledge. Museum Meanings series.
New Directions in Museum Ethics
London and New York: Routledge.
Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining ethics for the twenty-first century museum
London and New York: Routledge.
New Museum Theory and Practice: An introduction
Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Chinese trans. 2009; Macedonian trans. 2011; Serbian trans. 2012).
Book Chapters
Dictionary of Museology. London: Routledge, pp.169-173.
Curating Art, London: Routledge. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, pp. 1-6.
Curating under Pressure: International perspectives on negotiating conflict and upholding integrity, London: Routledge. Museum Meanings series, pp. 3-35.
International Handbook of Museum Studies: Volume 4: Museum Practice: Critical Debates in the Museum Sector, General editors Helen Rees Leahy and Sharon Macdonald. Malden and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 69-96.
Museums, Equality and Social Justice, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 38-44.
Museums, Equality and Social Justice, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 84-102.
New Directions in Museum Ethics, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-23.
Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining ethics for the twenty-first century museum, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-25.
New Museum Theory and Practice: An introduction, Janet Marstine (ed.) Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 266-91.
Guest Editing
Special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship
26: 2 (May).
Articles
Selected Non Peer-reviewed Publications
‘Culturally appropriate social inclusion: challenges and opportunities in Chinese museums’. To be submitted to Museum and Society.
‘Museum ethics’. In François Mairesse (ed.) Dictionary of Museology. Paris: ICOM.
‘Culturally appropriate social inclusion: challenges and opportunities in Chinese museums’. To be submitted to Museum and Society
‘Cultural collisions in socially engaged artistic practice: “temple swapping” and hybridity in the work of Theaster Gates’. Museum Worlds: Advances in Practice
1: 153-178.
‘What a mess! claiming a space for undergraduate student experimentation in the university museum’, Museum Management and Curatorship
22 (3): 303-15.
‘Fear factor: recognizing the pressures to self-censor in a contentious cultural climate’ Museum
(June).
‘A university department created for museums’ Museum Review
(博物馆评论) 1: 47-52 (in Mandarin only).
‘The conversation: is there such thing as self-censorship in UK museums today?’ Museums Journal
(October): 17.
‘The conversation: what are the priorities for a new ethical code?’ Museums Journal
(July): 15.
‘Demonstrating the social value of museums’ Leicester Exchanges. Online.
‘Ethics and the 9/11 Museum complex’ Anthropology Today
7: 4 (October): 28.
Research Grants and Fellowships
External
For research on new approaches to museum education in Chinese museums
‘One Country, Two Systems? Negotiating censorship and self-censorship in Hong Kong and Guangdong exhibition spaces', partnering with Oscar Ho, Associate Professor, Chinese University Hong Kong
Advancing 21st Century Museum Ethics in Theory and Practice; led by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester, with partners the Museums Association and IDEA-CETL, University of Leeds
To found the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University
Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, part of collaborative curatorial project interrogating doll imagery in Ellensburg, WA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Newberry Library, for PhD research
United States Capitol Historical Society, for PhD research
External
For research on approaches to social inclusion in Chinese museums
For seed funding to develop partnerships on social inclusion in China with museums and universities
For translation costs of papers to be included in Curating Art
For field work on monograph Critical Practice: Artists, museums, ethics
Conferences, Guest Lectures, Symposia, Workshops
Keynote talks
The Research Center for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester
'99 Questions and More: Global perspectives on colonial collections’ series, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany (via VOXR)
Shanghai Museum Academic Forum, Shanghai, China
Children’s Art Education Conference, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China
Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, US
Museums and Ethics Conference, Volkskundemuseum, Vienna, Austria
Association of Danish Museums: International Seminar on Museum Mediation, Aarhus, Denmark
Norwegian Museums Association Conference, Bergen, Norway
II International Conference on Education and Accessibility in Museums and Heritage, University of Saragossa, Spain
But it’s my content too – Democracy, trust and moderation, iSay: Visitor-generated content in Heritage Institutions, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK
Disruptive Difference: Transnational Craft Dialogues, University of
Leicester and The Shape of Things, UK
Conferences and symposia convened
University of Leicester, UK
University of Leicester and The Shape of Things, UK
Seton Hall University, US
Seton Hall University, US
Conference sessions chaired
American Alliance of Museums, Chicago, US (via Zoom)
American Alliance of Museums, New Orleans, US
Museums and the Global Contemporary, University of Leicester, UK
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, Washington, DC, US
College Art Association, Los Angeles, US
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, Washington, DC, US
American Association of Museums, Chicago, US
College Art Association, Chicago, US
Invited lectures and presentations
ICOM International Committee on Ethics Annual Conference (via Zoom)
Index on Censorship, UK (via Zoom)
Chinese University Hong Kong (via Zoom)
George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, US (via Zoom)
https://vimeo.com/514468026
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, US (via Zoom)
The National Gallery, London, UK
Qian Xuesen Museum, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
International Summit of Cultural Capitals, Chinese Museums Association and City of Luoyang, Luoyang Museum, China
Department of Cultural and Creative Industries Management, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Graduate Institute of Museum Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
Graduate School of Museum Studies, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
Family and Child Research Center, Beijing Normal University, China
Department of Anthropology, Minzu University, Beijing, China
Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Department of Education and Professional Studies, King’s College London, UK
American Alliance of Museums, Washington DC, US
Museums and Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Integrity and Ethics in Arts Research, Association for Research Ethics and University of the Arts, London, UK
Museums Association, Cardiff, UK
International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, UK
Ethics, Museums and Archaeology Conference, Durham University and Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, UK
The Dangerous Museum: Museums in public debate, Roskilde University Cultural Studies Centre, Denmark
American Alliance of Museums, Baltimore, US
Working with the Artist’s Voice, British Museum and Arts Council England, London, UK
College Art Association, New York, US
American Association of Museums, Philadelphia, US
New Museums, New Museology, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, US
The College Museum: A collision of differences, a laboratory of perception, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, US
Seminars, workshops and panel discussions led
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Thinking Through the Museum Grant Project, Concordia University, Canada (via Zoom)
Maine Archives and Museums Workshop Series, US (via Zoom)
Ethics Committee for Dutch Museums and the Research Center for Material Culture, Amsterdam, Netherlands (via Zoom)
PhD Student Seminar, University of Leicester UK (via Zoom)
Museum Studies Network Conversations, American Alliance of Museums, US (via Zoom)
National Coalition Against Censorship, New York, US (via Zoom)
National Trust workshop, Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derby, UK
Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University Hong Kong
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University Hong Kong
Research Network for Studies in the Curatorial, University of Copenhagen and University of Leicester, UK
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Research Network for Advancing Museum Ethics, University of Leicester and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘Our Museums’ project, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums, UK
Research Network for Advancing Museum Ethics, University of Leicester and Collections Trust, London, UK
Research Network for Advancing Museum Ethics, University of Leicester and Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
Research Network for Advancing Museum Ethics, University of Leicester, UK
Other lectures and presentations
Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, UK
2nd International Scientific Meeting of the MuCEM, Marseille, France
Museums Association, Edinburgh, UK
American Association of Museums, Houston, US
American Association of Museums, Los Angeles, US
From the Margins to the Core, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
College Art Association, Los Angeles, US
ICOM (International Council of Museums), University Museums and Collections Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
College Art Association, Boston, US
PhD Supervision and Examining
PhD Students Completed
Catharina Hendrick
Laura Diaz Ramos
Victoria Hollows
Sipei Lu
Zheng Zhang
Ceciel Brouwer
External examining
Arndís Bergsdóttir, Ph.D., University of Iceland, 2017
Catherine Hahn, Ph.D., Goldsmiths, University of London, 2016
Laura Breen, Ph.D., University of Westminster, 2016
Melanie Jordan, Ph.D., Loughborough University, 2015
Fiona Sarre, Ph.D., University College London, 2011
Internal examining
Martina Santillan
Y Tzeng
Leslie Barker
Jennifer Jankauskas
Barbara Rothermel
Alexandra Whitfield
Viva chairing
Jennifer Bergevin
Margarida Melo
Cheng-Yi Shih
Heather Hollins
Museum Consulting and Research Project Advising
Peer Reviewing for Research Councils and Fellowship Programs
Academic Promotion Assessment
Service to Museums and Sector Bodies
Editorial Board Membership
Book Proposal and Journal Article Reviewing
Selected Media Coverage
Please note, all links are external websites which may be protected by national and international coverage
‘Whom to serve? How the CCP censors art in Europe,’ 1 Dec.
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'Paul Gauguin’s "predatory behaviour and colonialist mindset' highlighted by new exhibition', The Telegraph. 12 October.
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'‘Formal analysis cannot occlude the real issues: how curators are addressing Gauguin’s dark side in a new show at the National Gallery in London’, Artnet News. 10 October.
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‘Komt een museum weg met reproducties?: Museum Escher in het Paleis.’, Volskrant. 25 September.
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‘MA starts consultation on ethics code’, Museums Journal (June): 6.
‘Jack the Ripper and the ethics of the (other) Met Museum’, The Guardian. 12 August.
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‘”Ashe to Amen” exhibit at Reginald Lewis Museum raises questions’, Baltimore Sun. 29 June.
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‘Apps bring museum studies to life’, The Guardian. 19 June.
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‘Should the Milwaukee Art Museum protest Ai Weiwei’s detention?’ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 20 May.
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‘Turning ten: The Tang Museum still turns heads’, Scope (Winter): 12-17, p. 16.
‘Denver museum’s plan to sell four Clyfford Still paintings has art world watching’, Denver Post, 11 November.
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‘Museum sells pieces of its past, reviving a debate’, New York Times. 5 December.
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‘Letter to the editor: when museums sell art to raise cash re: “The Art of the Deal”, by Judith H. Dobrzynski,’ New York Times, 8 January: A26.
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‘Museum jobs emerging from a fossilized history’, in ‘Work Matters’ section, Newark Star Ledger, 28 October: 2.
'Local locals: Janet Marstine', New York
Times-The Local: Maplewood, Millburn, South Orange, 9 July.
