Mirjam Brusius

Dr Mirjam Brusius is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford. She holds degrees in Art History (Berlin) and History and Philosophy of Science (University of Cambridge). Her first books revisited the early history of photography, in particular the scholarly archive and network of the photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot. Her current research concerns the history of collecting, archaeology, heritage, museums across Modern Europe and the Middle East as well as the history and theory of photography from a global perspective. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz — Max-Planck-Institut.