Professor Christopher Morton

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Professor of Museum Anthropology / Deputy Director and Head of Curatorial, Research and Teaching, Pitt Rivers Museum

Christopher Morton (MSt MA DPhil, Oxf) trained in history and social and cultural anthropology, carrying out fieldwork in the Okavango Delta region of northern Botswana in 1999-2000. Since then his research has focused on the relationship between photography and anthropology, photographic collections and histories in Africa, Australia and India, collections histories and museology.

Besides being responsible for the Pitt Rivers Museum's extensive photograph, manuscript, film and sound collections, Professor Morton supervises research students working on photographic and general museum topics. Professor Morton is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK.

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Email: christopher.morton@prm.ox.ac.uk

Hannah Eastham

Margaux Zandona

Brook Andrew (The Ruskin School of Art)

Selected past DPhil students

Noel Lobley (St Cross College)
The social biography of ethnomusicological field recordings (2010)

Jaanika Vider (St Peter's College)
Marginal anthropology? Rethinking Maria Czaplicka and the development of British anthropology from a material history perspective