Professional Service & Public Outreach

Board member:

GRASAC (Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture), 2019-
Journal of Museum Ethnography (contributing editor), 2017--.
Museum Anthropology (AAA Council on Museum Anthropology journal), 2012-2021.
Museum Worlds (Routledge journal), editorial advisory board, 2012--.

Pro-bono consultancy:

Volunteer research on Indigenous items and community contact prior to repatriation, Peterborough Museum and Archives, 2019
Member, Human Remains Working Group, UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport, 2001-2004. (National parliamentary working group resulting in changes to the British Museum Act to permit UK national museums to repatriate human remains, and a national guidance document.)
Member, Human Remains Advisory Group, UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport, 2006-8.

Curatorial advice and training to UK museums sector, including:

2017, consultation with Ashmolean Museum on North American items from Tradescant collection
2015-17, National Maritime Museum, re: Indigenous component of Tudor World gallery
Royal Academy, November 2013, advisory committee for future exhibition
2009, 2011, Curatorial conferences for Haida Project and Blackfoot Shirts Project: both brought substantial First Nations delegations together with curators and conservators from c.20 UK museums holding collections from those nations

Public History Consulting: Historic sites I have worked with include:

Public communication:

2019 “Boxes of possibility—and frustration.” Activehistory.ca blog post, 6 March.
2018 Interview, American Anthropological Association podcast in association with Museum Ethnographers’ Group conference at Pitt Rivers Museum, 2018.
2016 Object Lives project methodology and case study.
2016, ‘The colonial encounter,’ history of anthropology series on BBC radio 4.
2015 Website including artist videos, about the Great Box project
2013 Blackfoot Shirts Project website, including shirt photos, historical information, and lesson plans.