Manage my profile
|
Personal bio
Christina J. Hodge is Academic Curator and Collections Manager of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) of the Stanford Archaeology Center, a museum collection of over 100,000 archaeological, ethnographic, and art objects from California and around the world. Hodge an interdisciplinary museum anthropologist, historical archaeologist, and curator working in critical museum and heritage studies. Her research program investigates university-related collections in order to expose hidden dynamics of race, gender, and agency, focusing on intersections of personal identity and institutional authority. Insights into the legitimization of knowledge inform contemporary challenges to racist, white supremacist, and patriarchal norms. She promotes curation as a method of practice-based and inquiry-driven research. In this work, Hodge explicitly theorizes anthropological collections, analyzing practices--including digital practices--from a decolonial perspective. Hodge's training is in anthropological, social, and interpretive archaeologies and the multicultural material worlds of early modern America. |