Kirsty Màiri Robertson

Kirsty Màiri Robertson is a Canadian scholar, curator, and writer who holds the Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability. She is a Professor at Western University in London, Ontario, where she directs both the Museum and Curatorial Studies program and the Centre for Sustainable Curating. She earned her PhD in Visual and Material Culture at Queen’s University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Robertson’s research focuses on the intersections of art, activism, environmental sustainability, and museums. She is the author of Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture (2019) and is involved in collaborative projects such as the Synthetic Collective, which investigates plastics pollution, and A Museum for Future Fossils, a curatorial initiative responding to ecological crisis.
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