Catherine Nichols

CTSDH Interim Assistant Director

Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies

Fields: critical curation, network analysis, Public History

Research Interests: museum studies, history of science, history of anthropology, the exchange of anthropological objects by museums in the late nineteenth century, Smithsonian Institution; Field Museum of Natural History

Professional Activities: Director, May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, LUC; Scientific Affiliate, Field Museum of Natural History

Relevant Publications: with N.J. Parezo, “Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges,” in: History and Anthropology, (Routledge, 2016); “Shared Values, Gifted Objects: The Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates,” in: Collaborative Anthropologies, (Smithsonian, 2015).