Visitors of the Pitt Rivers Museum

The purpose of the Pitt Rivers Museum is to assemble, preserve, and exhibit the Pitt Rivers Collection and to promote the public understanding of anthropology and world archaeology, and their teaching and research, based on the museum’s collections.

 

 

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Membership as at HT2025 is as follows

  Name Office or Appointing Body Until beginning of
[1] Professor Jane Shaw, Harris Manchester a chair who shall be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor MT 2025
[2]

Mr Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Librarian and Professorial Fellow 

the Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) ex officio
 [3] tbc one of the Proctors or the Assessor as may be agreed between them ex officio
[4-7]

Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE (Medical Sciences)

Vacancy (MPLS)

Vacancy (Social Sciences)

Vacancy (Humanities)

up to four persons appointed by Council, ensuring a balance of representation from across the four academic divisions MT 2026
 [8] Janet Stott, Acting Director, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford  the Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History ex officio
 [9] Professor Clare Harris, Head of Department, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford the Chair of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography or his or her nominee ex officio
 [10] Professor Shadreck Chirikure, Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, Director of RLAHA  a person appointed by the School of Archaeology.   

Co-opted (ensuring that the number of external Visitors is not greater than the number of internal Visitors, the Visitors may co-opt up to six additional members, who may be internal or external, and who need not be members of Congregation to provide specific skills not covered by existing appointments)

 

Ms Evie O'Brien, external 

Dr Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, Senior Curator in World Archaeology, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Ms Melanie Keen, Director, Wellcome Collection

Ms Iliane Ogilvie Thompson, Chair – Development Advisory Board, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford  

Dr Christopher (Chris) Morton

Ensuring that the number of external Visitors is not greater than the number of internal Visitors, the Visitors may co-opt up to six additional members, who may be internal or external, and who need not be members of Congregation to provide specific skills not covered by existing appointments. 

 

Secretary: Beth Joynson

Regulations


For the regulations of the Committee for the Visitors of the Pitt Rivers Museum please click here:

Regulations

Contact us


Dr Laura Van Broekhoven

Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum

prm@prm.ox.ac.uk