Dr Eve Haddow

Eve Haddow (MA, PhD) is curator with responsibility for the Pacific Islands, Australia, and Americas ethnography collections.

Eve’s research focuses on material culture from western Pacific Islands, missionary collecting and photography, and histories of anthropology and archaeology, particularly narratives that may have been previously marginalised or overlooked. She is also interested in material culture connected with plantation histories in Pacific Islands and Australia. Eve is driven by an aim of making collections material more accessible and visible to communities and other researchers, and in highlighting the agency and voices of Pacific Islanders and other Indigenous and First Nations peoples within museum and archival collections. As a curator she is passionate about exploring ways of increasing connections between contemporary communities and MAA’s diverse collections, seeking opportunities to develop collaborative projects for embedding contemporary community perspectives and stories.

Before joining MAA, Eve was Lecturer in Museum Studies at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She worked with colleagues at Queensland Museum and members of the Australian South Sea Islander community on a collaborative research project titled ‘Archaeology, Collections, and Australian South Sea Islander Lived Identities’. Eve was also previously a research officer and archivist with the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Prior to moving to Australia in 2015 to embark on PhD research, Eve held several positions in the museums sector in Scotland, including working as a project curator based at National Museums Scotland researching Pacific collections in Scottish museums.