About the BGC

BGC-AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology. BA, The University of Lethbridge; MTS, Harvard Divinity School; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. She has taught in the Museum Anthropology MA program at Columbia University and the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies MA program in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. She has received fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Evans Fund, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Sasakawa Foundation, and others. In addition to other writing projects, she is completing a book Faith in Objects: Object Lessons of The World in Boston, which builds on her dissertation Seeing through Things: Material Burma, the Missionary Exhibit, and its Object Lessons, 1900-2008. Her areas of research are the history and theory of museum anthropology, collecting, colonialism, material culture studies, anthropology of religion, biography, and the cultural heritage of Burma (Myanmar).