Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts, Western University
Biography
Dr. Camille-Mary Sharp researches the relation between museums and resource extraction, including sponsorship by oil and mining industries and growing protests around these partnerships. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto, and she was a 2022-2024 Faculty Fellow in the Program in Museum Studies at New York University. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate with the Centre for Sustainable Curating at Western University, documenting the practices of oil museums to understand how the contemporary preservation of petroleum heritage can enrich discussions of sustainable museology.
Selected publications
Sharp, C-M. (2024). Architectural and Curatorial Extensions of Extraction at the Royal Ontario Museum. Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), 49(1), 107-116.
Armstrong, E. & Sharp, C-M. (2024). Editorial: Mobilizing Museum Minerals. Museum & Society 22(2-3), 1-15.
Sharp, C-M. (2022). ‘Shell is proud to present…The Spirit Sings’: Museum Sponsorship and Public Relations in Oil Country. Museum & Society 20(2), 172-189.
Sharp, C-M. (2022). Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production. Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 13(1), 13-35.
