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Language Games: Literature as a Tool for Museum Analysis Three months into the first year of my thesis, which looked at the production of temporality....
Museum Studies: What’s It All About? “I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in...
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The Jucu de Sus medieval cemetery excavations, Cluj, Transylvania Transylvania Bioarchaeology is a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to inv...
Visual Sources in Russian Archives The vagaries of archival research can be taxing enough when working with conventional text-based sources, but tryin...
Seeing the bigger picture: Researching medieval landscapes of power in Cheshire Man’s power, and how it is used – and abused – has always fascinated.....
Human Rights is an interdiscipline, a field that is not at home in any one discipline, but is informed by a multitude of disciplines and...
Religion, Politics, and Bookworms: Tibetan Libraries in China Today Picture this: it’s mid-morning in Beijing. The fog parts to reveal the impo...
Hacking Public History Most of the public history and oral history projects I admire are the result of thousands or even millions of dollars in...
For a long time, social sciences have been criticized for not being “scientific” enough. Archaeology as a branch of social science has unavoidably suf...
Ethno-Textuality: An Intersubjective Encounter This essay is an attempt to explore in writing my conviction that reading and translating texts and pra...
My Dissertation in Photos. “I just wish I had a photo version of my dissertation.” It began with an offhand comment to a friend –...