RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Theories of material and visual culture;
• Histories and theories of collecting and display with a focus on ethnographic museums;
• Heritage and Memory (in the Caribbean and in postcolonial Europe);
• Mobility, Migration, displacement; 
• Diversity and Social Inclusion,
• Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean
• Race and racism
• Questions of Care

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Trans-Atlantic Platform - Social Innovation (T-AP -SI) Grant - Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation. Together with Dr. Chiara de Cesari (UvA). Other partners include: Prof. Paul Goodwin (University of the Arts London; LPI), Prof. dr. Ming Tiampo (Carleton University), and Prof. dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University).
• Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care - A collaboratice project among ethnographic and world cultures museums across Europe. This project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Project Lead, Weltmuseum Wien.

Current Courses:

• Heritage and Public History (BA3 Research Seminar/Seminar)
• Decolonising Europe: History, Memory, Redress

Courses to which I contribute regularly [co-teach]

• MA Curating Arts and Culture

Past Courses

• What Nations Remember: (Difficult) Heritage, Memory and Repair (BA 3)

No ancillary activities

Ancillary activities are updated daily

• Committe Member : Ethnical Code for Museum, Dutch Museums Association
• Member of the Board: Learned Society of the Royal Netherlands Institute for South East Asian and Caribbean Studies
• Editorial Board Member: Small Axe - A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
• Trustee Board Member - The James Henry Green Charitable Trust