E-Mail: mi54@soas.ac.uk
Mizuho Ikeda is a research associate at the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS University of London, and serves as a curatorial consultant for exhibitions at the Museum of World Cultures, Riyadh. Her research focuses on museum collections and cultural heritage in Southeast Asia, with particular interest in religiosity, diverse voices, representation, and the process through which decisions are made about what is preserved, recognised, and remembered. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Waseda University in 2018. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where she examined the display of Hindu and Buddhist art within the context of the universal museum. She also served as project curator for the Burma to Myanmar exhibition at the British Museum and as heritage documentation manager for the curation of the Maritime Asia Heritage Survey at Kyoto University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Ikeda, Mizuho and Alexandra Green. “A Kaleidoscope of Cultures and Peoples: Burma to Myanmar at the British Museum”. Orientations 54, no. 6 (2023): 44–53.
- Ikeda, Mizuho. “Towards an Understanding of Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Management: A Case Study from Phrae Province, Thailand”. In Eur ASEAA 14 Vol. II: Material Culture and Heritage, edited by Helen Lewis, 172–182. Archaeopress, 2020.
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