Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Julie Adams
Research fellow, the Melanesia project
Melanesian collection

Claude Ardouin
Curator, Head of Africa Section
Claude is responsible for the Africa section, with specific focus on the care of west Africa collections.

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)

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

Harry Persaud
Curator Library Collections
Library Collections which includes the Pictorial Collection of 75,000 plus images (photographs, drawings, paintings and prints)

Natasha McKinney
Curator, Oceania
Pacific collections, particularly Polynesia

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