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 | Name: Dr Mark Nesbitt Honorary Title: Honorary Associate Professor Email: m.nesbitt@ucl.ac.uk IoA staff nominator’s name and email address: Rodney Harrison r.harrison@ucl.ac.uk |
- Profile
IoA involvement:
Mark is a Senior Research Leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and curator of Kew’s Economic Botany Collection. His collaborations with the UCL Institute of Archaeology span his interests in botanical collections, and the history of plant use. They include use of the Economic Botany Collection for teaching and as reference material for archaeobotany, provision of projects for object conservation students, and teaching and placements for students in Museum Studies and other aspects of cultural heritage.
- Publications
Selected recent publications
- Driver, F., Nesbitt, M. and Cornish, C. (eds). 2021. Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation. London: UCL Press.
- Nesbitt, M., B. Curtis and A. Mills. 2020. From maker to museum: Polynesian barkcloth at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pp. 231-46 in F. Lennard & A. Mills (eds), Material approaches to Polynesian barkcloth: Cloth, collections, communities. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Walker, K. & M. Nesbitt. 2019. Just the tonic: the natural history of tonic water. Kew Press.
- Nesbitt, M. 2018. Botany in Victorian Jamaica. In T. Barringer & W. Modest (eds), Victorian Jamaica. Duke University Press, pp. 209-239.
- Nesbitt, M. & C. Cornish. 2016. Seeds of industry and empire: economic botany collections between nature and culture. Journal of Museum Ethnography 29: 53-70.
