Michelle Horwood

Michelle Horwood is a museum curator, scholar, teacher and cultural heritage manager with an academic background in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies. She gained a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington working with Ngā Paerangi iwi from the Whanganui River with her research continuing her focus on building relationships between communities and museums. This research resulted in the Routledge publication Sharing Authority in the Museum: Distributed Objects, Reassembled Relationships (2019). She is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow teaching Museum & Heritage Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Degrees

  • PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 2015
  • MA Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • BA/PGDip Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Fields of research

  • Anthropology
  • Critical heritage and museum studies

Publications

Horwood, M. 2019. Sharing Authority in the Museum: Distributed Objects, Reassembled Relationships. Routledge: London.

Horwood, M. 2018. Going Digital in the GLAM Sector: ICT Innovations & Collaborations for Taonga Māori in Aotearoa, in Whanga, H, M Apperley, and TT Keegan (ed.s), Te Whare Hangarau Māori: Language, Culture and Technology, University of Waikato e-book: Hamilton.

Shannon, J, S Jisgang, N Collison, TH Herewini, E Hollinger, M Horwood, RW Preucel, A Shelton and P Tapsell. 2017. Ritual Processes of Repatriation: A Discussion. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, 5: 84-94.

Horwood, M and C Wilson. 2008. Te Ara Tapu Sacred Journeys – Whanganui Regional Museum Taonga Maori Collection. Random House, NZ.

Horwood, LM, BF Leach and JM Davidson. 1998. Prehistoric and Historic Maori Fishermen of Mana Island, Cook Strait, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, 18: 5-24.

Horwood, M. 1995. Oral History and the Whanganui Regional Museum Experience. Oral History in NZ, NOHANZ.

Horwood, M. 1993. ‘Rich Collections’. Heritage New Zealand, 43: 7.

Horwood, M. 1991. Prehistoric & 19th Century Maori Settlement on Mana Island, Cook Strait; Excavation at Site R26/141, New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 13: 5-40.