Diana E Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 187128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana E Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana E |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | MARSH D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3340-8884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second of Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt's two volumes on the life and work of Franz Boas (1858–1942). Picking up where Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) left off, the second volume begins with Boas’ professorial appointment at Columbia University in 1899 and traces his emergence as the “father of Anthropology” (p. 298) and “venerated Pa…
Attitudes and uses of archival materials among science-based anthropologists
Theories and implications for centering Indigenous and queer embodiment within sociotechnical systems
This paper explores the role of Indigenous and queer embodiment in understanding the current limitations of sociotechnical systems as they relate to cultural heritage institutions. Through the utilization of a critical case study the paper highlights the ways in which the ideologies of colonialism and cisnormativity render Indigenous and queer identities invisible within cultural heritage institutions. In particular, the case studies highlight in…
Reviving anthropology's past: Digital archival access and ethical collaboration with Indigenous communities
This article outlines the revitalization of the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) to adapt to the changing dynamics of archival data reuse in anthropology. It begins by examining the prevailing discourse on anthropological data, archives and their reuse, then explores interdisciplinary data curation trends. Recent initiatives include collaborations with Wikipedia and Wikidata and innovative design strategies to impro…
Digital knowledge sharing: Perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
Ephemeral Encounters
In this “report from the field,” we write from two perspectives, as a curator and as an advisor, on the process of interpreting Native American documents in the 2016 American Philosophical Society Museum exhibition, “Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America.” We share insights into our curatorial and representational goals, and reflect on the challenges of interpreting Indigenous heritage and traditional knowledges in materials that …
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Bridging anthropology and its archives: An analysis from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives
Much has been written about the need to open up archives as part of the decolonial turn and decolonizing methodologies. What does this look like in practice for anthropology? Despite increasing interest in archives and 'the archival turn' among anthropologists, our study at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) found that anthropologists who use archives in their work lack familiarity with organizational principles and histories that would …
Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making
Anthropology and its institutions have come under increased pressure to focus critical attention on the way they produce, steward, and manage cultural knowledge. However, in spite of the discipline’s reflexive turn, many museums remain encumbered by Enlightenment-derived legitimating conventions. Although anthropological critiques and critical museology have not sufficiently disrupted the majority paradigm, certain exhibitionary projects have ser…
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Borders and Interruptions
While museums are perceived as institutions dedicated to the dissemination and exchange of culturally diverse knowledges, museum scholarship has been hampered by a lack of multilingual networks and publications necessary for the exchange of museological perspectives between different linguistic, regional, and national communities. At the same time, the museum decolonization movement, the move from monocultural to pluricultural societies, the poli…
Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. TonyBennett, FionaCameron, NéliaDias, BenDibly, RodneyHarrison, IraJacknis, and ConalMcCarthy. Durham, NC: D uke U niver…
On Monuments and Racial Violence
The Council for Museum Anthropology Program in San José
In Whose Honor? On Monuments, Public Spaces, Historical Narratives, and Memory
Recent organized protests have incurred outrage over monuments commemorating Confederate military leaders; in some cities, such as Baltimore, statues of Confederate military leaders have been removed overnight. In this context of charged public discourse, we ask: Does the immediate removal of these statues and monuments truly change the representation of histories and heritage? This expanded commentary, emanating from a Late-Breaking Roundtable S…
Museum Anthropology Futures Conference Schedule
AAA Leadership Fellows
Awkward Objects of Genocide
New Initiatives in 2016-2017
Curating Gathering Voices
Trace Ethnography, Affect, and Institutional Ecologies in the Distributed Records of a Plaster Model
This article investigates the classification and record-keeping history of a medicine man model in the Wellcome Library archives and the Science Museum archives in London, and the multifarious ways that information is constructed or lost in the history of a museum collection. First, attending to the affective turn in information scholarship, I argue that people's relationships and idiosyncratic preoccupations are formative in the histories of rec…
C̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Exhibits at the Museum of Vancouver, the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Center, and the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Can…
Studying the Impact of Digitized Ethnographic Collections: Implications for Practitioners
This paper reports salient findings of a yearlong study that aimed to understand the impacts of digitized ethnographic collections. We discuss the barriers and challenges to understanding, assessing, and communicating the impact of ethnographic digitization projects. We then discuss the implications of our findings for collection practice and development and advocate for cultivating a culture of assessment for digitization projects using the syst…
Stories of impact: The role of narrative in understanding the value and impact of digital collections
Reassembling the social life of a Medicine Man: Reassessing otherness, agency and authorship in the Wellcome archives
This article traces the social life of a Medicine Man in a life-size diorama at the London Science Museum. While the author shows that the representations the model has perpetuated throughout its social life, largely due to its particular material and social contexts, were often laden with misperception and exoticization, she also argues that the model came to be on contemporary view through an unusual set of actions, spaces, and happenings which…
Digital knowledge sharing: Perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
In Whose Honor? On Monuments, Public Spaces, Historical Narratives, and Memory
Recent organized protests have incurred outrage over monuments commemorating Confederate military leaders; in some cities, such as Baltimore, statues of Confederate military leaders have been removed overnight. In this context of charged public discourse, we ask: Does the immediate removal of these statues and monuments truly change the representation of histories and heritage? This expanded commentary, emanating from a Late-Breaking Roundtable S…
Trace Ethnography, Affect, and Institutional Ecologies in the Distributed Records of a Plaster Model
This article investigates the classification and record-keeping history of a medicine man model in the Wellcome Library archives and the Science Museum archives in London, and the multifarious ways that information is constructed or lost in the history of a museum collection. First, attending to the affective turn in information scholarship, I argue that people's relationships and idiosyncratic preoccupations are formative in the histories of rec…
Stories of impact: The role of narrative in understanding the value and impact of digital collections
Theories and implications for centering Indigenous and queer embodiment within sociotechnical systems
This paper explores the role of Indigenous and queer embodiment in understanding the current limitations of sociotechnical systems as they relate to cultural heritage institutions. Through the utilization of a critical case study the paper highlights the ways in which the ideologies of colonialism and cisnormativity render Indigenous and queer identities invisible within cultural heritage institutions. In particular, the case studies highlight in…
Reassembling the social life of a Medicine Man: Reassessing otherness, agency and authorship in the Wellcome archives
This article traces the social life of a Medicine Man in a life-size diorama at the London Science Museum. While the author shows that the representations the model has perpetuated throughout its social life, largely due to its particular material and social contexts, were often laden with misperception and exoticization, she also argues that the model came to be on contemporary view through an unusual set of actions, spaces, and happenings which…
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Bridging anthropology and its archives: An analysis from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives
Much has been written about the need to open up archives as part of the decolonial turn and decolonizing methodologies. What does this look like in practice for anthropology? Despite increasing interest in archives and 'the archival turn' among anthropologists, our study at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) found that anthropologists who use archives in their work lack familiarity with organizational principles and histories that would …
Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum. Exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. September 18, 2011–present
C̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Exhibits at the Museum of Vancouver, the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Center, and the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Can…
Studying the Impact of Digitized Ethnographic Collections: Implications for Practitioners
This paper reports salient findings of a yearlong study that aimed to understand the impacts of digitized ethnographic collections. We discuss the barriers and challenges to understanding, assessing, and communicating the impact of ethnographic digitization projects. We then discuss the implications of our findings for collection practice and development and advocate for cultivating a culture of assessment for digitization projects using the syst…
Stories of impact: The role of narrative in understanding the value and impact of digital collections
Reassembling the social life of a Medicine Man: Reassessing otherness, agency and authorship in the Wellcome archives
This article traces the social life of a Medicine Man in a life-size diorama at the London Science Museum. While the author shows that the representations the model has perpetuated throughout its social life, largely due to its particular material and social contexts, were often laden with misperception and exoticization, she also argues that the model came to be on contemporary view through an unusual set of actions, spaces, and happenings which…
Curating Gathering Voices
Trace Ethnography, Affect, and Institutional Ecologies in the Distributed Records of a Plaster Model
This article investigates the classification and record-keeping history of a medicine man model in the Wellcome Library archives and the Science Museum archives in London, and the multifarious ways that information is constructed or lost in the history of a museum collection. First, attending to the affective turn in information scholarship, I argue that people's relationships and idiosyncratic preoccupations are formative in the histories of rec…
Museum Anthropology Futures Conference Schedule
AAA Leadership Fellows
Awkward Objects of Genocide
New Initiatives in 2016-2017
On Monuments and Racial Violence
The Council for Museum Anthropology Program in San José
In Whose Honor? On Monuments, Public Spaces, Historical Narratives, and Memory
Recent organized protests have incurred outrage over monuments commemorating Confederate military leaders; in some cities, such as Baltimore, statues of Confederate military leaders have been removed overnight. In this context of charged public discourse, we ask: Does the immediate removal of these statues and monuments truly change the representation of histories and heritage? This expanded commentary, emanating from a Late-Breaking Roundtable S…
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Borders and Interruptions
While museums are perceived as institutions dedicated to the dissemination and exchange of culturally diverse knowledges, museum scholarship has been hampered by a lack of multilingual networks and publications necessary for the exchange of museological perspectives between different linguistic, regional, and national communities. At the same time, the museum decolonization movement, the move from monocultural to pluricultural societies, the poli…
Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. TonyBennett, FionaCameron, NéliaDias, BenDibly, RodneyHarrison, IraJacknis, and ConalMcCarthy. Durham, NC: D uke U niver…
Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making
Anthropology and its institutions have come under increased pressure to focus critical attention on the way they produce, steward, and manage cultural knowledge. However, in spite of the discipline’s reflexive turn, many museums remain encumbered by Enlightenment-derived legitimating conventions. Although anthropological critiques and critical museology have not sufficiently disrupted the majority paradigm, certain exhibitionary projects have ser…
Ephemeral Encounters
In this “report from the field,” we write from two perspectives, as a curator and as an advisor, on the process of interpreting Native American documents in the 2016 American Philosophical Society Museum exhibition, “Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America.” We share insights into our curatorial and representational goals, and reflect on the challenges of interpreting Indigenous heritage and traditional knowledges in materials that …
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Bridging anthropology and its archives: An analysis from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives
Much has been written about the need to open up archives as part of the decolonial turn and decolonizing methodologies. What does this look like in practice for anthropology? Despite increasing interest in archives and 'the archival turn' among anthropologists, our study at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) found that anthropologists who use archives in their work lack familiarity with organizational principles and histories that would …
Digital knowledge sharing: Perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
Attitudes and uses of archival materials among science-based anthropologists
Theories and implications for centering Indigenous and queer embodiment within sociotechnical systems
This paper explores the role of Indigenous and queer embodiment in understanding the current limitations of sociotechnical systems as they relate to cultural heritage institutions. Through the utilization of a critical case study the paper highlights the ways in which the ideologies of colonialism and cisnormativity render Indigenous and queer identities invisible within cultural heritage institutions. In particular, the case studies highlight in…
Reviving anthropology's past: Digital archival access and ethical collaboration with Indigenous communities
This article outlines the revitalization of the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) to adapt to the changing dynamics of archival data reuse in anthropology. It begins by examining the prevailing discourse on anthropological data, archives and their reuse, then explores interdisciplinary data curation trends. Recent initiatives include collaborations with Wikipedia and Wikidata and innovative design strategies to impro…
Sociology (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · History (15 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Library science (12 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (11 works) · Citation (10 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Digital and Traditional Archives Management (7 works)