Mirjam Brusius

Mirjam Brusius is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute London. Her research is on the history of collecting and photography in Modern Europe and the Middle East. In 2018 she was awarded a British Science Association Award Lecture.[1]

Education

Brusius completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Cambridge, researching on the antiquarian interests of William Henry Fox Talbot.[2]

Career

Her research is on the history of collecting and visual culture, particularly photography, in Modern Europe and the Middle East.[2] Her research interests are in the history of photography, and how it relates to the history of science and colonialism.[3] She is an Early Career Fellow with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.[4]

She catalogued the scholarly notebooks of William Henry Fox Talbot at the British Library. This work, combined with her PhD research, culminated in a conference, William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography, held at the University of Oxford in 2013, and published as a book in 2013.[2]

In 2016 Brusius won the Aby Warburg Prize for Early Career Researchers, awarded every four years by the city of Hamburg, Germany, for her contribution to the scholarship of Aby Warburg through her research.[5][6]

Brusius was awarded a British Science Association's award lecture in 2018. She will give the Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture for Science and the Arts, at the British Science Festival in Hull in September 2018.[1]

References
  1. "Top researchers recognised ahead of British Science Festival". British Science Association. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  2. "Meet our Advisory Board". Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  3. "Dr Mirjam Brusius". German Historical Institute London. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  4. "Researchers | TORCH". torch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  5. "Mirjam Brusius receives Aby Warburg Prize". britishphotohistory.ning.com. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  6. Oneltd. "Trinity College – JRF awarded Aby Warburg Prize". www.trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
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