Henrietta Hammant is a museum anthropologist with a love of the polar regions. She holds degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Recently, she has completed her PhD in the Anthropology of Heritage at the University of Reading, with a focus on Heroic Age Antarctic explorers and their representation in British museums. She has worked in museums across Canada and the UK, including as Assistant Curator at the Itsanitaq Museum in Churchill, Manitoba, and Collections Coordinator at the Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. She has visited Antarctic twice as a cruise ship lecturer, receiving audience reviews of 93%. She is now an Impact Fellow at the University of Nottingham, working to decolonise Nottingham City Museums and Galleries’ collection of North American ethnographic objects.

Awards, Qualifications & Memberships: 

PhD in the Anthropology of Heritage (University of Reading)
MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (University of Oxford)
BA in Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Cambridge)
Member of the Museums Association and the Museum Ethnographers Group