Gabriela Nicolescu is an Exhibition Maker, a Writer and a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published in Critique of Anthropology, the Journal of Design History, the Journal of Material Culture, World Art, East Central Europe and Anthropology & Aging.
Nicolescu’s scholarship throws light on what happens to a globally significant collection through decades of social and political transformation. Her thinking on the power of objects, styles and collections will galvanise students of culture everywhere. * Adam Drazin, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK * Masterfully examines aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the turbulent monarchist, socialist, and post-socialist biography of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant. Nicolescu’s analysis of the museum as a vital, porous actor within society is engaging and original. * Margaret H. Beissinger, Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Princeton University, USA *