Dr Mirjam Brusius (PhD History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) is a historian of science and colonialism. Her research focuses on the circulation of objects and images in and between Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia; from the movement of ancient artefacts in indigenous contexts in the Ottoman Empire and Persia into the racial hierarchies and archives of Western museums, to the trajectories of photographic technologies out of Europe and into the Islamicate world. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, KHI Florence, and MPIWG in Berlin. As a visiting fellow she worked with collaborators in Sydney, Melbourne, New Delhi, Mumbai, Tehran, New York City, and Accra, where in 2021 she was co-Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Fellows Group ‘The 4R (Restitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation). Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?’ at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of Museum Detox and the Global Young Academy. In 2022 she won the prestigious Dan David Prize. Combining historical research with curatorial approaches, Mirjam co-founded 100 Histories in Kingston in 2019.
100 Histories of 100 Worlds in One Object 