Mills, Andy (Dr.)
Andy Mills is curator for Archaeology and World Cultures at The Hunterian. He is a world art historian, ethnohistorian and anthropologist, with specialist interests in Oceanic art, collections provenance, missionary collecting, textiles, and arms and armour, among other things; he is the co-editor, with Tom Crowley, of Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum. During the project Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place, Andy’s research focused on historical change in the arts of Polynesian barkcloth, analysing the materials and processes of tapa-making, and exploring the histories of barkcloth in the world’s museums.
Miniaci, Gianluca (Dr.)
Gianluca Miniaci is Senior Researcher in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL – London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He has held research fellowships at the British Museum, Petrie Museum, University of Salerno, and Musée du Louvre.
Mischka, Doris (Prof. dr.)
Doris Mischka is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Previously, she worked at the Universities of Göttingen, Kiel, Bologna and Cologne. Her publications are devoted mainly to the Linear Pottery culture, the Funnel Beaker culture and Cucuteni-Tripyllia. She is also interested in landscape archaeology and has worked on lithics and pottery. Her most recent publications include an exhaustive study of the Neolithic burials in Flintbek (Das Neolithikum in Flintbek, Kr. Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein. Eine feinchronologische Studie zur Besiedlungsgeschichte anhand von Gräbern, 2022), and co-editorship of a landmark introductory work on the Neolithic of Bavaria (Steinzeit in Bayern. Das Handbuch in 2 Bänden, 2023, with T. Uthmeier). Currently she conducts fieldwork in Romania.
Mishmastnehi, Moslem
Moslem Mishmastnehi is an archaeologist, with a background in cultural heritage conservation, working on various interdisciplinary topics. He has conducted extensive research on the history of Persian windmills and the production of their millstones, using both archaeological and archaeometric methods.
Modest, Wayne (Prof. dr.)
Wayne Modest is the Head of the Research Center for Material Culture, the research institute of the Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, Africa Museum and Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. He is also Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Mol, Angus A.A. (Dr.)
Angus Mol is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities. Here he teaches and does research, not only on how digital tools can be used in the study of cultures and societies, but also how digital media shape our engagement with the present and past. With a background in archaeology and as a co-founder of VALUE, his research and outreach specifically address the intersections of the past and video games. His previous publications have appeared at Sidestone Press and a number of international journals and handbooks. These include the first Interactive Past volume as well as work in theoretical and Caribbean archaeology and network studies. He also writes blogs and produces other media as Dr. Random on VALUE’s Interactive Pasts website.
Mols, Luitgard (Dr.)
Luitgard Mols is Curator for the Middle East, West, and Central Asia at the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden and an affiliated fellow at Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). She curated the exhibition Longing for Mecca. The Pilgrim’s Journey (2013-2014) at the NME. She lectures on Islamic art at the University of Amsterdam. Her research currently focuses on the material culture of the Hajj and Western Arabia and on private collectors of Islamic material culture in the Netherlands.
Mills, Andy (Dr.)
Andy Mills is curator for Archaeology and World Cultures at The Hunterian. He is a world art historian, ethnohistorian and anthropologist, with specialist interests in Oceanic art, collections provenance, missionary collecting, textiles, and arms and armour, among other things; he is the co-editor, with Tom Crowley, of Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum. During the project Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place, Andy’s research focused on historical change in the arts of Polynesian barkcloth, analysing the materials and processes of tapa-making, and exploring the histories of barkcloth in the world’s museums.
Miniaci, Gianluca (Dr.)
Gianluca Miniaci is Senior Researcher in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL – London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He has held research fellowships at the British Museum, Petrie Museum, University of Salerno, and Musée du Louvre.
Mischka, Doris (Prof. dr.)
Doris Mischka is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Previously, she worked at the Universities of Göttingen, Kiel, Bologna and Cologne. Her publications are devoted mainly to the Linear Pottery culture, the Funnel Beaker culture and Cucuteni-Tripyllia. She is also interested in landscape archaeology and has worked on lithics and pottery. Her most recent publications include an exhaustive study of the Neolithic burials in Flintbek (Das Neolithikum in Flintbek, Kr. Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein. Eine feinchronologische Studie zur Besiedlungsgeschichte anhand von Gräbern, 2022), and co-editorship of a landmark introductory work on the Neolithic of Bavaria (Steinzeit in Bayern. Das Handbuch in 2 Bänden, 2023, with T. Uthmeier). Currently she conducts fieldwork in Romania.
Mishmastnehi, Moslem
Moslem Mishmastnehi is an archaeologist, with a background in cultural heritage conservation, working on various interdisciplinary topics. He has conducted extensive research on the history of Persian windmills and the production of their millstones, using both archaeological and archaeometric methods.
Modest, Wayne (Prof. dr.)
Wayne Modest is the Head of the Research Center for Material Culture, the research institute of the Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, Africa Museum and Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. He is also Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Mol, Angus A.A. (Dr.)
Angus Mol is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities. Here he teaches and does research, not only on how digital tools can be used in the study of cultures and societies, but also how digital media shape our engagement with the present and past. With a background in archaeology and as a co-founder of VALUE, his research and outreach specifically address the intersections of the past and video games. His previous publications have appeared at Sidestone Press and a number of international journals and handbooks. These include the first Interactive Past volume as well as work in theoretical and Caribbean archaeology and network studies. He also writes blogs and produces other media as Dr. Random on VALUE’s Interactive Pasts website.
Mols, Luitgard (Dr.)
Luitgard Mols is Curator for the Middle East, West, and Central Asia at the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden and an affiliated fellow at Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). She curated the exhibition Longing for Mecca. The Pilgrim’s Journey (2013-2014) at the NME. She lectures on Islamic art at the University of Amsterdam. Her research currently focuses on the material culture of the Hajj and Western Arabia and on private collectors of Islamic material culture in the Netherlands.
