Sofia Lago Email & Phone Number

To steal from my profile for The Cooper Union, where I will begin working as an adjunct professor in Fall 2022:I am receiving my PhD in history in Spring 2022 from the University of Bristol. My doctoral research centers on the mercurial relationship between Britain and Partitioned Poland from 1795-1900, which acts as a case study to examine the many angles in which a hegemonic culture could impose a borderland identity onto another people under the social and political oppression of others. My studies have always been interdisciplinary, and frequently combine a critical analysis of written sources and practical research with museum and archival collections. I received an MA in Museum Studies at Instituto Lorenzo de' Medici in 2018, where my thesis focused on nineteenth-century practices of collecting verbal folklore in Northern Europe. In 2016, I graduated from Stockton University with a BA in history, where I wrote my final thesis on the use of written folktales in the Maori renaissance in late twentieth-century New Zealand. I have worked at eight cultural institutions in three countries and three states, mainly in the roles of collections manager and curator. Broadly, my future research interests include, but are not limited to: the nineteenth-century histories of science and the environment, museology, colonialism and imperialism, and Britain and Eastern Europe. I am particularly interested in studies of the history of science and the environment that can contribute to the ongoing discourses surrounding climate justice and the decolonization of universities and museums.