Anna Weinreich
    Weinreich

    I am a socio-cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. New York University 2023) and assistant professor in the Department of Arts and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, where I teach in a Master’s program in Museum Studies and a BA in Global Arts, Culture and Politics. My research employs a combination of collections-based methods and collaborative fieldwork with Indigenous Australian artists and knowledge holders to explore intersections between contemporary cultural practice, colonial histories of collecting, and the politics of memory in global contexts. Extending across multiple archives, ethnography, and the work of contemporary Indigenous artists, my doctoral research examined the production of decolonial memory in the context of transforming relationships between European ethnographic museums and Indigenous cultural activists in Australia. The first results of this work have been published in ngargee (2024), a volume bringing together collaborative, Indigenous-led research with a focus on Southeast Australian Aboriginal art. Before moving to Amsterdam, I co-curated the Berlin edition of the international travelling exhibition Songlines, served as assistant curator of the Oceania collection at the State Museums of Berlin, and coordinated the international research partnership ‘Berlin’s Australian Archive: Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History’ at the University of Potsdam.