Susanne Küchler
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)Susanne Küchler,
professor at University College London. She previously worked at the University of East Anglia and the Johns Hopkins University
.
Early life and education
Küchler studied
doctoral thesis was titled "Malangan, Exchange and Regional Integration in Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea ".[1][2]
Academic career
For the 1985/1986 academic year, Küchler held a "New Blood
Professor of Material Culture.[3][2] In 2010, she became head of the Department of Anthropology at UCL; she will hold the post for ten years.[3]
Küchler has been co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture since 1996.[3][1] She was co-editor of Art in Translation from 2008 to 2012.[1]
Research
Küchler has undertaken
fieldwork on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea and on the Cook Islands.[2] From 2000 to 2004, she was principal investigator of "Clothing the Pacific: The Study of the nature of Innovation".[1]
Honours
In 2016, Küchler was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]
Selected works
- Forty, Adrian; Küchler, Susanne, eds. (1999). The Art of Forgetting. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1859732861.
- Kuchler, Susanne (2002). Malanggan: art, memory and sacrifice. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1859736173.
- Küchler, Susanne; Were, Graeme (2005). Pacific Pattern. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500512371.
- Küchler, Susanne; Miller, Daniel, eds. (2006). Clothing as material culture. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1845200664.
- Küchler, Susanne; Eimke, Andrea (2009). Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714125800.
- ISBN 978-1446270561.
- Drazin, Adam; Küchler, Susanne, eds. (2015). The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1472592644.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Prof. Dr. Susanne Küchler". AcademiaNet. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Prof Susanne Kuechler". Institutional Research Information Service. University College London. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Susanne Kuechler". Department of Anthropology. University College London. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "Professor Susanne Küchler". British Academy. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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