Research Director
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere is the founding Director of the Sainsbury Institute. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998. Her research interests include, Japanese contemporary craft expression, Japanese manga, early modern to contemporary ceramics in East Asia and trade networks, the history of archaeology and collecting things Japan in Asia and in Europe. She spent three years on secondment as a Visiting Professor in Cultural Resource Studies at Tokyo University (2006-2009). From Summer 2011 she is Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute. She is currently on a two-year secondment to the British Museum.
Current Research
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere's current research includes completing a manuscript for the British Museum Press entitled Four Hundred Years of Japanese Porcelain based on the British Museum holdings, to be published in 2010. She is currently working with an important Japanese manga artist exploring how he interprets the Japanese archaeological past through the medium of manga. The manga on the British Museum that are the fruits of this collaboration will be published in September 2011. The book entitled Professor Munakata's Adventures in the British Museum, published by the British Museum Press, addresses the issue of repatriation and the debate around the ownership and display of a nation's cultural heritage.
Contact
64 The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH , United Kingdom
E: n.rousmaniere@sainsbury-institute.org
T: +44 (0)1603-597507
F: +44 (0)1603-625011