Staff
Curatorial staff:
Claude
Ardouin
Curator, Head of Africa Section
Claude is responsible for the Africa section, with specific focus
on the care of west Africa collections.
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)
Jonathan C. H. King
Keeper
Management of the Department of Africa Oceania and the Americas,
with the Centre for Anthropology
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
Jenny
Newell
Curator
Pacific and Australia, particularly Polynesia; human remains
Harry
Persaud
Curator Library Collections
Library Collections which includes the Pictorial Collection of
75000 plus images (photographs, drawings, paintings and prints)
Natasha
Smith
Curator, Oceania
Natasha assists with the curatorship of the Oceanic collections,
and works particularly on collections documentation
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