# James Delbourgo
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james delbourgo (1972) is a historian of science, collecting and museums. He is the James Westfall Thompson Chair and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University.Delbourgo was born in Britain to Italian parents and educated at the University of East Anglia, Cambridge (Christ's College), Penn and Columbia. He previously taught at McGill in Montreal, where he directed the program in History and Philosophy of Science; was Visiting Professor of History of Science at Harvard in 2016; and is an associate of that department.
80. British Museum Curator Sushma Jansari Shares Stories and Experiments of Decolonising Museums
The British Museum’s South Asia Collection is full of Indian objects. Dr. Sushma Jansari, Tabor Foundation Curator of South Asia at the British Museum, does not want visitors to overlook the violence of how these objects were brought to the UK to be held in a museum.
So for the 2017 renovation of…
James Delbourgo, “Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane” (Allen Lane, 2017)
James Delbourgo‘s new book Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane (Allen Lane, 2017) tells the fascinatingly complex and controversial story of Hans Sloane, the man whose collection and last will laid the foundation for the British Museum, the first national, free, public museu…
Collecting the World: The Origin of the British Museum
Open to the public with free admission, the British Museum is a collection of unmatched grandeur, boasting incredible artifacts from pilfered pieces of the Parthenon to the language lover’s Rosetta Stone.
It’s hard to believe it had its beginning in the efforts of just one man, a fellow by the name…
James Delbourgo, “Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane” (Allen Lane, 2017)
James Delbourgo‘s new book Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane (Allen Lane, 2017) tells the fascinatingly complex and controversial story of Hans Sloane, the man whose collection and last will laid the foundation for the British Museum, the first national, free, public museu…
107. Crypto and Museums Part 1
In November 2021, an extremely rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution was put up for auction at Sotheby's in New York, attracting a unique bidder: ConstitutionDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization. This group had formed just weeks earlier with the sole purpose of acquiring the Constitu…
S10 E34: Austin Channing Brown and James Delbourgo
In this episode, meet author and speaker Austin Channing Brown, author of Full of Myself, and historian James Delbourgo, author of A Noble Madness. Learn what inspired each of these authors to write their books, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
Full of Myself by Austin Ch…
The history of collecting
A lot of us will remember collecting stamps or football stickers or stationary or something of that ilk as a child.
But, is that a modern phenomenon, or is it something inherent that we have seen throughout history?
James Delbourgo is Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of ‘A Nobl…
Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them
James Delbourgo, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of A Noble Madness: the Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now, talks about:
Why he's written about contemporary art so extensively, as a history academic who's very interested in the present, going to galleries and …
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