Ballot Archive

21 Feb 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Lisa Skogh

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD,Art History (Stockholm)2013;MA(The Bard Graduate Center,NYC)2002;BA (Lund)1999

Profession or occupation

Independent scholar

Grounds for election

Lisa Skogh, a Fellow in the V&A’s Research Department since 2014, is working on The Kunstkammer and the Early Modern Consort. She was project leader for ‘A New Salon: What was Europe’ funded by the British Academy Rising Star Award, a programme of discussions held in the V&A’s new European Galleries. She previously worked as a Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; at Rosenborg, Copenhagen, at the National Museum, Stockholm. Publications include Material Worlds. Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the Arts (Stockholm: The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, 2013; With Kris Neville eds., Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in 17th-century Northern Europe. 2017. With Vera Keller, The Varied Role of the Amateur in the Early Modern Europe, Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. (no 2) 2016.She serves on the Steering Committee of the Society of the History of Collecting and the Baroque Ivory Study Group since 2010

Signatories

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