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ProfessorJennifer Barrett

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Artists and museums

Summary of opportunity:

Professor Jennifer Barrett publishes on museums, culture, art, and the public sphere. Her monograph, Museums and the Public Sphere, was published in 2011 (Wiley-Blackwell) and her co-authored monograph Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (with J. Millner, Ashgate Publishing) was published in 2014. Her current research examines the concept of universalism as it relates to museums, cultural practice and human rights.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

  • The concept of public and how it is used in discussions on public space and public culture
  • Human rights and contemporary museums
  • Artists and museums

 

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Dancing with the bear: the politics of Australian national cultural policy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How do museums support the conservation and the revitalisation of Indigenous languages in Taiwan