Beyond Social Inclusion
Principal Investigator: Phaedra Livingstone
Phaedra Livingstone is currently completing a book on practices of social inclusion and exclusion, across museum functions. The next phase in this project is the application of that prior work through action research in a museum planning case study.
Glass Ceilings for Glass Boxes
Principal investigator: Phaedra Livingstone
In this workforce study, Phaedra Livingstone is analyzing North American data related to gender and participation in museum management. In collaboration with UO campus museums, she is also conducting a study on professional perspectives on engaging greater diversity.
Imaginary Places
Principal Investigator: Phaedra Livingstone
Responding to Donna Haraway's assertions about gendered gaze in diorama viewing, this project includes studies on visitor perceptions and habitat dioramas (in New York, Victoria, and Toronto), focusing on the African Savannah diorama on display until recently at the Royal Ontario Museum.