Diana Marsh

PhD Student, Museum Studies

MPhil Social Anthropological Analysis, Museums & Heritage, University of Cambridge, 2010
BFA Visual Arts, Photography, Cultural Anthropology, Rutgers University, 2009

 
Email: Marshd(at)interchange.ubc.ca

Supervisors: Dr. Susan Rowley, Dr. Anthony Shelton

Research Interests:
critical museology, anthropology of institutions, ‘elite-’ and ‘audit cultures’, visitor studies, collections, materiality. 

Current Projects:
My doctoral research focuses on the recent emphasis on democratizing the museum within trends toward large-scale museum departmentalization, self-evaluation and business organizational models.

Conference Papers and Publications:

Marsh, Diana

2010  Progressive Exhibitions: Reassembling the Social Life of a Medicine Man at the   Science Museum, London. MPhil Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Memberships:

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA)
Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW)
Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)
American Ethnological Society (AES)
Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA)