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Bonnie Rick

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Description

I am University Lecturer in Museology in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki, where I teach on museum history, collection work, and community engagement, among other things. My research interests include museum and heritage ethics, object biographies, decolonisation and provenance issues, museum collection histories, and sensory archaeology. I am a founding member of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (2018-25), as well as steering committee member in the Una Europa focus area on Cultural Heritage and in the Helsinki Insitute of Sustainability Sciences. I recently led two funded projects. The project "Making Home Abroad: Understanding Migrant Experiences and Heritage Implementation in Finland," funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, engaged communities with stored-away Middle Eastern objects in Finnish museum collections through 3D scanning technologies, teaching toolkits, and pop-up museums. The project "Religious Responses to Climate Change in the Southern Levant," funded by a UH 3-year project, studied the impact of past climatic changes on the rise and fall of Jewish ritual purification baths in Hasmonean-Roman Judaea through hydrological modelling and contextual archaeological analysis. In addition, I was also a co-PI of the NOS-HS Workshop series "Changing Hands, Changing Meanings: Researching Cultural Heritage Trafficking in the Nordic Region," in coordination with researchers at the universities of Agder, Stockholm and Turku. (Photo by Lauri Laine.)

Affiliations

University of Helsinki
University Lecturer in Museology
Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts
2021 - present
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University of Helsinki
University Researcher
Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts
2019 - 2021
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University of Helsinki
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology
2014 - 2018
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University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Visiting Fellow
Frankel Centre for Judaic Studies
2017
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KU Leuven
PhD Student
Department of Archaeology, Art History and Musicology
2009 - 2013
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Education (3)

PhD
KU Leuven
MA
Leiden University
BA
Leiden University

Publications (53)

2023
The Ilves Collection
Käsikirjoitukset vailla omistushistoriaa – miksi ongelma on myös meidän
Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East: An Introduction
DOI
10.33134/HUP-19-1

Research data (2)

2021
Making Home Abroad: Printable 3D digitizations and instructions (in Finnish)
Open access
Making Home Abroad 3D digitizations
Open access

Activities and awards (1)

Academic qualification
Title of Docent in Archaeology
University of Helsinki
2021 - present
International collaboration: No