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Chris Wingfield is an Associate Professor in the Arts of Africa at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia. He joined the SRU in September 2018 after roles as Curator at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (2012–2018) and Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (2004–2006). He holds a DPhil from the University of Birmingham (2012), MPhil from the University of Oxford (2002), and B.A. from Oxford (2001).
Research Interests: Wingfield’s work focuses on the history of museums and missionary collections, including their entanglements with colonial histories and visual cultures. He has conducted fieldwork across southern Africa, England, Australia, and Jamaica, emphasizing global material heritage and decolonial practices. His recent projects include a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a digital monograph on the London Missionary Society (2024–2025) and research on Polynesian missionary collections at the British Museum (2023–2027).
Key Projects: Notable projects include the Relational Museum Project, Making Things from Animals (British Museum), and Vibes Project exploring West African musical connections. He has held fellowships at the University of Cape Town (2017) and published widely on missionary archives, material culture, and museum ethics.
Awards and Roles: He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Collections, Trustee of the Collections Trust, and Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His awards include the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2024) and South African National Research Foundation Fellowship (2017).
Teaching: At UEA, he teaches modules on art, material culture, and African archaeology, including Makers and Making, Race and Visual Culture, and Arts and Archaeology of Africa.
