CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

Research member: The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing transcultural art histories (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Artistic research group: Back Translation (Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway)

Research Affiliate: Global Research Programme on Inequality (University of Bergen, Norway)

Advisory Board: Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery (NSCAD University, Canada)

LIVING ARCHIVES (2014-2018)

I collaborated with researchers in Malmö University, Sweden, to address the challenges of producing and working with archival material in an increasingly digitized and networked environment. Under the project’s “Performing Memory” inquiry strand I developed alternative approaches to the representation of colonial archival material, by combining augmented reality (AR), sound, media projection, and varying kinds of performance to develop more affective public experiences with these contested histories.

EUROTAST (2012-2014)

 
I was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow for EUROTAST Initial Training Network, coordinated at the Centre for Geogenetics, Copenhagen University in Denmark. We worked with a pan-European network of PhD students, and a global network of geneticists, historians and archaeologists, all investigating the effects of the transatlantic slave trade on African health, disease patterns, and biosocial identity.