University of Aberdeen

Imagining Connections: pursuing gendered experience through material-social relationships in the Stonehaven collections, University of Aberdeen Museums and Special Collections

Academic History:

2017 - present: PhD in Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

2016 - 17: MRes Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

2012 - 2016: MA Anthropology and English Literature, University of Aberdeen

Supervisors:

Dr Alison Brown

Dr Nancy Wachowich

Research Interests:

• Historical anthropology
• Gendered histories
• Material histories
• Collecting, shopping, and object acquisition
• Colonialism
• Museums and archives

Previous Research Projects:

Masters’ Case Study: ‘In these shops one may sometimes pick up treasures’: Object Categories, Gender, and Intercultural Engagement in the Japanese Honeymoon Journals of Sydney, Lady Inverurie, 1873.

Undergraduate Dissertation: ‘I have come to a determination of presenting a narrative of my sufferings’: An exploration of captivity narratives, authorship, and social roles in A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massy Harbison.

Scholarships:

SGSAH AHRC DTP Scholarship (2017-2020)

Friends of the University of Aberdeen Library Postgraduate Bursary (2017)

Thomas and Margaret Roddan Trust Bursary (2016)

Awards:

University of Aberdeen Anthropology Prize (2016)

University of Aberdeen Lucy Prize for English (2016)

Contact Details:

Address: Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

Email: r03kk17@abdn.ac.uk

First published: 25 September 2017