Museum curator and researcher specialising in collecting histories and provenance research.

Publications

“Maqdala and the South Kensington Museum: 150 years later.” In Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse, edited by Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

The Lives of the Objects, edited by Dr Tristram Hunt. London: V&A Publishing, 2020 (as Dr Hunt’s Researcher)

“Ethiopian Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum.” African Research and Documentation 135 (2019): 8-24

“The Pepys Cup.” In The Cast Courts, edited by Angus Patterson and Marjorie Trusted. London: V&A Publishing, 2018

“Queen Terunesh’s Jewellery at the V&A.” Jewellery History Today 32 (2018): 11

Selected presentations and papers

Objects as Trophies: Collecting on the 1867-8 British Expedition to Ethiopia
Paper for panel Transnational Collecting: Objects Crossing Borders, Objects Transformed. CAA 112th Annual Conference (Hybrid, Feb 2024).

James Bruce’s Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Ethiopia
Paper for panel Cultural Transformations and Disciplinary Migrations. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Conference (Edinburgh, Jul 2023).

Looting, Prize and Trophies: Nineteenth-century ‘punitive expeditions’ and cultural plunder in Africa
Opening lecture for the Courtauld Institute’s short course Between Power and Conflict (London, Apr 2022).

Automating access to collections during lockdown
Presentation for Lockdown Legacy: The Digital Future of the Art & Cultural Heritage World Webinar organised by the Scottish Society for Art History and Creative Informatics (Online, 7 Nov 2020).

Displaying Ethiopian Objects at the V&A
Paper for panel Connecting and Disrupting African Collections in European Museums. European Conference on African Studies (Edinburgh, Jun 2019).

Maqdala 1868
Conference paper for UCL and the British Museum in Africa and the Middle East (London, May 2018).