Paul Wolff Mitchell is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, part of a consortium project across Dutch universities and museums called “Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums.” His research concerns the practices and politics of collecting, curating, and crafting knowledge from human bodies and human remains, with a focus on race science and anatomical collection from the mid-18th through the early 20th centuries.
