Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Julie Adams
Research fellow, the Melanesia project
Melanesian collection

Jan Ayres
Senior Librarian
The Centre for Anthropology

Lissant Bolton
Curator, Head of Oceania Section
Oceanic (Pacific and Australian) collections

Liz Bonshek
Postdoctoral Fellow, Melanesia Project
Research on the Melanesia Collections (the Oceanic countries of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia)

Vivian Davies
Acting Keeper

Sovati Louden-Smith
Curatorial Assistant
Collections enquiries, care of archives and deposits, photographic library for the department, some collections work with visits to outstations

Colin McEwan
Curator, Head of Americas Section
Curator of Latin American Collections

Harry Persaud
Curator Library Collections
Library Collections which includes the Pictorial Collection of 75000 plus images (photographs, drawings, paintings and prints)

Natasha McKinney
Curator, Oceania
Pacific collections, particularly Polynesia

Devorah Romanek
Curator, Americas
The North American Collections

Christopher Spring
Curator, Northeast, East and South Africa
Chris is responsible for the Sainsbury African galleries, developing the collections of contemporary African art and the collections from eastern and southern Africa.

Robert Storrie
Curator Americas
The North American collections