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Project Personnel

The Fijian Art Project’s primary personnel are:

Professor Steven Hooper (Principal Investigator; Director, Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA) s.hooper@uea.ac.uk

Specialises in the arts of the Pacific region and North America. His main interests cover the relationship between Polynesian material culture, chiefship, valuables and exchange, ethnohistory, cultural property, ethnographical museums, the art market, publishing, book production and design. More...

Dr Anita Herle (Co-Investigator; Senior Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge) ach13@cam.ac.uk

Regional interests are in Canada (Northwest Coast), Torres Strait (Australia), Vanuatu and more generally in the Pacific. Her research topics include the anthropology of museums, collaborative anthropology, the early history of British anthropology, art and aesthetics, and visual anthropology. More...

Dr Karen Jacobs (Co-Investigator; Lecturer in the Arts of Oceania, Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA) k.jacobs@uea.ac.uk

General research interests include collecting and history of collections, representation and museum ethnography, auctions and the art market, cultural festivals, politics of clothing, contemporary Pacific art. Her research in the Kamoro region in West Papua focuses broadly on the dynamic processes by which persons and objects are interrelated. More...

Dr Lucie Carreau (Post-doctoral Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge) lc435@cam.ac.uk

Wider research interests include the history of ethnographic collections, public and private collecting practices from 1850 onwards, and minor figures in Pacific voyaging such as traders and beachcombers. She is currently focusing on MAA's collections of Fijian objects and photographs. More...

Dr Andrew Mills (Post-doctoral Research Associate, Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA) andrew.mills@uea.ac.uk

General research areas include the cultural history of Western Polynesia, Tongan art history, arms and armour, carving and interdisciplinary research methods that unify qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Specifically, he is interested in the art history of carved Tongan artefacts across the 18th and 19th centuries, with specific reference to the transnational activities of Tongan carvers (tufunga) in Fiji and Samoa. More...

Katrina Talei Igglesden (Project Administrator, Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA) k.igglesden@uea.ac.uk

General interests include collaborative anthropology and the relationship between museums and source communities, particularly how indigenous cultures are represented by and in museums. The relationship between Fijian art and culture are at the centre of her research interests as she is a kailoma of indigenous Fijian and British descent. More...

Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel (currently a PhD student at the Sainsbury Research Unit) s.leclerc-caffarel@uea.ac.uk

As a PhD candidate, Stéphanie focuses on pre-cession Fijian collections (1774-1874), which she considers as primary evidence of early exchange relations between Fijians, Europeans and Americans. Her pluri-cultural background and multi-disciplinary education in history, art history and anthropology led her to an interdisciplinary approach to early museum collections from Fiji. More...

Photo of the Fijian Art Project Personnel

Clockwise from left: Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel, Steven Hooper, Katrina Talei Igglesden, Anita Herle, Karen Jacobs and Lucie Carreau (photo: Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel).

 
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