Zoe Cormack

Visiting Researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology


Zoe Cormack is an historian and anthropologist whose research focuses on the history of collecting, colonialism and the contemporary uses of heritage in Eastern Africa. She is currently a visiting researcher at MAA with the University of Cambridge Research and Collections Programme ‘Ownership Research Growth Network’.

Black and white image showing a view of Kodok from the Nile River

How do you research a colonial era collection?

by | 06.04.22

Visiting researcher Zoe Cormack talks about her research on the colonial histories of collections at Cambridge, the previous owners of African objects now stored at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the new questions and connections this research is bringing to light. As a visiting researcher in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in Cambridge, I am investigating… Read full article