Short Bio: Monica Eileen Patterson聽is聽an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at 杏吧原创 University. She received her doctorate in聽Anthropology and History and a certificate in Museum Studies from the聽University of Michigan. Patterson is coeditor of聽Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and Questioning Discipline (University of Michigan Press, 2011). As a scholar, curator, and activist, she is particularly interested in the intersections of memory, childhood, and violence in postcolonial Africa, and the ways in which they are represented and engaged in contemporary public spheres.
Research: Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as Counter-Museum, in Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2011); Childhood, Memory and Gap: Reflections from an Anthrohistorian on George Perec鈥檚 鈥榃 or the Memory of Childhood,鈥� in Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and Questioning Discipline (University of Michigan Press, 2011); The Ethical Murk of Using Testimony in Oral Historical Research in South Africa, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013);