Deborah Swallow
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Deborah Anne Swallow
Early life and education
Swallow was born on 27 August 1948.
Career
Deborah Swallow began her career at the University of Cambridge. From 1974 to 1983, she was an assistant curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She was additionally a lecturer at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1975 to 1980, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1975 to 1983.[2] In 1983 she joined the Victoria and Albert Museum's Indian department, overseeing the creation of the Nehru Gallery of Art and a series of major exhibitions on the arts of the Subcontinent, before becoming Keeper of a newly formed Asian Department and Director of Collections in 2001.[4]
In 2004, she was appointed Director of
As educator and scholar, Professor Swallow is active as a speaker, lecturer, specialist advisor and contributor to journals. She is a Fellow of
Swallow was appointed
Selected publications
- "Production and control in the Indian garment export industry", in E. N. Goody (ed.), From Craft to Industry: the Ethnography of Proto-industrial Cloth Production, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 133–165.
- "The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms: Collaborating with a Community" (with Eithne Nightingale), in Laura Peers and Alison K Brown (eds.), Museums and Source Communities, Routledge, London, 2003, pp. 55–71.
- "The Victoria & Albert Museum and its Asian Collections", in Louis Mezin (ed.), The Heritage of the East India Companies in European Museums and Public Collections, Cahiers de la Compagnie des Indes, no 5/6, Port Louis, 2000.
- "The India Museum and the British-Indian textile trade in the late nineteenth century", Textile History, 30 (1), 1999, pp. 29–45.
- "Colonial architecture, international exhibitions and official patronage of the Indian artisan", in Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn (eds.), Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, Routledge, London, pp. 52–67.
- "Curzon's ivory chairs at Kedleston: a puzzle of patronage in Anglo-Indian furniture" (with Amin Jaffer), Apollo (April 1998), pp. 35–39.
- The Arts of India: 1550–1900 (edited with John Guy), London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990.
References
- ^ ‘SWALLOW, Prof. Deborah Anne’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 29 April 2013[unreliable source?]
- ^ a b c d "SWALLOW, Prof. Deborah Anne". Who's Who 2015. Oxford University Press. November 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.[unreliable source?]
- ^ Swallow, Deborah Anne (3 May 1977). Living Saints and their Devotees: a Study of Guru Cults in Urban Orissa. Cambridge University (Thesis). Newton Library Catalogues. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ Professor Deborah Swallow Märit Rausing Director. The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ "Professor Deborah Swallow to step down as Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld". The Courtauld. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ "Mark Hallett welcomed as Märit Rausing Director". The Courtauld. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ "Presidents". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B10.
