Participant Info
- First Name
- Alison
- Last Name
- Laurence
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- alison.g.laurence@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Stanford University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Cultural History, Environmental History, Museums, Public History, Animals, Anthropocene, Deep Time
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Alison Laurence earned a Ph.D. at M.I.T. from the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society in 2019.
Informed by work experience in history and natural history museums, her research focuses on the politics inherent in museum exhibition and similar practices of display. Employing the methods of cultural, environmental, and public history, her work attends to questions of voice, agency, and authority, querying what is communicated and what is obfuscated through exhibition. Her collaborative work has appeared in the open-access History of Anthropology Newsletter and Anthropocene Curriculum. Prior to doctoral research, Alison earned a B.A. in Classics from Brown University and an M.A. in History and Public History from the University of New Orleans.
- Recent Publications
Grace Kim and Alison Laurence, “‘All the World Is Here’ Exhibition Review,” History of Anthropology Newsletter 41 (2017): http://histanthro.org/all-the-world-is-here/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @alisonglaurence
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Museums, Public History, Science
