Colin Sterling is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, educator, and (occasional) curator based in Amsterdam. His work explores the social, political and ecological dimensions of heritage and museums in the past and the present. He is the author of Heritage, Photography and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of four scholarly collections, including Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020) and Aesthetics of Geopower: Contested Planetary Imaginaries (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). He has published over fifty articles, essays, book chapters, reviews and other texts in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, exhibition catalogues and magazines. In 2021 Colin co-curated the international design competition Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which culminated in an exhibition at COP26 in Glasgow. He is currently Assistant Professor of Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads the BA programme Global Arts, Culture and Politics. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam Colin was a post-doctoral researcher and early career leadership fellow at University College London. His research has been funded by – amongst others – the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, Horizon Europe, the British Academy, and the Dutch Research Council. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal Museums & Social Issues.