Dr Rosie Spooner is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work sits at the intersection of history, museum and heritage studies, cultural studies and public humanities. Trained as a cultural historian of the late British Empire (19C and 20C), her research concerns the history, theory and practice of museums, heritage sites and other memory institutions within an imperial context and the contemporary legacies of these entanglements. She is particularly interested in the role of the past in the production of power, identity, memory and place. She is Lecturer in Information Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where she is core academic faculty for the Museum Studies postgraduate programme.
Prior to pursuing a PhD and entering academia, Rosie worked in museums, art galleries and archives in the UK and Canada where she held positions in collections research, programming and curation, education, events management and administration.
More information about Rosie’s research interests, current projects, public engagement activities and publications can be found on her University of Glasgow staff webpage.
Contact: rosemary.spooner[at]glasgow.ac.uk
