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name: Conal McCarthy
about: Conal McCarthy is the program director in the School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has degrees in English, Art History, Museum Studies, and te reo Maori. He has strong links with museums, art galleries, and heritage organizations around New Zealand, and has worked in a variety of professional roles including education and public programs, interpretation, governance, collections and curatorial work. His academic research interests include museum history, theory and practice, exhibition history, Maori visual culture, and contemporary heritage issues. McCarthy has published widely on the historical and contemporary Maori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Maori: A history of Conal McCarthy is the program director in the School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has degrees in English, Art History, Museum Studies, and te reo Maori. He has strong links with museums, art galleries, and heritage organizations around New Zealand, and has worked in a variety of professional roles including education and public programs, interpretation, governance, collections and curatorial work. His academic research interests include museum history, theory and practice, exhibition history, Maori visual culture, and contemporary heritage issues. McCarthy has published widely on the historical and contemporary Maori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display (2007), Museums and Maori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice (2011) and Museum practice: The contemporary museum at work (2015) in the series International Handbooks of Museum Studies. (Source: Amazon.com) ...more