Who We Are

Formally, the committee members serve as the trustees of the organisation, initiating and overseeing most of MEG’s activities. But in practice, MEG often feels more like a collective – a dynamic, supportive group of peers who share ideas, challenges, and solutions. Committee members are united by a commitment to learning from one another and fostering collaboration across the museum ethnography community.
Meghan Backhouse
Chair
Lead Curator, Global Collections, National Museums Liverpool
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Faye Belsey
Secretary
Deputy Head of Object Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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Joel Fagan
Treasurer
Relationship Manager, Rethinking Relationships, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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Gayathri Anand
Membership Secretary
Collections Curator, CV Life
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Renee Keeffe
Events Officer
Art Facilitator and Co-Curator at the UCL Cultural Lab
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Aayushi Gupta
Web Officer
Research Assistant, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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Haidam Zeme
Co-Social Media Officer
PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India & University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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Avery Brock
Co-Social Media Officer
Recently completed the MA in Museum Studies at UCL
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Erin Messenger
Newsletter Officer
Economic Botany Collection Manager, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Tamara Price
Archives Officer
Heritage Policy Advisor at Civil Service Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Amy Shakespeare
Repatriation Officer
International Repatriation Specialist, Association on American Indian Affairs. Founded Routes to Return
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Adam Jaffer
Journal Subscription Officer
Curator, World Cultures, Leeds Museums and Galleries
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Join MEG
We welcome new members from all backgrounds. Whether you are part of an Indigenous community, work as an educator, practitioner, or artist, or are involved in the research or care of world cultures collections in museums, MEG offers a network of support, exchange, and collaboration.