20 May 2019
The 2018 grantees are:
- Willem van Wijk – Will conduct comparative research on the representation of African art in South-Korea and the Netherlands.
- Adiva Lawrence – Will make a comparative study on museums and exhibitions from different contexts contribute to "re-archiving" black history and memory, with a focus on the memory of slavery.
- Jaimee Comstock-Skipp – Will rethink typologies and labels in her research: Cataloguing Persianate Arts of the Book in the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.
- Rab Messina – Will analyse how designs can be made more sustainable for a wider audience by bringing technology and design closer together.
- Caroline Fernandes Caromano – Will research Amazonian Flames in European Houses which is an investigation of Fire as a Museum Object in ethnographic and archaeological collections from the Amazon in European museums.
Image: photograph of four out of five junior fellows by ©KIRSTENVANSANTEN