Participant-e-s

Ana Rita AMARAL

Ana Rita Amaral is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation in Anthropology, subfield of Anthropology and History, at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation(SFRH/BD/78709/2011). Previously she worked as an anthropologist at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, assisting the keeper of the ethnographic collections.

 Lauren BECK

Lauren Beck works in HispanicStudies at Mount Allison University in Canada whereshealso serves as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Shespecializes in the early modern visual culture of the Hispanic world, as well as transatlanticstudies and the history of cartography. Sheis the editor of TerraeIncognitae, the international journal devoted to the history of discovery and exploration, and the author of Transforming the Enemy in SpanishCulture: The Conquestthrough the Lens of Textual and Visual Multiplicity (2013). Herrecent articles have appeared in Image & Narrative and Journal of NorthAfricanStudies. With Christina Ionescu, sheco-edited the book Visualizing the Text, fromManuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature (2017). Sheispresentlydocumenting the illustration of the Cid and continues herresearchinto the use of text in early modern painting.

Elizabeth ENGEL

Elisabeth Engel is a researchfellow at the GermanHistorical Institute in Washington DC. Shespecializes in North American historywithresearchinterests in colonial and transnational entanglements in the Atlantic world. Shereceivedher PhD in January 2014 from the GraduateSchool of North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute, FreieUniversität Berlin, and has worked as an assistant professor at the departments of North American history of the UniversitätzuKöln, Kassel and FreieUniversität Berlin and as a visitingscholar at Columbia University (NYC), Université de Montréal, and the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). Her first monograph, EncounteringEmpire:African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900-1939 (Stuttgart 2015), wasawarded the Franz Steiner Prize for outstandingmanuscripts in the history of transatlantic relations. Shecurrentlyworks on researchprojectthat explore African American missionaryphotography and discourses on race and the 'American Negro' in the ecumenicalmovement in the twentiethcentury. Sheisalsoworking on a second book project, which traces how notions of riskwereconstructed and inscribedinto the everyday routines of revolutionaryAmericans as the British imperial power retreated.

 Dominique JUHE-BEAULATON

Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton (historienne, UMR 7206 du CNRS-Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) s’intéresse à l’évolution des paysages en Afrique de l’ouest, dans une zone de contact forêt/savane (Dahomey Gap). Elle a particulièrement étudié les processus de création patrimoniale autour de certaines espèces végétales et de lieux particuliers que sont les sites sacrés naturels. Depuis 2014, elle travaille sur les collections des muséums qui représentent des sources nouvelles en histoire environnementale comme en histoire des sciences. Les métadonnées et les archives associées aux objets naturels peuvent informer sur des aspects méconnus des pratiques de terrain des scientifiques et de leurs « collaborateurs et intermédiaires locaux ».

 Samuel GICQUEL

Samuel Gicquel est agrégé d'histoire et maître de conférences à l'université Rennes 2. Ses recherches portent sur l'histoire religieuse au XIX^e siècle et plus précisément sur le clergé catholique. Sa thèse, intitulée Prêtres de Bretagne au XIX^e siècle, a été publiée aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes en 2008.

Jean-Michel VASQUEZ

Jean-Michel Vasquez, né en 1969, marié et père de 2 enfants. Docteur en histoire contemporaine depuis 2007, chercheur associé au LARHRA (équipe RESEA). Enseignant dans un lycée public à Lyon. Chargé de cours à l'IEP de Lyon et à l'université Lyon III Jean Moulin. Domaines de recherche : la mission chrétienne et la colonisation contemporaine, les rapports que chacune entretient avec la géographie, les représentations cartographiques en général. 

 Brandy WATTS

Brandy Watts is currently pursuing a graduate degree in the MLIS program at University of California, Los Angeles. Her background includescuratorialworkwith the plant science research collection at the William and Lynda SteereHerbarium as well as of the photograph collection at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden. Ms.Wattsalsoholds a Masters of Fine Art in lens-based media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has a forthcoming book titledThe Field Photographs of Alain H. Liogier, which will be released through NYBG Press later this year.

Chris WINGFIELD

Chris Wingfield is Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology&Anthropology, University of Cambridge, withresponsibility for World Archaeology. Beforehe came to Cambridge in late 2012, heworked as an associatelecturer at the Open University, a researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and a curator at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and. He didhis BA and MPhil at the University of Oxford and his PhD at the University of Birmingham.Chris’s research focuses on museum collections, and the researchpotentialthey have as material assemblages. Following an AHRC networking project on British MissionaryHeritagefromAfrica and the Pacific, herecentlypublishedTrophies, Relics and Curios? - a collection of short essaysexploring artefacts involved in missionaryencounters. His PhD focused on the collection of the London

  Laurick ZERBINI

Maitresse de conférences en histoire des arts d’Afrique subsaharienne, Université Lyon 2, Membre du LARHRA, axe Croyances et Religions, Laurick Zerbini est l'auteure d'articles sur les musées missionnaires catholiques et la patrimonialisation des cultures africaines.